Leigh Bardugo: "Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return."

Becoming fearless isn’t the point. That’s impossible. It’s learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.

Sometimes it’s easy to feel like you’re the only one in the world who’s struggling, who’s frustrated, or unsatisfied, or barely getting by. That feeling is a lie. And if you just hold on, just find the courage to face it all for another day. Someone or something will find you and make it all okay, because we all need a little help sometimes, someone to help us hear the music in the world, to remind us that it won’t always be this way. That someone is out there, and that someone will find you.

Two of the hardest tests in life: The patience to wait for the right moment and the courage to accept whatever you encounter.