Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.
We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...
You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.
It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.