It's your life; you don't need someone's permission to live the life you want. Be brave to live from your heart. ― Roy T. Bennett

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The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

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You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.

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The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

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I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. — Nelson Mandela

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No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones. — Nelson Mandela

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These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

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Life shrinks or expands in proportion with one’s courage. — Anaïs Nin

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If you have been brutally broken, but still have the courage to be gentle to other living beings, then you’re a badass with the heart of an angel. ― Keanu Reeves

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The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy. ― Kalu Ndukwe Kalu

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