“My mother always told me, 'hide your face-people are looking at you.' I would reply, 'It does not matter; I am also looking at them.'”— Malala Yousafzai, amazon.com
“It’s hard to go. It’s scary and lonely…and half the time you’ll be wondering why the hell you’re in Cincinnati or Austin or North Dakota or Mongolia or wherever your melodious little finger-plucking heinie takes you. There will be boondoggles and discombobulated days, freaked-out nights and metaphor…”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“So live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!”— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com
“But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.”— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com
“Every man wants to believe in himself. And every man wants to be fearless. We become heroes when we stand up for what we believe in.”— Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali, amazon.com
“Every man wants to believe in himself. And every man wants to be fearless. We become heroes when we stand up for what we believe in.”— Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali, amazon.com
“All through my life I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my strength has been tested. Now my patience and endurance are being tested. Every step of the way I believe that God has been with me. And, more than ever, I know that he is with me now. I have learned to l…”— Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali, amazon.com
“How often do you think we write our own ending before the story is even finished? How often do we give up on ourselves when our lives are just starting? Things get hard and we immediately back away and assume that means we’re going in the wrong direction, doing the wrong thing. If anything, when the…”— Rachel Van Dyken, amazon.com
“It seems to me that the less I fight my fear, the less it fights back. If I can relax, fear relaxes, too.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“I find that fear and not wanting to take risks, and staying too comfortable makes people wait. They’ll say, ‘I’ll wait until this happens, I’ll wait until I go to film school, I’ll wait until I have all the money, I’ll wait until they ask me.’ Don’t wait for permission. Seek without permission. Ther…”— Ava DuVernay, scriptmag.com
“Do you have the courage to bring forth the treasures that are hidden within you?”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“There are moments in our lives when we summon the courage to make choices that go against reason, against common sense and the wise counsel of people we trust. But we lean forward nonetheless because, despite all risks and rational argument, we believe that the path we are choosing is the right and…”— Howard Schultz, Joanne Gordon, amazon.com
“But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don’t you do the same?”— Anthony Doerr, amazon.com
“I know of nothing more difficult than knowing who you are and having the courage to share the reasons for the catastrophe of your character with the world.”— David Shields, amazon.com
“You ruin your life by desensitizing yourself. We are all afraid to say too much, to feel too deeply, to let people know what they mean to us. Caring is not synonymous with crazy. Expressing to someone how special they are to you will make you vulnerable. There is no denying that. However, that is no…”— Bianca Sparacino, amazon.com
“Sometimes starting over is exactly what a person needs. And I think it’s admirable. A lot of people don’t have the courage it takes to do something like that.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com