Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important - Stephen Covey

While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.

Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing.

If you organize your family life to spend even ten or fifteen minutes a morning reading something that connects you with these timeless principles, its almost guaranteed that you will make better choices during the day — in the family, on the job, in every dimension of life. Your thoughts will be higher. Your interactions will be more satisfying. You will have a greater perspective. You will increase that space between what happens to you and your response to it. You will be more connected to what really matters most.