Courage doesn’t defeat fear or erase fear or adjust to fear. Courage acts, plain and simple, in the midst of fear.

Courage isn’t being a dragon. Neither is it behaving like a dragon. Nor is it taking up arms to fight and defeat dragons. Courage is being a lamb standing with poise among dragons.

Mad fearlessness is not courage. The only requirement for courage is a good heart.

Gratitude possesses all the energy of a sunbeam. That is how it makes life blossom.

On a grim and dismal day that shattered my last ounce of confidence, I broke down and whimpered, “I’m awful and hideous and incompetent and boring and utterly useless.” And then you grinned at me and said, “That’s okay.

Kindness is going out of your way to perform favors regarded as wonderful by the recipient.