Tesia

“Our hurts become our fears. Our fears become our limits.”
― Michelle Obama, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

“What does it mean to be comfortably afraid? For me, the idea is simple. It’s about learning to deal wisely with fear, finding a way to let your nerves guide you rather than stop you. It’s settling yourself in the presence of life’s inevitable zombies and monsters so that you may contend with them more rationally, and trusting your own assessment of what’s harmful and what’s not. When you live this way, you are neither fully comfortable nor fully afraid. You accept that there’s a middle zone and learn to operate inside of it, awake and aware, but not held back.”
― Michelle Obama, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

“Go forth with a spoonful of fear and return with a wagonful of competence.”
― Michelle Obama, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

“competence was a form of safety; knowing how to step forward despite our nerves was protection in and of itself.”
― Michelle Obama, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times