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

If I can draw the slightest smile across a single face obliterated by pain, in that act I will have begun to understand the power of an ordinary human being to perform the seemingly impossible in the life of another human being. And how can that experience do anything less than drive me to try and make the world smile.

I need something to remind me that happiness is a gift, not a right. Pain does that quite expertly.

We have come to see pain as the antithesis of happiness. Yet without the experience of pain we would not appreciate the experience of happiness.