Quotes About Courage

It's Miranda who speaks up. You're gay, she says, with complete seriousness. And I love you.

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

And for that moment, my heart is lifting too fast to be scared of falling.

But there's something about her—the cities on her shoes, the flash of bravery, the unnecessary sadness—that makes me want to know what the word will be when it stops being a sound. I have spent years meeting people without ever knowing them, and on this morning, in this place, with this girl, I feel the faintest pull of wanting to know. And in a moment of either weakness or bravery on my own part, I decide to follow it. I decide to find out more.

Easy things are worthless, Laurie says. and I realzie he's talking to both Sean and me. It's the hard things that matter. Those are the things worth leaping for.

So we must buck up, put on a kind face, and get on with it.

Some of our parents were always on our side. Some of our parents chose to banish us rather than see us for who we were. And some of our parents, when they found out we were sick, stopped being dragons and became dragonslayers instead. Sometimes that's what it takes—the final battle. But it should take much, much less than that.

But when it seems insurmountable, I need reminders like this that you can get used to it. That it can take on the comfort of the right choice. That lasting things do, in fact, last.

There are those moments you don't think you will survive. And then you survive.

We have defied the day as it was set out for us.

Whatever everyone else was not, I was willing to be.

The first sentence of the truth is always the hardest.

No. I don't. You don't always have to be who they want you to be, you know.

The swim of things. I go on an airplane. I walk under the Empire State Building. I take the bus, and the subway, and am surrounded by strangers the whole time. I certainly have room in my life for caution, but I have no room in my life for paralyzing fear. There's always a risk. There always has been. But I'd rather live my life than die of negations.

He says, No I want to be strong in a different way. Not because of me But for me

O Lord, as I walk through the valley of the shadow of doubt, at least let me wear a Walkman...

When you jump, all you're going to do is fall. But leaping? Leaping is when you think there's something on the other side.

In this space, in this moment, we are who we want to be. I am lucky, because for me that doesn't take much courage. But for others, it takes a world of bravery to make it to the clearing.

I need to be doing something, because doing nothing is just as harmful as facing danger head-on.

Whenever you're in the worst place, there is always a better place. Your abuser will try to hide it from you, but other people can help you get there.

I know there's a twisted code of honor about never tattling on another student, never speaking up against someone who's done you wrong. I know I will only make it worse by breaking this code. But the code of honor was written by bullies for the protection of bullies, and I don't want to follow it.

You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking. What would you have them do?

I don't want to be the strong one, but I don't want to be the weak one, either.

My fear tries to keep my secrets locked down, but my hope keeps slipping you the key.