Face Your Fears – Boldly Tackle the Dangers and Vicissitudes of Life!
“Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.” — Rabindranath Tagore
“There is in addition to a courage with which men die; a courage by which men must live.” These are the bold words of John F. Kennedy.
And indeed, staying afloat in the turbulent waters of life often requires us, to cultivate courage akin to that of a soldier in a battlefield. “Courage”, Mark Twain once said, “is the resistance to and mastery of fear – not the absence of fear.”
“Whether joy or sorrow,
Pain or pleasure,
Whatsoever may befall thee,
Accept it serenely with an unvanquished heart.”
Rabindranath Tagore quoting a verse from the Mahabharata, in a letter to his wife Mrinalini in 1898.
Source: Selected Letters of R. Tagore
We are not necessarily born courageous; but through life’s successive dips and depressions we slowly learn to acquire it.
Om Namah Shivay
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