“We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“I promise you I will try harder to be better. I have battled with things inside me for longer than you know; I do not know what they are or why they are there, I only know that they feel manageable, defeatable, when I am around You.”— Tyler Knott Gregson, goodreads.com
“I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, archive.org
“But not all men seek rest and peace; some are born with the spirit of the storm in their blood…”— Robert E. Howard, amazon.com
“We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.”— Robert Jordan, amazon.com
“It takes ten times as long to put yourself together as it does to fall apart.”— Suzanne Collins, amazon.com
“What makes Heroic? To face simultaneously one’s greatest suffering and one’s highest hope.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I’ll rise.”— Maya Angelou, amazon.com
“Even though love covers all things, fear is what keeps us silent and keeps words unsaid. Fear keeps us standing in one place. Eventually, when it wins, it means we never got the courage to say what we needed to say.”— Hannah Brencher, amazon.com
“I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It’s so… heroic.”— George Carlin, amazon.com
“On your face there is something like the promise of a storm: one day passion will burn it to the bone.”— Jean-Paul Sartre, amazon.com
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”— Desmond Tutu, theguardian.com
“You’ve got to use it, the pain. Use it as fuel to move past the torment, to the light at the end of the tunnel.”— Thomas E. Sniegoski, amazon.com
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”— Nelson Mandela, amazon.com