Sometimes consequences are building blocks fashioned of granite when successes are shaped of clay.

If we abandon the past in the pursuit of the future, we’ve left all of the construction materials behind. So, we might show up at the site, but we’re not going to be building anything.

An exceptional future can only be built on the transformation of the mess I’ve made out of my past, not the elimination of that mess.

Pain is the perfecting of our souls, for it cuts in order to create, it hurts in order to hone, and it knocks us down with great force so that our resolve to get up becomes unimaginably greater than the force that knocked us down. And although we have come to know it differently, such is the spirit of pain.