“Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?”
"We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them."
- Lillian Hellman
Awareness
"Nobody knows what you want except you. And nobody will be as sorry as you if you don’t get it. Wanting some other way to live is proof enough of deserving it. Having it is hard work, but not having it is sheer hell."
- Lillian Hellman
Adversity
"People change and forget to tell each other."
- Lillian Hellman
Change
"Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all."
- Lillian Hellman
Reflection
"It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it."
- Lillian Hellman
Boldness
"The greatest strength lies in vulnerability."
- Beauty and the Beast
Courage
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."
- Mark Twain
Courage
"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
Courage
"If your dreams don’t scare you, they’re not big enough."
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Courage
"Courage, dear heart."
- C.S. Lewis
Courage