Friday ~ December 11, 2015

The encouraging thing is that every time you met a situation, though you may think at the time it is am impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you you ever were before. If you can live through that, you can live through anything. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face... The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it. If you fail anywhere along the line, it will take away your confidence. You must make yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

(Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884 - 1962 )