Dare Quote by Terry Tempest Williams

“The heart is the path to wisdom because it dares to be vulnerable in the presence of power”

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“I write to make peace with the things I cannot control. I write to create red in a world that often appears black and white. I write to discover. I write to uncover. I write to meet my ghosts. I write to begin a dialogue. I write to imagine things differently and in imagining things differently perhaps the world will…

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Hope is not attached to outcomes but is a state of mind.

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I accept the Organic Trinity of Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal with as much authority as I accept the Holy Trinity. Both are sacred.

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“I believe we must do things in our lives for the right reasons, because we enjoy doing them, with no expectation of getting something back in return. Otherwise, we are constantly being disappointed." She moved her turquoise bracelet back and forth on her wrist. "So I had two sons, John and Richard, because I wanted to, not because I thought…

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down with ought with because with every brain that thinks it thinks nor dares to feel.

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I should not dare to call my soul my own.

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Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.

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Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

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The privilege of prayer to me is one of the most cherished possessions, because faith and experience alike convince me that God himself sees…

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Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields,…

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The male dares to be different to the degree that he accepts his passivity and his desire to be female, his fagginess. The farthest out male is the dragqueen, but he, although different from most men, is exactly like all other dragqueens; like the functionalist, he has an identity - a female; he tries to define all his troubles away…

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