Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.

Loving the ideal more than the reality is the cause of all the misery the human species creates for itself.

Hope, however, isn't all that's needed to achieve change. Hope is a hand extended, but two hands are required to be pulled out of this deep hole. The second hand was faith.

Are you prepared for the first wound?

He was sure that he was not the cause of the abrupt silence. His passage through the canyon had not previously disturbed either birds or cicadas. Something was out there. An intruder of which the ordinary forest creatures clearly did not approve. He took a deep breath and held it again, straining to hear the slightest movement in the woods. This time he detected the rustle of brush, a snapping twig, the soft crunch of dry leaves-and the unnervingly peculiar, heavy, ragged breathing of something big.

I fall down on the side of free will, simply because if you look at where I came from, and what I was able to do in my life, what was able to happen.

When tempest tossed, embrace chaos