Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. -Anais Nin.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

The shell is America's most active contribution to the formation of character. A tough hide. Grow it early.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.