Quotes About Courage

They could fall in love with fresh, new people, or they could have the courage and humility to tear off some essential layer of themselves and reveal to each other a whole new level of otherness, a level far beyond what sort of music they liked. It seemed to her everyone had too much self-protective pride to truly strip down to their souls in front of their long-term partners. It was easier to pretend there was nothing more to know, to fall into an easygoing companionship.

She said that sometimes you had to be brave enough to "point your life in a new direction.

Madeline, she realized, was one of those slightly dangerous people who jumped right in defending their friends and stirred up far bigger waves than the first tiny ripple.

Jane walked into the playground feeling a strange sense of calm. Perhaps she needed to learn from Madeline's example. No more avoiding confrontation. March up to your critics and bloody well tell them what you think.

In case she can't get what's in her head and her heart on the canvas. Maybe she's afraid of being afraid. That she'll be so paralyzed by fear she won't do a thing, she'll just stand there with her paintbrush, feeling like a fraud.

But she was so proud of Nick's uninhibited sociability, the way he could walk straight into a party full of people they didn't know and stick his hand out to a stranger and say, "I'm Nick. This is my wife, Alice." It was as though he had an amazing skill, like playing a complicated musical instrument, that Alice could never hope to master.

She sucked in her stomach, ready to take it like a man, or at least like a romance novelist capable of reading her own royalty statements.

filling her pockets with rocks before she waded out into life.

Madison rolled her eyes. "No. I won't care if people say mean things to me, because I'll be grown up. I can just say, 'Who cares? I'm going to France.' " Ah.

The risks were calculated. The risks were justified. No one ever ascended a mountain without risk.

Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

sometimes you had to be brave enough to "point your life in a new direction.

now her voice was loud and clear. "This can happen to anyone.

was nervous, when she didn't

You were sad and hurt. Maybe your heart was broken, but you weren't broken

Bugger niceness. It was overrated.

They could fall in love with fresh new people, or they could have the courage and humility to tear off some essential layer of themselves and reveal to each other a whole new level of 'otherness', a level far beyond what sort of music they liked.

You're allowed to grieve your loss even if it's embarrassing

Come on. We're not going to let her bother

So why didn't you put up with it before? Why didn't you turn yourself in before I even knew you?

She could feel her cheeks burn as she typed in the two shameful words. "Domestic." "Violence.

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul." His eyes gleamed in the shadows from the candlelight. "That's, ah, from Nelson Mandela's favorite poem, 'Invictus.

And yet here she was. There was nothing else to do, nowhere else to turn. "Goddamn it," she said, and turned

Be an unstoppable force. Write with an imaginary machete strapped to your thigh…