Today is give-a-total-stranger-a-compliment day, in a bid to re-learn the giving of myself freely without expectation or fear of hurt. Really, there's no need to be so selfish with my love.

On a separate note, I am learning that the last thing I should fear is myself. If I am fearfully and wonderfully made, I am going to roll with it.

Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow.

~ Dorothy Thompson.