How do you relate to that quote? How about this next one??? Are you kidding yourself?
Are you glancing (quickly so you don't have to see)? Wearing rose-colored glasses? Avoiding looking at all? That's getting by and it won't give you the relationship and the experience with your horse that you have in your dreams.
I run into this daily when chatting with horse folks who minimize behavior and training issues that are a ticking time bomb. So many times folks don't want to address these issues as if they'll go away by themselves. They won't! 

Person goes out to lunge their horse here but how many things are wrong here? Quite a few. The length of the line and NEWS FLASH!!! it's not too long--it's too SHORT! How she's holding it. The intent of the horse. The position she was in in order to fall in that bad spot. The fact that the horse most likely knocked her over. The shoulder that doesn't give and probably instigated the nature of the fall.

There is a much better way, kids! Maybe you don't want to take riding lessons, maybe you don't want to send your horse for training, maybe you've used the line "I don't use the chain, it's just in case" about having a chain over your horse's nose or under the chin or inside the lip. But MAYBE you would like to know how nice this one aspect of relationship between you and your horse can be. If so, give me a holler. I'm setting up some new workshops and seminars or you can discover this privately with me.