In the Confederate Army, an officer was judged by stark courage alone, and this made it possible for the Confederacy to live four years. -Chesty Puller

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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. — E.E. Cummings

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To create one’s own world takes courage. – Georgia O’Keeffe

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If you'll quit moaning and crying, I'll use the things to make you into someone I can use in the lives of others to show them that no matter where they've been, no matter how deep the hole, no matter how painful the trial, there's hope. There is victory.

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In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope. ― Barack Obama

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All hope abandon, ye who enter here! — Dante Alighieri

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Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it. —Tori Amos

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Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.

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Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it. — Mark Twain

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Where there is no hope, we must invent it.

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