“Courage is not the absence of fear, but the decision that something is more important than fear.”

“I read once that courage is not the absence of fear, but the decision that something is more important than that fear.”

“I nodded, pretending to be a hundred times more courageous than I felt.But that was the thing about courage. Sometimes you had to fake it to feel it.”

“Sometimes the heart tells us to venture where the mind fears to tread.”

“If I live in fear of what might be, how can I truly live my life to the full in the present? And if I do not give myself to the day, to hope, to life, what do I miss?”

“If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.”

“Our faces were overly close, and in that moment something more passed between us. I’d never felt this kind of thing with a guy – such a connection. I knew, in my head, that we were practically strangers; but this thing – whatever it was – made me feel known. Seen. Acknowledged and appreciated and admired.”