Courage is the power to face difficulties. Obstacles will always look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small. Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined. It gives you the ability to rise above reality. See things as you would have them be instead of as they are.
Overcoming obstacles is the price of achievement, the price of success.
I was originally sucked off the highway by a passing tractor-trailer. The suction created pulled me out under his trailer wheels. It would take too long to explain how much that event affected me. Over the last 20 years, I have watched Congress hand down one cutback after another. I was getting benefits and still ended up homeless for 7 years.