“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 you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.”

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"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."

- Harper Lee

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"She did not stand alone, but what stood behind her, the most potent moral force in her life, was the love of her father."

- Harper Lee

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"Most people are nice when you finally see them."

- Harper Lee

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"Atticus, he was real nice.” “Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them."

- Harper Lee

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"Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."

- Harper Lee

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"The greatest strength lies in vulnerability."

- Beauty and the Beast

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"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."

- Mark Twain

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"I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me."

- Tracee Ellis Ross

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"If your dreams don’t scare you, they’re not big enough."

- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

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"Courage, dear heart."

- C.S. Lewis

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