Courage is the price life exacts for granting peace

This quote by Amelia Earhart, foremost woman aviator and the first woman to fly over Atlantic, actually forms the opening line of her poem titled "Courage":

Courage
Courage is the price which life exacts for granting peace.
The soul that knows it not, knows no release
From little things;
Knows not the livid loneliness of fear
Nor mountain heights, where bitter joy you can hear
The sound of wings.

How can life grant us boon of living, compensate,
For dull gray ugliness and pregnant hate
Unless we dare
The soul's dominion? Each time we make a choice we pay
With courage to behold resistless day
And count it fair.


No other quote I have heard, I believe is more closer to truth than this: Courage is the price life exacts for granting peace.

Speaking of courage, Swami Vivekanand says, "From all our vedas and upanishads if we were to pick out just one word that's more important than all others, it's abhih - fearlessness! Always say, 'I have no fear'. It is fear that brings misery, fear that brings death, fear that breeds evil. You have to go beyond all fear. So from this day be fearless."

Indeed, there can be no peace without courage. As I struggle each day towards peace, I pray I shall never fail to have enough courage.