“To live into the future means to leap into the unknown, and this requires a degree of courage for which there is no immediate precedent and which few people realize. What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed, every sensitive person has been… in this country. ...Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.”
-Existential psychologist Rollo May, from his book, “The Courage To Create,” 1994.