Quotes About Courage

If fight or flight is the choice, it's way easier to fly.

already with needles inside. "Tig just

I'm saying when God slams a door on you it's probably a shitstorm. You're going to end up in rubble. But it's okay because without all that crap overhead, you're standing in the daylight.

People had to manage terrible truths.

it's the thing you fear most that walks beside you all the time.

It wasn't a matter of courage or dreams, but something a whole lot simpler. A pilot would call it ground orientation. I'd spent a long time circling above the clouds, looking for life, while Hallie was living it.

I was getting a dim comprehension of the difference between Hallie and me. It wasn't a matter of courage or dreams, but something a whole lot simpler. A pilot would call it ground orientation. I'd spent a long time circling above the clouds, looking for life, while Hallie was living it. The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.

He's that same kind of good like you are. Like there's some metal or something in you that won't melt down, no matter what.

It's the thing you fear most that walks beside you all the time.

The thing about Angus. We both had our crap to live with, and her way was to give no shit whether you liked how she was doing it, or not. But if I wanted to be a different type person and try for popular, she wasn't going to stand in my way. She was going to help. Not very usual.

Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember. Think of the vine that curls from the small square plot that was once my heart. That is the only marker you need. Move on. Walk forward into the light.

Red on! Depends much. So?

marched uphill to meet her demise.

All those hopes placed in such a precarious vessel.

Truth is objective. A man should be respected for telling it, not threatened.

So that was me promising Emmy that life is to be trusted. I knew better. I should have let her go with her gut: Never get back on the horse, because it's going to throw you every damn chance it gets.

I feared not, and grew accustomed to walking alone.

What a revelation, that I could carry my own parcel like any woman here!

She seemed like a person born to have sidewalks under her feet.

People hang on for dear life to that one, she thought: the fool they are right now.

Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.

Teach them to see evidence for themselves, and not to fear it." "To stand in the clear light of day

I wanted to tell them it's not just girls that end up inside four walls of hate and knuckles for breakfast, it can be anybody. Hate comes along and lays out the damn doormat and there you are. But I kept my mouth shut. It's safer knowing more about people than they know about you.

You have to get up every morning and decide again, in the cold lonely light of day, am I brave enough to stick this out?