courage

when you face the demons
in the deep dark forest
they tend to become
your friends

If there is one door in the castle
you have been told not to go through, you must.
Otherwise you'll just be arranging furniture
in rooms you've already been in.

Pain nourishes courage.
You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

the opposite of fear isn't courage, the opposite of fear is love

"They gave me six months to live, and I gave 'em three and a half years of living."

I rejoice that I live in such a splendidly disturbing time.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

"It's alright to have butterflies in your stomach, just get them to fly in formation."