Courage

I loved this paragraph from one of my textbooks, Current Psychotherapies:

Because life constantly poses challenges, living demands courage. Courage is not an ability one either possesses or lacks. Nor is courage synonymous with bravery, such as falling in a grenade to save one's buddies from injury or death. Courage is the willingness to engage in risk-taking behaviour either when one does not know the consequences or when the consequences might be adverse. We are all capable of courageous behavior, provided we are willing to engage in it. Our willingness will
depend on many variables, internal and external, such as our life-style convictions, our degree of social interest, the extent of risk as we appraise it, and whether we are task-oriented or prestige-oriented. Given that life offers few guarantees, all living requires risk taking. It would require very little courage to live if we were perfect, omniscient, or omnipotent. The question we must each answer is whether we have the courage to live despite the knowledge of our imperfections.

based on this, i know a ton of courageous people.