Of course I don’t want to get knocked down. But the single and sole solution to that fear is to not go anywhere where I can be knocked down. And is that not already being knocked down?

If I am brave enough to stand against those who have been groomed by fear, I will recognize that where I get knocked down is all about where life begins, and has nothing to do with where it ends.

Discouragement is the cancer of great things.

The greatest ‘victory’ in any victory is that I didn’t make it about myself.

I can pretend to be my own god, but I have an awfully hard time pretending that failing to be a god didn’t happen.

The hole that I’m in wasn’t a hole until I dug it.

Sometimes we are so caught up in the disappointment of plans gone astray that we fail to recognize the potentially new options that might now exist.