“It goes with a courageous intent to greet the universe as it really is, not to foist our emotional predispositions on it but to courageously accept what our explorations tell us.”
“Courage is telling our story, not being immune to criticism.”
“Once you have explored a fear, it becomes less terrifying. Part of courage comes from extending our knowledge.”
“Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes."[The Rectorial Address Delivered by James M. Barrie at St. Andrew's University May 3, 1922, to the Red Gowns of St. Andrews, Canada, 1922]”
“Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and wisdom.”
“Right words are born in courage, which results from our struggle to make sense of our various predicaments. Cheer is what words are "trying to tell us/... It's native to the words/and what they want us always to know/even when it seems quite impossible to do.”