Quotes About Courage

You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.

Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone.

Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore.

Being a bitch is easy. It's finding the alternative that's hard.

tiny: maybe there's something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. it's gonna hurt. it's gonna hurt because it matters.

If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful and ultimately comforting process of finding it.

You are happy even if you are afraid to admit it.

I know the odds are all against me and I know you might not feel this way too but I know I would rather die trying to know if I could mean something to you

We know that some of you are still scared. We know that some of you are still silent. Just because it's better now doesn't mean that it's always good.

if my whole world is going to crash down around me, then i am going to make the sound of the crashing

The terrorists-those nineteen people, with hundreds or maybe thousands behind them-did the worst thing you can possibly imagine. But tens of millions people did the right thing...On 9/11, all the hatred and murder could not compare with the weight of love, of bravery, of caring.

So what do you have to confess now? I don't know why I'm saying any of this, except that is the truth. I'm confessing that I don't know if I'm ready for this. What is 'this'? Being open. Being hurt. Liking. Not being liked. Seeing the flicker on. Seeing the flicker off. Leaping. Falling. Crashing.

Enlightenment is scary. Sometimes things look better in the dark.

Tell me a way you think this can work. We'll find a way, I tell her. That's not an answer. It's a hope. Hope's gotten us this far. Not answers.

Her vulnerability is open, but she's safe within it.

And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic nor popular - but one must take it because it is right.

There are few things harder than being born into the wrong body.

They beat the shit out of me. But you know what? I didn't need that shit inside of me. I'm glad it's gone.

I find my greatest strengths in wanting ti be strong. I find my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave.

Forget about the ones who set you up to see you fall.

As that famous homosexual Winston Churchill once said, if you find yourself heartbroken, keep walking.

A Cue from Nature Run outside during a thunderstorm That downpour, that conquered hesitation, that exhilaration That's what unlonely is like

Doubt is an acceptable risk for happiness.

The key is to never recognize these imbalances. To not let the dauntingness daunt us.