#braver

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poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you


Walt Whitman


#civil-war #compassion #comrade #comradeship #death

Mission motto, sir," said Carrot cheerfully. "Morituri Nolumus Mori. Rincewind suggested it." "I imagine he did," said Lord Vetinari, observing the wizard coldly. "And would you care to give us a colloquial translation, Mr Rincewind?" "Er..." Rincewind hesitated, but there really was no escape. "Er... roughly speaking, it means, 'We who are about to die don't want to', sir.


Terry Pratchett


#cowardice #humor #parody #imagination

Some things must be done however much we wish to avoid them.


Michelle Zink


#life #life

A little reckless bravery may end up saving your life.


Henry Chancellor


#bravery #life #saving #true #life

What's the bravest thing you ever did? He spat in the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said.


Cormac McCarthy


#perseverance #perseverance

The value of being brave, working hard, saving money keeping order depends on what it's for.


Bernhard Schlink


#value-of-bravery #money

Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.


Carlos Ruiz Zafón


#bravery #common-sense #fear #idiots #scared

The bravest person I know is afraid of the dark. She sleeps with a night lamp always, but if her friends are threatened? She suddenly thinks she's a bear twelve feet tall and attacks whoever scared her friends.


Tamora Pierce


#daja #fear #friends #sandry #bravery

None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.


Lydia M. Child


#always #being #bravery #courage #cunning

Underlying the attack on psychotherapy, I believe, is a recognition of the potential power of any relationship of witnessing. The consulting room is a privileged space dedicated to memory. Within that space, survivors gain the freedom to know and tell their stories. Even the most private and confidential disclosure of past abuses increases the likelihood of eventual public disclosure. And public disclosure is something that perpetrators are determined to prevent. As in the case of more overtly political crimes, perpetrators will fight tenaciously to ensure that their abuses remain unseen, unacknowledged, and consigned to oblivion. The dialectic of trauma is playing itself out once again. It is worth remembering that this is not the first time in history that those who have listened closely to trauma survivors have been subject to challenge. Nor will it be the last. In the past few years, many clinicians have had to learn to deal with the same tactics of harassment and intimidation that grassroots advocates for women, children and other oppressed groups have long endured. We, the bystanders, have had to look within ourselves to find some small portion of the courage that victims of violence must muster every day. Some attacks have been downright silly; many have been quite ugly. Though frightening, these attacks are an implicit tribute to the power of the healing relationship. They remind us that creating a protected space where survivors can speak their truth is an act of liberation. They remind us that bearing witness, even within the confines of that sanctuary, is an act of solidarity. They remind us also that moral neutrality in the conflict between victim and perpetrator is not an option. Like all other bystanders, therapists are sometimes forced to take sides. Those who stand with the victim will inevitably have to face the perpetrator's unmasked fury. For many of us, there can be no greater honor. p.246 - 247 Judith Lewis Herman, M.D. February, 1997


Judith Lewis Herman


#abuse-of-power #abused-women #attacks #bravery #courage