I don’t wish for a perfect life, for in doing so I will have discarded the tremendous opportunities for great good that lay hidden in the greatest bad.

Remember, laying on the ground looking up grants us an invaluable perspective that will dramatically enhance what everything will look like when we’re back on our feet.

If I don’t ‘see’ life as a gift I might be ‘seeing’ something, but it’s not life.

Achievement without the privilege to achieve means that we can be thankful for the former when it happens, but we need to be thankful that the latter allowed it to happen.

Today is the one place where the lessons of a painful yesterday are drawn together to shape the face of a different tomorrow. And the phenomenal thing about all of that is that today happens seven days a week.

What am I owed except the responsibility to see life as a gift?

We can be seized with panic of the fall, or inspired by the potential that lies within the fall.

It’s not a lack of opportunity around me. Rather, it’s a lack of faith within me.

If we sacrifice the opportunity to sacrifice, what we have in fact sacrificed is the opportunity live.