Quotes About Courage

But this is what losing most of your friends does: It makes you unafraid. Whatever anyone threatens, whatever anyone is offended by, it doesn't matter, because you have already survived much, much worse. In fact, you are still surviving. You survive every single, blessed

Silence only harms when there are things that aren't being said, or when there's the fear that the well is empty and there's nothing left to say.

Most of the time I manage to forget to be afraid. But sometimes I think, 'This could be is,' and I move forward anyway.

We are face to face with enormity again, but this time we are going to make it through. It is a moment we can get out of. Together.

Craig can't bear it. He opens his eyes, looks over to Tariq, who has tears in his own eyes. He mimes writing. Tariq scrambles for a marker and some paper. He runs over to Craig. All the things Craig has to say boil down to the essential... I'M GAY, MOM. I'M GAY. Craig rotates his and Harry's bodies so he's facing his mother. Then he holds up his shaky sign. He sees her eyes as she understands it.

There's no such thing as ready,' she says. 'There's only willing.

Maybe there is 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.

Because this is only going to get worse," she said. "So we must buck up, put on a kind face, and get on with it." "Get on with what?" "Life. In all its bittersweet glory.

Dude, nobody puts baby in a corner.

The thing about a spotlight is that you have to step into it. You have to get onto that stage.

i'm sure it's going to be a total disaster. but i guess the point is that i'm going to do it anyway.

you've gotta learn to love the falling, because it's all about falling.

Maybe there is 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.

I was daunted by you, and you were daunted by me. The key is to never recognize these imbalances. To not let the dauntingness daunt us.

It's the hard things that matter. Those are the things worth leaping for.

I knew I should have call Jack, should have told him...but I didn't. Not yet. I was afraid of him thinking that I was crazy, too. I wasn't sure what he'd do if he saw me drowning. I wasn't sure he'd save me unless he was saving himself. what he'd say.

Living within the definition of his own truth, just like me. He knows who he wants to be. Most people our age don't have to do that. They stay within the realm of the easy. 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.

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

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.

it's all about falling/you land and get up so you can fall again/it's all about falling/i won't be afraid to hit that wall again

Are you going to be someone who takes charge of her feelings and her actions, even if the outcome might hurt, or someone who lets herself be unhappy simply because she won't ask for what she wants?

If there's no feeling of fear then there's no need for courage.

The thing about a spotlight is that you have to step into it. You have to get onto that stage. I haven't been ready for a lot of things, but from early on, I was ready for this.

But this is what losing most of your friends does: It makes you unafraid.