Braver people Quotes

“Courage has a ripple effect. Every time we choose courage, we make everyone around us a little better and the world a little braver. And our world could stand to be a little kinder and braver.”

“If you could choose any mask to wear right now, what would it be?” Anne lay down her yarn. “I suppose if, as you say, I would grow into this mask, then I would make it of my own face . . . but a braver, better version of myself.” “And what would this braver Anne do?” The answer came quickly, as if it had been there all along. I’d save them, she thought.”

“Every Person wishes to stay happy, to flourishAnd live enough to see his dreams come true.Dreams...either they come true and earn appreciation for its dreamerOr remain unfulfilled and make its dreamer empty.Delight, sorrow, nourishment, emptiness are fated.I think those people are braver who despite having wish to stay happy also accept their bitter fate smilingly and acquiescently!”

“Petra, people tell me that I will 'move on' and I can't believe it. But if it ever does happen, and I forget to feel this pressing absence of you, if I make it through a meaningless party and don't remember to hate everyone for their peaceful lives until the morning, please know that I am already sorry. I am going to try to be brave like you asked me to, but I don't have any idea yet what that means. Is it braver to allow the sadness of your leaving to spread into each of my bones until it is as big as you were to me? Or is it braver to let you drift out into what may very well be a brighter, finer place than this and be happy to think of your joy there? I hope, Petra, that I get it right.”

“Some of the braver say I am mad.”

“I was a lot braver when I was eight.”

“An optimist is a braver cynic.”

“Music makes you braver.”

“- You're going to have to be brave.- I'm always brave.- Braver than that.”