Words from Eleanor Roosevelt

From You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life (New York: Harper & Row, 1960):

Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.

These words appear on a placard for the Eleanor Roosevelt Fruit & Vegetable Garden at the Obama Presidential Center. Alas, the a that precedes step is missing there. I have to figure out how to let them know. (Now done.)

[We didn’t have tickets. We just enjoyed the grounds.]