“Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers,
but to be fearless in facing them.

Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but
for the heart to conquer it.”

—  Rabindranath Tagore

Source: Collected Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore

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