"My mother's gifts of courage to me were both large and small. The latter are woven so subtly into the fabric of my psyche that I can hardly distinguish where she stops and I begin."

Courage, Mother, Life, Identity

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"My mother's gifts of courage to me were both large and small. The latter are woven so subtly into the fabric of my psyche that I can hardly distinguish where she stops and I begin."

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"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

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"Only cowards leave words unspoken."

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"Live dangerously and you live right."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

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"Sometimes, despite how your heart feels, you have to do what you must in order to get the result you need. When it's impossible to walk away then you need to make it hurt and they will walk away for you."

Donna Lynn Hope, Jamaican Author

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"What are you going to do? Are you going to live in the dark, locked in here? Afraid to look out, answer the door, leave? Yes, he's out there, and he's clearly not going to leave you alone until one of three things happens: he hurts you and gets arrested, or he makes a mistake and gets arrested, or you stop him."

Rachel Caine, Canadian Actress

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"Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"Some say "fear even helps like; The flight or over love reaction but to me it is your loving heart to prove to prove it worthy."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"In this space, in this moment, we are who we want to be. I am lucky, because for me that doesn't take much courage. But for others, it takes a world of bravery to make it to the clearing."

David Levithan, American Author

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"I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water."

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"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."

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"To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision."

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"If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die."

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"Nothing will work unless you do."

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"It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable."

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"I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes."

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"I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you."

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"Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning."

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"I learned to love my son without wanting to possess him and I learned how to teach him to teach himself."

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