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

The definition of living is not based on the number of years spent, but on the degree to which we’ve spent ourselves in the living of them.

If the achieving of the goal was not enhanced by the effort to get there, you achieved something but it was not your goal.

Although I am convinced otherwise, what I ‘want’ empties me of all that I could ever need, while what I ‘need’ fills me with all that I could ever want. It’s just that I tend to have that all backwards most of the time, so I am empty all of the time.

Because you feel full doesn’t mean that you are.

I expend my days relentlessly attempting to design my life in a manner that is designed to meet the needs in my life. Yet, God did not design life to do that. Rather, He designed life to direct us to Him so that He could do that.

Greed grants us the illusion of fulfillment on the one hand, while it empties out the soul on the other. And if that’s the case, could it be that greed is a symptom of stupidity?

Preemptively interwoven into this ingeniously crafted existence is everything that we need to be everything that we are.

If my heart is set on pursuing real treasures, my mind must be fixed solely on the privilege of enjoying them and freed of the obsession of owning them.