Courage

When you cross a challenge that is expansive and deep, you may not even realize when you’ve come to the other side. That day will come. And when it does, how will you look at your crossing?

There is no danger than doubt.

By stepping outside your comfort zone to do something peculiar, you confirm that you can do more than you've done. Move out!

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

It takes more courage to disturb the neighborhood than it takes to disturb the universe. And the price is often higher.

But Jocelyn Morgenstern was not the kind of woman who wept, not the kind of woman who broke, or Valentine would have broken her long since.

I delight in what I fear.

What if I have nothing left to fight for? I say, my voice shaking.'Then you fight until you find something to fight for. But the moment you stop fighting the current, the moment you surrender to it, that's when you are truly lost.

No art ever came out of not risking your neck.

I try to find hope in struggle and resistance in small places as much as I can.

You can't make a difference until you dare to be different.

It takes strength to become weak!

How many young men fear that there is a monster inside them? People are supposed to fear others, not themselves. People are supposed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.

When I was about ten, I was very impressed by the way Tarzan could swing through the trees from vine to vine. No one ever told me, 'Don't try this at home.'.

That was not the professional hatred of one warrior for another in the heat of battle, in which even beneath the hatred there still existed a certain begrudging respect.

But there are many ways to be powerful. There is power in stillness. There is power in watching, waiting, saying the right thing at the right time to the right person. There is power in being a woman---oh yes, power in these bodies you gaze upon with derision.

A tangible sense of excruciation is caused by an unfair and cruel punishment. However, this problem can be resolved if people as a whole crowd courageously speak up and propose for a reform to balance their governments' power.

We're victors, remember? We're the ones who can survive anything they throw at us.

I can’t!” Maggie was now standing on the wall. “Past the boundary wall is a bad place. I’m not allowed in the bad place.

Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.