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“You are braver than you want to believe. You like to pretend you're not bold because it's an excuse to not stretch yourself.”

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Book:The Stand-In

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“Whenever I hear a survivor say they wish they'd had the courage to come forward, I instinctively shake my head. It was never about your courage. Fear of retaliation is real. Security is not free. It bothered me that coming forward should feel like heading toward a guillotine. I don't think most survivors want to live in hiding. We do because silence means safety. Openness means retaliation. Which means it's not the telling of the stories that we fear, it's what people will do when we tell our stories.”

Courage Sexual Assault Sexual Violence

Book:Know My Name

Source: Know My Name

“What a word that is, en-courage. Though our dreams be tossed and blown, still we sing ourselves and one another into courage.”

Life Hope Courage Dreams Encourage

Book:The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

Source: The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“Totalitarian ideology is able to blackmail man through his inner cowardice It threatens him into surrendering his innermost convictions in exchange for glamour and acceptance...”

Courage Integrity Compromise Never Surrender Totalitarian Control

Book:The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing

Source: The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing

“People have different ideas about what's brave. You did the brave thing, because the brave thing is doing what your Knowing tells you to do. You don't ask others what's brave, you feel and know what's brave. What you know to do might be the opposite of what others are telling you to do. It takes special bravery to honor yourself when the crowd is pressuring you not to. [...] Sometimes being brave requires letting the crowd think you're a coward. Sometimes being brave means letting everyone down but yourself.”

Courage Bravery Brave Courageous Peer Pressure Being Brave Courageousness Being Courageous Going Against The Grain

Book:Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living / A Toolkit for Modern Life

Source: Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living / A Toolkit for Modern Life

“The Lion drew a deep breath, stooped its head even lower and gave him a Lion’s kiss. And at once Digory felt that new strength and courage had gone into him.”

Love Courage Strength Tenderness

Book:The Magician's Nephew

Source: The Magician's Nephew

“When someone sees you headed in a direction, and that person throws a brick into the road, that is the precise moment to forge onward, with greater velocity, toward your destination.”

Courage Achievement Obstacles Goals Persistence

Book:Just as I Am

Source: Just as I Am

“You are tenacious, fierce, and intrepid.”

Courage Inner Strength Know Yourself

Book:Afraid to Hope

Source: Afraid to Hope

“It’s easy to spot a hero. They’re the ones who refuse the title.”

Courage Humility Hero Bravery Heroic Heroes Nobility Sacrificial

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“That morning, she was wearing an orange cotton dress; she looked like a burning sunset, and Chika knew immediately that his story would end with her, that he would drown in her large liquid eyes and it would be the perfect way to go. There was nothing boiling in him, just a loud and clear exhale, a weight of peace wrapping around his heart. Kavita looked up and smiled at him, and somehow Chika found the liver to ask her to lunch.”

Love Heart Courage

Book:The Death of Vivek Oji

Source: The Death of Vivek Oji

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