"Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed." ― Mason Cooley Topic(s): Courage More From Mason Cooley "Even cats grow lonely and anxious." "Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm." "Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera." More In Courage "We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy."― Stokely Carmichael "A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right, rather than what is easy."― Suze Orman "The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt."― Paul Tillich