Quotes About Courage

That you're so bound up about writing tells me that writing is what you're here to do. And when people are here to do that, they almost always tell us something we need to hear. I want to know what you have inside you. I want to see the contours of your second beating heart. So write, Elissa Bassist. Not like a girl. Not like a boy. Write like a motherfucker. Yours,

That was my prayer: Fuckthemfuckthemfuckthem.

What if what made me do all those things everyone thought I shouldn't have done was what also had got me here? What

The father's job is to teach his children how to be warriors, to give them the confidence to get on the horse and ride into battle when it's necessary to do so. If you don't get that from your father, you have to teach yourself." "But—I think I have already,

was six," I said. "The father's job is to teach his children how to be warriors, to give them the confidence to get on the horse and ride into battle when it's necessary to do so. If you don't get that from your father, you have to teach yourself.

I probably wouldn't have been fearless enough to go on such a trip with so little money if I hadn't grown up without it.

I was not going to nod. Everything that had ever happened to me in my whole life was mixed into the cement that kept my head perfectly still

Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told.O I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave.

As if the answer to that question held the key to my success or failure at this—the hardest thing I'd ever done. I stopped in my tracks when that thought came into my mind, that hiking the PCT was the hardest thing I'd ever done. Immediately, I amended the thought. Watching my mother die and having to live without her, that was the hardest thing I'd ever done.

I felt like a hard-ass motherfucking Amazonian queen.

I came up with another reason to bolster my belief that this whole PCT hike had been an outlandishly stupid idea.

If your Nerve, deny you – Go above your Nerve – EMILY DICKINSON

Hoe wild het is, om alles te accepteren zoals het zich voordoet.

Kennedy Meadows

La paura genera paura. La forza genera forza.

I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me.

Who is tougher than me? No one.

When I had no roof I made Audacity my roof. ROBERT PINSKY, "Samurai Song

Each and every one of them had the courage to say, This is who I am even if you'll crucify me for it.

Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you'll put up a good fight and lose.

Be brave. Be authentic. Practice saying the word "love" to the people you love so when it matters the most to say it, you will.

Perhaps by now I'd come far enough that I had the guts to be afraid. When

This isn't about strength," said Pat. "And you may not be able to see this yet, but perhaps there will come a time—it could be years from now—when you'll need to get on your horse and ride into battle and you're going to hesitate. You're going to falter. To heal the wound your father made, you're going to have to get on that horse and ride into battle like a warrior.

I'm not afraid, I said, calling up my old mantra to calm my mind. But it didn't feel the same as it usually did to say it. Perhaps because that wasn't entirely true anymore. Perhaps by now I'd come far enough that I had the guts to be afraid.