Quotes about Courage

When we run from darkness, how much do we really know about what we are running from? If we turn away from darkness on principle, doing everything we can to avoid it because there is simply no telling what it contains, isn't there a chance that what we are running from is God?

What if I could learn to trust my feelings instead of asking to be delivered from them? What if I could follow one of my great fears all the way to the edge of the abyss, take a breath, and keep going?

More to the point, there are times when dancing on tables is the most authentic prayer in reach, even if it pocks the table and clears the room.

There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.

The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.

I will conquer Femmeness... And then, I will turn it on its head and redefine it for the world to see.

Sexual harassment does bring shame.

No matter what hard thing you may go through or what kind of pain you may go through there is still hope.

I believe that no matter what you believe, you're going to go through hard times.

When I get to Heaven, I'll want to fight.

Great battles can make great heroes and heroines.