Pretending is the outcome of desperately wanting to achieve something, but forfeiting it to the whimsy of imagination because we lack the faith to believe that we could achieve it. And if we actually started to pretend that we could achieve it, in time maybe we wouldn’t have to pretend anymore.

If something didn’t happen, it’s probably not that it couldn’t. Rather, it’s more that we chose not to believe that it could.

Whatever stands in front of you was only allowed to be put there because inherent within you there lays the ability to climb it. Therefore, the real difficulty of an ascent such as this is not the nature of the mountain that stands in front of us, but the nature of the attitude that lays within us.

Love is a choice as much as it is a feeling. For without the former, the latter doesn’t have a chance.

It is not about what today was. It is about what tomorrow could be.

Apathy is giving up when we need to get up.

I yearn not for the easy path, but for the right path.  For 'easy' and 'right' are rarely compatible.

With God, a mountain before me is soon to be a memory behind me.

Love stands even when the desire to love doesn’t.