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Quotes About Courage

Don't fuck with me, fellas. This ain't my first time at the rodeo.
~ Joan Crawford
1. Find your own style and have the courage to stick to it. 2. Choose your clothes for your way of life. 3. Make your wardrobe as versatile as an actress. It should be able to play many roles. 4. Find your happiest colours - the ones that make you feel good. 5. Care for your clothes, like the good friends they are!
~ Joan Crawford
Damn it . . . Don't you dare ask God to help me.
~ Joan Crawford
I'm just telling you to live in [the world]. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it.
~ Unknown
There's a point when you go with what you've got. Or you don't go.
~ Joan Didion
Try to think about having enough left to break a bottle over it.
~ Joan Didion
Uno no teme por lo que ha perdido. Lo que ha perdido ya está en el muro. Lo que ha perdido ya está al otro lado de las puertas cerradas. Uno teme por lo que todavía no ha perdido. Puede que ustedes todavía no vean nada por perder. Y, sin embargo, no hay día en su vida en que yo no la vea.
~ Joan Didion
I myself have always found that if I examine something, it's less scary. I grew up in the West, and we always had this theory that if you saw - if you kept the snake in you eye line, the snake wasn't going to bite you. And that's kind of way I feel about confronting pain. I want to know where it is.
~ Joan Didion
People who respect themselves are welling to accept the risk…they are willing to invest something of themselves; they may not play at all, but when they do play, they know the odds.
~ Joan Didion
Fear's a box we grow used to, convince ourselves it's all the space we need, that we like its color, its smell, its protection. Comes a time to stop hiding, stop being afraid. If we don't break free of our boxes, our spirits' shrink, we shrink in every way imaginable. Oh, Grace, my friend, don't let fear, especially someone else's fear, prevent you from living your life.
~ Unknown
That's all right. We may say what we daren't write. "And sing what is too foolish to say
~ Unknown
Moishe, after the one-eyed Israeli general who'd triumphed in several wars.
~ Joanne Fluke
it, I just did it. I don't know if I
~ Joanne Fluke
I liked her better for showing a little spirit.
~ Joanne Harris
If I'm going to die today, the least I can do is look fabulous while I'm doing it.
~ Joanne Harris
Sometimes walking away is best. I should know. It's my specialty.
~ Joanne Harris
Besides, we have more chocolates to deliver in Les Marauds; coconut truffles for Omi; rose and cardamom for Fatima and her daughters; chili for old Mahjoubi, that warms the heart and brings courage. And one more package, for Inès; tied with a red silk ribbon. The gift that crosses all cultures; that brings a smile to the sourest face; that pulls back the years and takes us to a simpler, sweeter time.
~ Joanne Harris
I know you don't remember her much, Narcisse, but your mother was very strong. Stronger than anyone I've known; strong and sweet as peach liqueur .
~ Joanne Harris
For the girls with messy hair and thirsty hearts.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
It turned out that my curiosity did not outweigh my courage after all. Sometimes love means not being able to bear seeing the one you love the way they are, when they're not what you hoped for.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
To not do what you can to protect someone, that's cowardly.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
Many people in the village wanted her to be more of a girl, and Peter had wanted her to be large and brave but a little less large and brave than him. But Pine Sap was sure enough to want her to be exactly who she was.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.
~ Jodi Picoult
Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.
~ Jodi Picoult