"The bravest thing I ever did was leave there. The next bravest thing I did was come back, to make myself heard."

Courage, Voice, Bravery, Self-Worth

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"The bravest thing I ever did was leave there. The next bravest thing I did was come back, to make myself heard."

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"We can overcome the uncertainties in life with courage and hope."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Courage, Overcome, Uncertainties, Life

"It's too risky", said doubters. "It's too difficult", said scoffers. "It's pointless", said mockers. "It's impossible", said haters. "It's already done", said believers."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"When people do the cowardly thing, it's not about respect, it's about fear."

Salman Rushdie, Indian Novelist

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"Fear is not respect. It is but a conniving, little weasel next to that mighty lion. They are a far, far cry from the same animal."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Courage, Fear, Truth, Power, Inspirational

"Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Courage, Death, Fear

"When you break rules, break 'em good and hard."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Courage, Rebellion, Rules, Change, Power

"A mighty storm is inconsequential when facing a mighty ship."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Courage, Storm, Ship, Mighty, Strength

"A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

Courage, Action, Danger, Fear, Fortitude

"Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts," he declared. "I doubt if he could kill a duck."Tyrion shrugged. "Fetch the duck."

George R. R. Martin, American Author

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"We need courage to take ourselves seriously, to look closely and without flinching, to regard the things that frighten us in life and art with wonder."

Elizabeth Gilbert, American Novelist

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"And the idea of light unexplainably produced out of nothing was haunting, it shook me. A flat drab mountain could produce its own light, no one in this whole world knows why, and if that was possible then of course there must be other things that seemed impossible that weren't, and so anything-great and terrible-felt possible to me now."

Possibility

"I had no evidence. No physical signs of my rape existed anymore. My body had already purged them. That was the irreversible reality."

Trauma

"My path, beyond doubt or denial. I just hadn't looked toward it. I wasn't lost. I'd always known the way. If I'd only allowed myself to look. I had never been lost, only scared."

Destiny

"I wanted him to declare in shock how overlooked and underestimated I had been ever since I was a child. How lucky he felt to be the one to have discovered me, to have me. I wanted him to look at me like maybe I was magic."

Self-Worth

"The bravest thing I ever did was leave there. The next bravest thing I did was come back, to make myself heard."

Courage

"In lovesickness we had found a common language."

Connection

"Because I feared I couldn't walk to Newton Centre without her, I needed to hike through desert, snow and woods alone.Childhood is a wilderness."

Independence

"We aren't afraid of what we can explain. But the truth is stranger than an aimless road, it always was. The world was full of blinding mysteries, and I was blind to truth of what they were. There were things about the world I couldn't understand."

Mystery

"Childhood is a wilderness."

Youth

"From that unremarkable gap in dense northern forest, I could finally see clearly that if I hadn't walked away from school, through devastating beauty alone on the Pacific Crest Trail, met rattlesnakes and bears, fording frigid and remote rivers as deep as I am tall-feeling terror and the gratitude that followed the realization that I'd survived rape-I'd have remained lost, maybe for my whole life. The trail had shown me how to change.This is the story of how my recklessness became my salvation.I wrote it."

Healing