"Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live."
"Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow."
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Source: Dorothy Thompson (1957). “The Courage to be Happy”
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