Quotes About Courage

People often use the word 'despite' in the context of mental illness. So-and-so did such-and-such despite having depression/anxiety/OCD/agoraphobia/whatever. But sometimes that 'despite' should be a 'because'. For instance, I write because of depression. I was not a writer before. The intensity needed - to explore things with relentless curiosity and energy - simply wasn't there.

Se você tem como objetivo ser algo que não é, vai sempre fracassar. Tenha como objetivo ser você. Parecer, agir e pensar como você. Ser a versão mais verdadeira de si. Abrace essa singularidade. Apoie, ame, trabalhe arduamente essa singularidade. E não dê a menor bola quando as pessoas ridicularizarem ou zombarem dela. A maioria das fofocas é inveja disfarçada. Mantenha a cabeça baixa, mantenha a estamina. Continue a nadar...

If we keep going in a straight line we'll get out of here. Walking one foot in front of the other, in the same direction, will always get you further than running around in circles. It's about the determination to keep walking forward. It's okay It's okay to be broken.

Nothing is stronger than a small hope that doesn't give up.

But who seriously goes confidently in the direction of their dreams..??

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams,' Thoreau

Politeness is often fear. Kindness is always courage. But caring is what makes you human. Care more, become more human

There was death. Violent, oblivious death, in bear form, staring at her with its black eyes. And she knew then, more than she'd known anything, that she wasn't ready to die.

A wave can kill you. Or you can ride it. It's sometimes more dangerous to shy away. You can't live your life in fear, Tom. You have to be prepared to get on your board and stand on your feet. If you are in the barrel of a wave you have to ignore the fear. You have to be in that moment. You have to carve on through. You get scared, and the next thing you know you are off your board and smashing your head on a rock.

Nothing is stronger than a small hope that doesn't give up. Nothing is stronger than a small hope that doesn't give up. Nothing is stronger than a small hope that doesn't give up.

Find a passion as large as your fear. The way out of your mind is via the world.

Allez avec confiance dans la direction de vos rêves disait Thoreau. Vivez la vie que vous avez imaginée

Bertrand Russell wrote that 'To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three-parts dead'. Maybe that

The impossible, I suppose, happens via living. Will my life be miraculously free from pain, despair, grief, heartbreak, hardship, loneliness, depression? No. But do I want to live? Yes. Yes. A thousand times, yes.

Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea

Åžok edici gerçek o anda, nihayet, zihninde netleÅŸti; Nora ölmek istemiyordu.

Everything is going to be alright. Or, if not, everything is going to be, so let's not worry.

I felt so terrified and so in love that I realised they – the terror, the love – were one and the same thing.

So, if they believed in themselves—the logic must go—why not believe in something that was only a fraction more unlikely? •

Chi teme di soffrire, soffre già perché teme.

If people pick on you, they see something inside you that they are scared of. Something special

Nimic nu e mai puternic decat o raza de speranta care nu se stinge.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three-parts dead'. Maybe that was her problem.

So she stopped trying to think about what to write and, in sheer exasperation, just put down the first thing that came to her, the thing that she felt inside her like a defiant silent roar that could overpower any external destruction. The one truth she had, a truth