Our choices show what we truly are far more than our abilities.
Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all... In which case, you fail by default.
It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.