Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with read more

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.

For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again. [Proverbs 24:16].

For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again. [Proverbs 24:16].

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less read more

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

The brave man is not he who feels no fear. For that were stupid and irrational. But he, whose noble read more

The brave man is not he who feels no fear. For that were stupid and irrational. But he, whose noble soul its fears subdues, and bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with read more

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging read more

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone read more

Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.