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You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#dignity #empowerment #freedom #independence #individuality

At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead.The hard thing is finding the courage to do it. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#suzanne-collins #thoughtful #courage

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. ↗

— e. e. cummings

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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. ↗

— Lao Tzu

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I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane. ↗

— John Green

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Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say "yes" to life? ↗

— Paulo Coelho

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Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently. ↗

— Maya Angelou

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. ↗

— Mark Twain

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All happiness depends on courage and work. ↗

— Honoré de Balzac

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