Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fearis that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves,who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be? Your a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We werebornto make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It's not justin some of us; it's in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine,
We unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically
Liberates others."

-1994 Inaugural Speech.
Nelson Mandela.

-Proverbs 18:24
A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.