John Green

"I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together, in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane. "

John Green (Looking for Alaska)

Maya Angelou

"Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently."

Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou

"My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; get my work done; try to love somebody; and have the courage to accept their love in return".

Maya Angelou

Anaïs Nin

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

Anaïs Nin

AA Milne

"If ever there is a tomorrow when we're not together.. there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart.. I'll always be with you."

AA Milne

Rainer Maria Rilke

"Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love."

Rainer Maria Rilke