"You can't test courage cautiously."

--

Source : Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.102, Canongate Books

Annie Dillard

#Courage Quotes #Insperational Quotes #Bravery Quotes

“As an actor, you can't be off the market for too long.”
“Luckily, what you trade off in not being part of the comic book canon and not having some literature that you can use to your benefit, in terms of figuring out who you are, you gain in the ability to just be whoever you want to be.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I don't care what people's myths are about me.”
“I'm fiercely proud to be Scottish.”
“Even from the very beginning, I didn't put any money in the stock market.”
“The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you ever were before. . . . 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, â€œI lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.”
“Be aware of your own worth, use all of your power to achieve it. Create an ocean from a dewdrop. Do not beg for light from the moon, obtain it from the spark within you.”
“What should I do? The person I really like...I told him not to play with bad people. But he won't listen. Really, what should I do?”

You may also like:

Barry Lopez
Author
Edward Abbey
Author
Henry David Thoreau
Author
Joan Didion
Author
Mary Oliver
Poet
Robert D. Richardson
Historian
Thomas Merton
Writer
Wallace Stegner
Historian
Wendell Berry
Novelist