McNeely Chronicles of an affirmative Life

I love Nelson Mandela:
here's something he said that really inspires me and I wanted to make sure and share it with everyone because that's worth doing!!

"I learned that COURAGE is not the ABSENCE of FEAR, but the TRIUMPH over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, be he who conquers that fear."

This gives me a new way to relate to those frightful feelings we all sometimes have, "am I good enough?",
"am I valued by others?", "is my life meaningful?", "have I, do I, will I love those I love the way the need it, when they need it?", "can I do this thing I'm trying to do?"
or whatever your fears are...maybe the words of a man who spent the majority of his adult life in prison-
who understands fear in the most intimate of ways can remind us all that "all we have to fear is fear itself" (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, from his inaugural address).