another huffington gem

this is the reason i read huffpost.com, the way arianna strings words together & makes it look so effortlessly and yet still spot on.

My countryman Socrates said that courage is the knowledge of what is not to be feared. And so often in our lives the things we are most afraid of are actually little more than shadow and fog, illusory manifestations of our free-floating anxieties. As Montaigne put it: "There were many terrible things in my life, but most of them never happened."