Today's Quote Wednesday, June 18, 2025 on courage

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.
- Stephen Curry

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We don't always cry because we are weak, sometimes we cry because we have been strong, brave and courageous for way too long.
- Johnny Depp

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The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole.
- Joyce Carol Oates

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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
- William Faulkner

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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world . . . would do this, it would change the earth.
- William Faulkner

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Fortune befriends the bold.
- Emily Dickinson

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The real challenge is not just to cross the river of life, but to do so without letting the waters overwhelm us or turn us into something we are not. True courage is swimming with the current of our own being, without fearing the loss of our shape. Observe: even if the current is strong, the salmon always knows where to go, because it is not afraid to swim upstream. And if life pushes you underwater, know this: if you learn to swim, the water becomes your sea.
- Lao Zen Scacciapensieri