Quotes About Courage

Recklessness killed seers as surely as it killed gesiths.

The thought of going alone into the king's tent full of men who had just killed other men made her feel dizzy.

She stood alone at the empty heart of a gone god, staff in the crook of her arm, one hand on her seax and the other on her cross. She would not wear and weather. She was Yffing. She would be totem and token for her people, the light of the world.

Send me strength, she called-to whom?-and kicked Bony to a gallop, and hurled her javelin hard and true.

Hild bent over and vomited stinging bile, then through her weeping, killed the man at her feet.

Have you kissed anyone? Boldcloak? Your gemæcce?" Hild shook her head. "Well, perhaps they were frightened of kissing the king's seer. But I'm not. I know what you need.

Two risks, not one. But it was done.

She could not move fast against the weight of water, not against a mounted man, so she did the only thing she could and hurled the boar spear across the horse's path, straight into the bank.

Peretur laughed. Risk. Her whole life was risk. And now, today, with Nimuë at her side-and keeping food down-Peretur feelt she could slay a dragon.

Excitement is the product of facing something dangerous.

You are a seer overwhelmed by vision, not a silly maid who can't hold her drink. You will not hide. You will not hang your head. You will smile. You will eat. You will make a show of drinking your wine. One more sip of this. Good. Now gather your wits.

Bravery is relative. Perhaps it's the same with dreams.

Stay in the world, Aud. Stay alive inside. Promise me. Stay alive.

Swimming against the current is not idiotic if the waters are racing toward a waterfall.

De muchas cosas me pueden culpar mis enemigos. Pero de dos, jamás: de ser ladrón o maricón"[40

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. from the SERENITY PRAYER

Beyond a certain degree of hardship or misery, life often revives and heals the scars. As time passed, deportation [to the concentration camps for the young woman] had become a kind of voyage and even, thanks to the almost terrifying capacity of memory to transform horror into courage, a voyage that she could easily mention. Any way of seeing the world is good, as long as one returns.

Il y a pas une grande sagesse a dire un mot de reproche ; mais il y a une plus grande sagesse a dire un mot qui, sans se moquer du malheur de l'homme, le ranime, lui rende du courage, comme les éperons rendent du courage à un cheval que l'abreuvoir a rafraîchi.

To write, for a lesbian, is to learn to take down the patriarchal posters in her room. It means learning to live with bare walls for a while. It means learning how not to be afraid of the ghosts which assume the color of the bare wall.

Keep to Beauty. Have no fear. Learn to bear the unbearable. The raw of all things.

It's a very brave thing to fall in love. You have to be willing to trust somebody else with your whole being, and that's very difficult, really difficult and very brave.

I think it's important that we don't all have to hold our heads high all the time saying everything's fine.

Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.