In the vast majority of cases, what I ‘need’ is actually what I ‘want’ dressed in clever disguise.

Abundant living is realizing that life is a privilege whether it’s adhering to our scripts or not.

Sometimes you can have everything you want but fail to achieve anything you need.

Sometimes the thing that’s chasing me does so most effectively by leading me to believe that I’m chasing it.

I don’t know that our dreams died. Rather, I think that they were abandoned because that leaves us with the dream that maybe, in some nearly impossible way we can somehow still achieve the dream, for without a dream it us who dies.

If we chase the things that ‘tickle our ears,’ we’ll probably end up finding out that they’re going to ‘torture our lives.

Of course my dreams lay leagues outside the reach of my resources and the grasp of my abilities. For if I did not dream something wildly bigger than myself, I might have some really good ideas but I don’t have any dreams.

More often than not, the greatest opposition to my dreams isn’t something that stands in front of me. Rather, it’s something that resides within me.

I rigorously lament all of the many things that I don’t have. But in this self-imposed and rather lively pity-party to which I’ve invited myself, what I forget are the resources I do have that equip me to obtain what I don’t.