Look at what you've been through. Look at what you've survived. Think for a moment about the challenges you've faced, and how you have persevered. Acknowledge in your heart how you have come back from setbacks, disappointments and letdowns.

While you may not think of yourself as courageous, you are. You used your courage to get back up, rise out of the ashes of defeat and disappointment, and try again, and again. It took courage for you to just make it to where you are now, and you're going to use that courage going forward and for the rest of your life.

"Loving, accepting and looking for the good in others may be like polishing something or someone to find their apparent beauty or wisdom is really yours reflected back."
--John N. DeFoore, Jr.

"You have to have courage to love somebody. Because you risk everything...everything."
--​Maya Angelou

"​​Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
--Winston S. Churchill

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

--E.E. Cummings

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