“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
Theodore Roosevelt
"Vulnerability is the birthplace of courage. And courage is not doing something because you're fearless. Courage is doing something because you may be afraid and you do it anyway."
Col. Dede Halfhill
A BIG Thank You to all those in the Arena right now, risking your physical and mental health, and then being judged and slammed by the very people you are trying to help. I may not always agree with what you are doing, that is okay. There seems to be no circumstance and resulting action that everyone will ever agree on and if we all waited to find the perfect answer before taking any action this world would be unfit to live in so thank you for doing what you can for all of us in spite of all the criticism from the sidelines, What you are doing counts and I admire and appreciate your courage.
There is no scale to heroic action... anything we do to face a fear and help someone else is heroic and has a ripple effect that cannot be measured. No act is too small to count!!
May those ripples inspire more of us to recognize that hiding from our fear gives fear the power and give us the strength to face and break through the cages fear puts us in.
Today's paradox: in not standing up to our fears we end up a bully to ourselves trying to hide it.
(yes I've used the Theodore Roosevelt quote before, I intend to make a copy for my wall framed in barbed wire to remind me everyday of how want to live and the exhilaration of breaking past fear's restraints)
Acknowledgement: both of today's quotes were sourced from Brene Brown from this link:
Cheers
Jeanne
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