It's not about breaking down borders. It's about pushing off of them, and seeing what amazing places they might bring us.

We live as if we know how everything will turn out. I certainly lived that way. But we don't know anything. Really, we don't.

We can either see our circumstances as a set of random cruelties and then allow those hardships to turn us into bitter victims; or we can recognize the fact that, though we may never comprehend why hard things happen, they do, and when they do, we can reach for a larger purpose beyond the pain.

It's not about breaking down borders. It's about pushing off of them, and seeing what amazing places they might bring us.

When disease took my legs, I eventually realized I didn't need them to lead a full, empowering life; Only True Disability Is in Our Mind.

Instead of looking at our challenges and limitations as something negative or bad, we can begin to look at them as blessings, magnificent gifts that can be used to ignite our imaginations and help us go further than we ever knew we could go.

Our borders and our obstacles can only do two things: (1) stop us in our tracks, or (2) force us to get creative.