Smart and insightful people throughout the ages remind us that courage is not the absence of fear, but is recognizing that you are fearful and pushing on anyway.  For fear, like many other things in life, creates it's opposite through it's presence.  There is no light without darkness, no insight without confusion and no courage without fear.  Do not seek a life a life that is absence of fear, but recognize those situations and circumstances in which you are fearful and move through it .  Fear cannot be suppressed or ignored, but it can be managed by moving directly towards it and that is courage.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.  E.E. Cummings

It is curage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.  Horace

The best way out is always through.  Robert Frost