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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in. ↗

— James Baldwin

#individuality #inspirational-quotes #life #life-lessons #courage

Shame derives its power from being unspeakable. ↗

— Brené Brown

#shame #speaking #courage

Certain people will be upset when you speak the truth. They might get mad. They might get really mad. That's because they are still living the lie you've exposed. Stay strong. Speak truth. Do not allow yourself to get pulled back into their lie just to make others happy and yourself miserable. You are free. Stay free. ↗

— Toni Sorenson

#family #friendship #inspirational #truth #courage

Alcohol was for people who basically wished to be dead but lacked the courage to kill themselves. ↗

— MacDonald Harris

#courage

And only weaklings...who lack courage and the power to feel they're right when the whole world says they're wrong, ever lose. ↗

— Zelda Fitzgerald

#courage

When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to. ↗

— Don Juan

#possession #warrior #courage

You didn’t get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do. ↗

— Lev Grossman

#hero #quest #courage

It is the hardest thing of all, the one thing that will show if you have the one true courage. To know that you have failed, that your best efforts have been defeated, to not be able to stand it, to not be able to go on and yet to go on nonetheless. ↗

— Silvia Hartmann

#endurance #failure #hard #mantra #moving-on

…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” (p.275) ↗

— Mark Nepo

#fish #learn #sky #teacher #water

Each smallest act of kindness, reverberates across great distances and spans of time --affecting lives unknown to the one who’s generous spirit, was the source of this good echo. Because kindness is passed on and grows each time it’s passed until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage, years later, and far away. Likewise, each small meanness, each expression of hatred, each act of evil. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#kindness #courage