Showing posts with label courage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label courage. Show all posts

06 April 2012

...to break your own heart.

"You are not a terrible person for wanting to beak up with someone you love. You don't need a reason to leave. Wanting to leave is enough. Leaving doesn't mean you're incapable of real love or that you'll never love anyone else again. It doesn't mean you're morally bankrupt or psychologically demented or a nymphomaniac. It means you wish to change the terms of one particular relationship. That's all. Be brave enough to break your own heart." -Sugar; Dear Sugar, The Rumpus Advice Column

05 January 2012

You linger on the edge...

"You linger on the edge... as if it is comfortable... as if it is your home. The most loving thing life can offer you is a push." -Sera Beak; Divine Winks

06 June 2011

Make no little plans...

"Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans. Aim high in hope and work. Remembering that noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die." -Daniel H. Burnham

28 May 2011

You can die at any time...

"You can die at any time... It's living that takes true courage." -Himura Kenshin

25 May 2011

I've finally stopped running away...

"I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?" -Goldie Hawn

24 May 2011

It is a far, far better...

"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known." -Charles Dickons; A Tale of Two Cities

We're our own dragons...

"We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves." -Tom Robbins

23 May 2011

Great spirits have always found...

"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence." -Albert Einstein

19 May 2011

Courage is not defined...

"Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell, and rose again." -Unknown

It takes as much courage...

"It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded." -Anne Morrow Lindbergh

18 May 2011

It takes a lot of courage...

"It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else." -Erma Bombeck

Tell a man he is brave...

"Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so." -Thomas Carlyle

To keep doing what you set...

"To keep doing what you set your heart on... It's a very hard thing to do." -Final Fantasy IX

16 May 2011

I'm never going to say...

"... I'm never going to say 'I didn't do this' or 'I regret that'. I'm going to say, 'I don't regret a damn thing. I came, I went, and I did it all!' " -Kim Basinger

Courage is doing what you're...

"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." -Eddie Rickenbacker