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  • #1
    Rabindranath Tagore
    “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
    Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

  • #2
    Nicholas Sparks
    “Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are there cannot be one without the other yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel I remember wondering to be always together yet forever apart?”
    Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

  • #3
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet I would remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore

  • #4
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “One day,' you said, 'I watched the sunset forty-three times!'

    And a little later you added:
    'You know, when one is that sad, one can get to love the sunset.'

    'Were you that sad, then, on the day of the forty-three sunset?'

    But the prince made no answer.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #5
    “If the sunset and sunrise are for sale, I will buy it even it's expensive.”
    El Fuego

  • #6
    Milan Kundera
    “The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.”
    Milan Kundera, Ignorance

  • #7
    Dante Alighieri
    “There is no greater sorrow
    Than to recall a happy time
    When miserable.”
    Dante Alighieri

  • #8
    Carson McCullers
    “We are homesick most for the places we have never known.”
    Carson McCullers

  • #9
    Isaac Asimov
    “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
    Isaac Asimov

  • #10
    Lao Tzu
    “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
    Lao Tzu

  • #11
    J.K. Rowling
    “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #12
    Harper Lee
    “I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #13
    Nora Ephron
    “Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
    Nora Ephron

  • #14
    George R.R. Martin
    “Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
    'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #15
    William Faulkner
    “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
    William Faulkner

  • #16
    Maya Angelou
    “Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #17
    Jane Austen
    “There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #18
    Mark Twain
    “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
    Mark Twain

  • #19
    Veronica Roth
    “There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater.

    But sometimes it doesn't.

    Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain, and the work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life.

    That is the sort of bravery I must have now.”
    Veronica Roth, Allegiant

  • #20
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Courage is found in unlikely places.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien

  • #21
    Robert Frost
    “Freedom lies in being bold.”
    Robert Frost

  • #22
    Erica Jong
    “I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....”
    Erica Jong

  • #23
    Ann Landers
    “Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.”
    Ann Landers

  • #24
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Courage is grace under pressure.”
    ernest hemingway

  • #25
    Christopher Paolini
    “Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.”
    Christopher Paolini, Eragon

  • #26
    Lao Tzu
    “A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.”
    Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

  • #27
    Mary Anne Radmacher
    “Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.”
    Mary Anne Radmacher

  • #28
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

  • #29
    Mark Twain
    “It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”
    Mark Twain

  • #30
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien



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