"The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may
think at the time it is an 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 ever were before. If you can live through that you can
live through anything. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every
experience in which you stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to
yourself, `I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes
along.' 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
