COURAGE

My sweet friend Deborah sent these quotes to me and I loved them so much that I wanted to share them with ya'll.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity to act despite our fears.
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If fear is a condition of courage, so too is love. It is love that makes us willing to sacrifice, love that gives us courage.
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Love makes courage necessary. And it's love that makes courage possible for all of us to possess. You get courage by loving something more than your own well-being.
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If you do the thing you think you cannot do, you'll feel your resistance, your hope, your dignity, and your courage grow stronger. You will someday face harder choices that very well might require more courage. And when those moments come and you choose well, your courage will be recognized by those who matter most to you. When your children see you choose, without hesitation, without remark, to value virtue more than security, to love more than you fear, they will learn what courage looks like and what love serves, and they will dread its absence.

We're all afraid of something. The one fear we must all guard against is the fear of ourselves. Don't let the sensation of fear convince you that you're too weak to have courage. Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice. No one is born a coward. We were meant to love. And we were meant to have the courage for it."

Senator John McCain