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1 " Life was more than words. It was laughter and love, faith and joy, and mostly it was the deep peace came from living life fiercely without regret. "
― Mia Sheridan , More Than Words
2 " Sometimes the beginning of love is just a simple matter of proximity. "
3 " Live fiercely and without regret. "
4 " For how is there bravery if there is no fear? "
5 " But life, I supposed, didn’t always offer closure. "
6 " I knew from experience that people didn’t change because they were begged to do so. People changed only when they made the choice to change on their own. "
7 " I wanted to believe that love was the rarest of all flowers: it delighted in the sunshine but did not require it to grow and flourish. "
8 " Is this the true definition of bravery: being afraid but acting anyway? Following the dictates of your faith and your heart straight into the battle for which you’ve been called? It seems to me to be so. For how is there bravery if there is no fear? "
9 " Fairy tales helped me disappear into worlds where princes were loyal and honest and where princesses were strong and brave. "
10 " there was no real bravery without fear "
11 " One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying." - Joan of Arc "
12 " All battles are first won or lost, in the mind. —Joan of Arc "
13 " Something moved between us, a charge in the air that made my stomach tighten. Like cresting the peak of a roller coaster and anticipating the drop. Fear. And delight. "
14 " Coincidence. Fate. Were they one and the same? "
15 " The pain, the doubts, the echoes of the words that had once sliced like knives, the scabs that still bled so easily, all that hurt faded away and there was only her. "
16 " If he wasn’t willing to fight for himself, his own battles, perhaps he wouldn’t be able to fight for me either. "
17 " Some battles could only be fought alone. "
18 " Was…was that how God worked? Did he send people to save us when we needed saving? Signs? Small guides? "
19 " All battles are first won or lost, in the mind." —Joan of Arc "
20 " One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying. - Joan of Arc "