The world breaks everyone,

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. Ernest Hemingway

When you look fear

When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ Eleanor Roosevelt

Courage is more exhilarating

Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over night. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down. Eleanor Roosevelt

We gain strength, and

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face… we must do that which we think we cannot. Eleanor Roosevelt

That which does not

That which does not kill us makes us stronger. Friedrich Nietzsche