Keeping a promise is too often contingent upon how we feel about keeping the promise, and that means that what we’ve really been promised is the promise that the promise is not a promise.

To tell ourselves that we can’t change the story of our lives is to errantly assume that we are nothing more than the characters in it verses being the authors of it.

It’s never what stands around us. Rather, it’s always what resides within us.

If I am the main character in my story, the script will be palpably shallow and the character development will be anything but compelling.

I can tell you who I am, but I’d rather have you watch who I am.

To fall down is to face the weakness of my humanity, test the mettle of my character, and push the limits of my strength. Therefore, falling down will tell me who I am far more clearly than most things I might learn when I’m standing up.

Humility is the greatest shaper of souls and crafter of character, for it wipes away all the grandiose things that we spend so much of our lives pretending to be, so that we can spend all of our lives being the exceptional person that we were actually created to be.