John Green Quotes

I think it's okay to be afraid, but it's not okay to let it rule your life.

Bravely overcoming one small fear gives you the courage to take on the next.

I am finding that vulnerability gives me great strength, because you're not hiding anymore. It's really about being a pioneer for myself, going into the places where I am not being taught. I have to teach myself.

Sometimes being afraid can show more strength than being fearless.

They say you never know who's the real hero and who's the real coward until you're looking death in the face. I've always been afraid of plenty of things, but fear isn't what makes you a coward. It's how depraved your heart becomes when fear gets pumped through it.

Fear only become powerful when you give it your power.

Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.

In running, I can internalize that intensity. I can handle it because it's me and I'm coming back in the next race. I'm always ready for the next race.

You see, what is my purpose of performance artist is to stage certain difficulties and stage the fear the primordial fear of pain, of dying, all of which we have in our lives, and then stage them in front of audience and go through them and tell the audience, 'I'm your mirror; if I can do this in my life, you can do it in yours.'

My music is about being strong, even in your vulnerability.

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.

Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Ultimately what I end up writing about is helplessness and the flipside of that, empowerment.

Never let your face show how hard they are taking your ass.

I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.

Inner strength is very important.

You can be a successful woman and also be vulnerable, and that's important to show people.

What we can do is control what we can control.

You find strength in your moments of weakness.

Exercises cultivated self-reliance - the foundation of courage.

Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty!

No matter how bad things get, you can still walk away.

Fear is trusting in your own power.