Quotes About Courage

No one can stay in a brutal, bloodstained place.

To have hope in these times is an act of courage. To experience catastrophic sadness, to recognize the brutality of life, and still maintain hope--That is everything. Because in order to flourish in the desert, to grow in the bleak, shallow dust and still believe in the possibility of beauty requires a special kind of persistence, It's not only patience and grit and strength, I realized. It's also faith.

Despite everything, he likes being alive.

I've seen bad things, too," he assures her. "Yeah?" He nods. "I guess you wouldn't be on top of this train if you hadn't.

She could do anything back then, before she had maternal fear to spark any real caution in her soul.

Lydia knows she's increased their chances of survival. She needs to take encouragement where she can find it. She mustn't despair at the enormity of the task yet ahead. She should focus only on the immediate next steps.

Only one out of three will make it to your destination alive. Will it be you?" He points at a man in his fifties with a neatly trimmed beard and a fresh T-shirt.

She's wondered with the sort of detached fascination of the comfortable elite how dire the conditions of their lives must be wherever they come from, that this is the better option. That these people would leave their homes, their cultures, their families, even their languages, and venture into tremendous peril, risking their very lives, all for the chance to get to the dream of some faraway country that doesn't even want them.

Everything we've been through?" Soledad says. "It'll all be worth it. We'll leave it behind and have a new beginning." Rebeca looks at the floor but her eyes are unfocused. "Like it never happened," she says. They

Pero no te preocupes, mi reina del alma—tu sufrimiento será breve.

migra. When has she ever

perímetro. Lydia move o corpo na direção dessa

todos sabem que o caminho para a verdadeira audácia passa sempre, primeiro, pelo fingimento.

Jeanine Cummins

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.

Car celui qui saute dans le vide n'a plus de comptes à rendre à ceux qui le regardent.

Il est facile de choisir les rideaux les plus jolis, les meubles les plus parfaits, de faire les seuls mouvements d'appareil possibles, si l'on sait d'avance que J'on est doué pour ça. De la part d'un artiste, trop bien se connaître, c'est un peu céder à la facilité. Ce qui est difficile, au contraire, c'est d'avancer en terre inconnue, de reconnaître le danger, de prendre des risques, d'avoir peur.

Listen to me, normal one! We see a truth that you no longer see. A truth that says the essence of man is love and faith, courage and tenderness, generosity and sacrifice.

Oh ! Franz, ce que tu peux être poule mouillée parfois ! Tu n'as donc pas envie de participer à ce grand bouleversement qui se prépare, de sortir de ta cage, de prendre ton envol ? Rappelle-toi que tu es le fils d'un Aigle ! Où sont tes ailes ? - Je ne suis pas le fils d'un Aigle, mais d'un vautour, qui pendant vingt ans s'est nourri de cadavres. Du moins c'est ainsi qu'on me le présente ici.

even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons. - Mr. Penderwick

She had to defend the people she loved the best.

Ready, Lydia?" Jack asked, "Can you run?" Could she? A bobolink warbled the answer. "Yes," said Lydia, all hope and exhilaration. "Yes, I can." And away they went. the three together, prancing, leaping, gamboling into the future.