The thing about pain is it demands to be felt. Somebody will feel it. If you don’t feel your own pain, it doesn’t go away, you just pass it on to the people around you.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious
and uncertain, is floating
in mid-air, until it is secured for all of us and
incorporated into our common life.
