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“The line that we chart into our future is often more a circle that brings us back to our past. And it might be that there is some hidden intent in charting circles in that we can feel like were mov...”
“To fall is not to fail. To fail is to never fall because I never got up in the first place.”
“Apathy is unconditional surrender where we are driven into hiding by unrealistic fear, and firmly held there by the misinformed belief that we are helpless to do anything other than hide. Therefore...”
“Is the goal Ive set been determined by a desire to avoid the goal I should have set?”
“Because I have chosen to see something as impossible, theres a good chance that its not.”
“Surrendering is intentionally laying down the power I possess. And have I considered that the power I lay down is often more powerful than that which Im laying it down in front of? Therefore, I wou...”
“I would suggest that the prisons I incessantly create are not designed to lock me in, rather they are designed to lock the world out. And the oddity is that either way, I am a prisoner who has sent...”
“I do not walk into the storm unless I have been called into the storm. For the former is arrogance and the latter is obedience.”
“If Im perplexed by the fact that Im constantly lost, maybe somewhere in my head Ive determined that being lost serves a greater purpose than being found.”
“However far Ive come, its probably somewhere less than halfway of where I could be if I simply believed in myself.”
“If truth be told, the easy road is nothing more than an armchair in clever disguise. And if you look around, it seems that there are a whole lot of people in the furniture business.”
“Undoubtedly, failure is growth in pains disguise.”
“Failure is information encased in a shell of pain.”
“I have finally come to realize that its being forced to be honest with myself thats made my pain painful all along.”
“Thankfully, the nature of pain reminds us of what the ease of pleasure foolishly allows us to forget.”
“For love to eliminate pain is to waste it, for it is love alone that possesses sufficient force to bend pain against everything that would break us.”
“Without mountains, we might find ourselves relieved that we can avoid the pain of the ascent, but we will forever miss the thrill of the summit. And in such a terribly scandalous trade-off, it is t...”
“Although Ive been thoroughly conditioned by pain to see it otherwise, an ending is nothing more than the backside of a beginning.”
“Pain is nothing but growth waiting for us to give it permission to grow us up.”
“Once I realize that the tune Im whistling in my head is the theme thats driving my heart, I suddenly realize that the most important question I can ask is, What are the lyrics?”
