It's courage that counts. A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine with only interests.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be done. Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace, the soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things. An English professor wrote the words, 'Woman without her man is nothing' on the blackboard and directed his students to punctuate it correctly.