courageous pages

“Justice seemed so little, so late.”

“To do something for someone or something you loved wasn’t a sacrifice at all. Even if it cost you your freedom, your life, your youth.”

“I’m afraid it never stops hurting.”

“If the act of love is so dangerous, why do people risk so much for it?”

“Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.”

“The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned.”

“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”

“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”

“It is only with that heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

“Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.”

“It’s a gift if it makes us better. It’s a curse if we let it destroy us.”

“We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are.”

“Those who are never afraid can never be brave.”

“Can it be true that freedom only exists when it is a treasure, shared by all?”

“Doing the right thing doesn’t always save you.”

“We live among mysteries. Love is one, there are others. We must not imagine we know all there is to know about the world.”

“We cannot know. But sometimes there is kindness, and sometimes there is love.”