Ye'll never best your fears until ye face them

But life, if nothing else, had taught her promises weren't always to be counted on, and what appeared at first a shining chance might end in bitter disappointment.

When I meet a wind I cannot fight , I can do naught but set my sails to let it take me where it will.

Life is always uncertain,'he said with a shrug. 'We cannot let the fear of what might happen stop us living as we choose.

Knowing that the battle will not end the way he wishes does not make it any less worthwhile the fight.

..the fields might fall to fallow and the birds might stop their song awhile; the growing things might die and lie in silence under snow, while through it all the cold sea wore its face of storms and death and sunken hopes...and yet unseen beneath the waves a warmer current ran that, in its time, would bring the spring.

Tis never the place, but the people one shares it with who are the cause of our happiest memories.