I ask, ‘Is the cup half-empty or half-full?’ And when I ask that question, I am amazed at how many people have no cup.

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.

Life is not something to be “done.” Rather, it is something to be “lived.” And to confuse the former with the latter is to squander both.

It’s not that I’ve ‘faked my own death’ as the saying goes. Maybe it’s that I’ve ‘faked my own life,’ and in doing so I’ve yet to realize how dead I really am.

It is in the grand contradictions of the deepest soul that great moments of life are afoot.

The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of all.

I might define a ‘journey’ as something that life itself calls me to. And I might then define a ‘trip’ as something I create to avoid a journey by mimicking a journey. And while fear is most certainly part and parcel of both, the latter is emboldened by fear while the former surrenders to it.

Life is not random, for randomness is simply purpose that we’ve yet to discern.

I have diligently disciplined my life to search out life’s gifts in the places where life stores its scraps.