It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.
- Greek Proverb



Feel the fear...and do it anyways...

Get busy living...or get busy dying...

....if you are going through hell....keep on walking through it..

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that there is something else more important than the fear.

"For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed in us". (Romans 8:18)

Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace. -Jerry Bridges



Feel the fear...and do it anyways...

Get busy living...or get busy dying...

....if you are going through hell....keep on walking through it..

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that there is something else more important than the fear.

"For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed in us". (Romans 8:18)

When life knocks you on your knees….
….you are in a perfect position to pray!
Dave Tait
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Feel the fear...and do it anyways...

Get busy living...or get busy dying...

....if you are going through hell....keep on walking through it..

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that there is something else more important than the fear.

"For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed in us". (Romans 8:18)

[b] Quotations To Ponder In Our Recovery
The ten most powerful two-letter words: If it is to be, it is up to me.

Sign on my wall reads: "Good morning. This is your Higher Power speaking. I will not be needing your help today."

We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns.

Angels can fly because they take themselves so lightly!

It is not the YETS we have to worry about...it's the AGAINS.

Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

The brook would lose its song if we removed the rocks.

The ultimate lesson all of us have is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well. ~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross~

Saying Hello to the unknown takes faith. Saying Goodbye to the familiar takes courage.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves and not to twist them to fit our own image.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. ~Proust~

Change is what happens when the pain of holding on becomes greater than the fear of Letting Go.

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness. ~James Thurber~

Everything that happens to you is your teacher. The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it.

When nobody around you seems to measure up, it's time to check your own yardstick.

You can't think your way into right living... you have to live your way into right thinking.

I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains. ~Anne Frank~

Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still.

What is right for one soul may not be right for another. It may mean standing on your own and doing something strange in the eyes of others.

Truly loving means letting go of unrealistic expectations. It means full acceptance...even celebration of another's personhood.

Life might be able to be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.

Learn to Let Go. That is the key to happiness. ~Buddha~

What you are afraid to do is a clear indicator of the next thing you need to do.

Worry is like a rocking chair -- it gives you something to do but it doesn't get you anywhere.



Serenity isn't freedom from the storm; it's peace within the storm.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the flower leaves on the heel of the one that crushed it.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

The task ahead of us is never as great as the Power within us.

No one can choose your mountain or tell you when to climb. It's yours alone to challenge, at your own pace and time.

Find a way to be thankful for your troubles, and they can become your blessings.

The goal of recovery is balance, but sometimes we get there by going to extremes.

Put as much energy into Letting Go as you have in trying to control. You'll get much better results.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Accepting doesn't necessarily mean liking, enjoying, or condoning. I can accept the reality of what is -- and be determined to evolve from there. It is not acceptance but denial that leaves me stuck.
~ Nathaniel Branden~

Hope is the thing with feathers...that perches in the soul...and sings the tune without words...and never stops, at all.
~Emily Dickinson~

Instead of pointing a finger, we should hold out our hand.

We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.
~Gloria Gaither~

We must each paint our rainbows from the colors we are given.
~Joan Walsh Anglund~

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
~Abraham Lincoln~

Regret is

There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.
- Robert Fripp

Feel the fear...and do it anyways...

Get busy living...or get busy dying...

....if you are going through hell....keep on walking through it..

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that there is something else more important than the fear.

"For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed in us". (Romans 8:18)

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Photo of Cross against the sky - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Feel the fear...and do it anyways...

Get busy living...or get busy dying...

....if you are going through hell....keep on walking through it..

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that there is something else more important than the fear.

"For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed in us". (Romans 8:18)

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’
- Martin Luther King, Jr.



Feel the fear...and do it anyways...

Get busy living...or get busy dying...

....if you are going through hell....keep on walking through it..

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that there is something else more important than the fear.

"For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed in us". (Romans 8:18)

People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.
The biggest person with the biggest ideas can be
shot down by the smallest person with the smallest mind.
Think big anyway.
What you spend years building may
be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.
People really need help but may attack if you help them.
Help people anyway.
Give the world the best you have
and you might get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you've got anyway.
- Anonymous

Feel the fear...and do it anyways...

Get busy living...or get busy dying...

....if you are going through hell....keep on walking through it..

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that there is something else more important than the fear.

"For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed in us". (Romans 8:18)

"We are not made for the mountains, for sunrises, or for the other beautiful attractions in life - those are simply intended to be moments of inspiration. We are made for the valley and the ordinary things of life and that is where we have to prove our stamina and strength."
Oswald Chambers


Feel the fear...and do it anyways...

Get busy living...or get busy dying...

....if you are going through hell....keep on walking through it..

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that there is something else more important than the fear.

"For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed in us". (Romans 8:18)

Never think that God’s delays are God’s denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.

Georges-Louis Leclere De Buffon


Feel the fear...and do it anyways...

Get busy living...or get busy dying...

....if you are going through hell....keep on walking through it..

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that there is something else more important than the fear.

"For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed in us". (Romans 8:18)

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.
- Elie Weisel

Feel the fear...and do it anyways...

Get busy living...or get busy dying...

....if you are going through hell....keep on walking through it..

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that there is something else more important than the fear.

"For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed in us". (Romans 8:18)

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
~ Mark Twain (1835-1910) ~



Feel the fear...and do it anyways...

Get busy living...or get busy dying...

....if you are going through hell....keep on walking through it..

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that there is something else more important than the fear.

"For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed in us". (Romans 8:18)

Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese Proverb



Feel the fear...and do it anyways...

Get busy living...or get busy dying...

....if you are going through hell....keep on walking through it..

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that there is something else more important than the fear.

"For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed in us". (Romans 8:18)

He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
- Isaiah 40:29-31

Feel the fear...and do it anyways...

....if you are going through hell....keep on walking through it..

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that there is something else more important than the fear.

"For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed in us". (Romans 8:18)

Quotes on Perseverance


It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Albert Einstein

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
Helen Keller

Fall seven times. Stand up eight.
Japanese proverb

Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.
Dag Hammarskjold

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas Edison

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge

I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost more than 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. . . . And that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan

Champions keep playing until they get it right.
Billie Jean King




All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of you first.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
Brian Tracy

The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.
Ted W. Engstrom

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired.
Robert Strauss



Feel the fear...and do it anyways...

....if you are going through hell....keep on walking through it..

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that there is something else more important than the fear.

"For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed in us". (Romans 8:18)