#courage

-Tú no tienes corazón -me dice el alto SS. -Sí lo tengo -le respondo. Y de golpe me siento orgulloso porque he sido lo suficientemente fuerte para salir en defensa de mi corazón. ↗

— Julius Fučík

#courage

I realized that the worst thing that could happen to me was about to happen to me. ↗

— William Raymond Manchester

#fate #fear #life #war #courage

We don't move with our legs and arms, but with courage and will power. ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#courage

If liquid courage smelled like cologne and gushed out of my penis, I’d make a better fire fighter than I’m not right now. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#penis #strange #surreal #change

Kate faced the crowd. They were just eyes and teeth to her, just spit and voices. It was a moment, even, before they became people: a man with one blind eye, another whose neck was thick with lumps and weeping wounds of scrofula. The poorest of the market. At Kate's feet, Drina. Her scarf and shirt were torn open. ↗

— Erin Bow

#courageous #friendship #loyalty #marketplace #mob

I have the impression that our children are much more excited about going to school than children in other countries are. They think of it as a special privilege. Going to school, being with other children, getting books and pencils - all of that is like a dream for them. ↗

— Cheryl Benard

#education #privilege #courage

La couleur du courage, c'est le brun ↗

— Mary Gentle

#courage

He squinted at her. He recalled the tears in her eyes that had not fallen into her teacup. No, it wasn’t a revelation. Not even to him. Yet, this was the same woman who had stolen a camel right out from under the Anti-Zionist army’s nose. She’d taken his hand, thrown herself down a sand dune on a dare, and then beaten him back up it. She’d glared at him and refused to part from his side. A coward? “Never,” he said again. ↗

— V.S. Carnes

#courage #love #courage

We were all born with the courage to stand up to our fears. If not...then we would have also been born with mouse holes to run into. ↗

— Timothy Pina

#courage

Goldstein, you'd be a pretty good boy if you wasn't so chicken. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#cowardice #courage