"If you're going to discover the life God created you to live, you have to learn to say no to all other options. And the tough choices aren't between good and evil, but between all the equally good options out there that are simply not the right paths for you. You have to allow even the beautiful dreams to die when they are not supposed to be yours. To make even one dream come to a reality, many other dreams have to be sacrificed on the altar of your imagination. I love the insight that the word 'decide' is Latin for "to cut." Every one of us is a surgeon. We live lives cutting away every potential future we reject and giving life to the one we choose. Every choice required us to sacrifice one or more possibilities for the life we have chosen." - E. McManus on Wide Awake