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“Choosing a life of safety is safely choosing something other than life.”

Life Fear Security Comfort Safe Living Safety Choice Frightened Stability Choosing Apprehensive

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“If I see only my bias, I have surrendered to a single myopic lens through which to view the world. If I dare to surrender my bias, I will spend the rest of my life seeing the world and throwing away lenses.”

World Life Vision Opinion Perspective Living Point Of View Surrender Clarity Bias Biased Viewpoint Myopic Limited

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“If the ticking second hands in my head are never counting up to something but always seem to be counting down to something, I don’t need to reset the clock. Rather, I need to reset how I’m listening to it.”

Positive Listening Perception Negative Optimistic Pessimistic Ticking

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“Mankind is a mess. But messes are made to be cleaned up.”

Hope Mankind Clean Optimistic Mess Hopeful Clean Up

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“I live locked in the prison of my negative attitude. And despite the impenetrable walls that loom above me and about me, freedom is mine should I choose it. For the key of thankfulness will effortlessly open every door in every wall in every place like this one.”

Negative Prison Optimistic Negativity Thanksgiving Thankfulness Thankful Pessimistic Key

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“Life is only as bad as your attitude.”

Life Attitude Opinion Perspective Point Of View Optimistic Pessimistic

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“The sky’s not the thing that’s falling. Rather, it’s my attitude.”

Attitude Sky Positive Perspective Depression Negative Point Of View Falling

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“I would like to build a world where ‘detractors’ are more often the things that we see in farm fields preparing to grow food than those things that are dedicated to destroying lives.”

Growing Food Positive Negative Destruction Farm Detractor Tractor

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“As subtle as it appears, being thankful is in fact an utterly invincible attitude that has enough muscle to handily uproot the most negative attitudes that we can conjure up. And I would think that we would be thankful that we can actually have that much power working against all our negativity.”

Attitude Power Positive Perspective Negative Appreciate Thanksgiving Thankful

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“Maybe the greatest thing that I can be thankful for is the fact that God set aside a generous slice of eternity in order to create a world brimming with amazing things to be thankful for. And because He did, we have fooled ourselves into believing that we had to create the art of being jaded just to cope.”

God Christian Positive Negative Thanks Thanksgiving Blessings Thankful Jaded

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“Failure is only failure if you focus on what didn’t work rather than focusing on what could if you did it differently.”

Fear Positive Failure Negative Frightened Possibilities Fail

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“If I don’t ‘see’ life as a gift I might be ‘seeing’ something, but it’s not life.”

Life God Christian Opportunity Positive Perspective Negative Privilege Point Of View Gift

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“If there’s no answer to your question, it’s because you’ve looked in the places that have no ability to ask the question.”

Wisdom Answers Knowledge Experience Discernment Expertise Question

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“What most philosophies are marketing is disappointment.”

Philosophy Marketing Disappointment Deception Manipulation Beliefs False Philosophies

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“There is never too much water under the bridge if the bridge is still standing.”

Pain Water Loss Disappointment Trauma Wounds Bridge

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“We would be wise to understand that the utterly galling frustration of getting knocked down can be completely offset by understanding the far greater opportunities presented to us now that we have been handed a chance to get up.”

Wise Failure Defeat Disappointment Frustration Opportunities Knocked Down Galling

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“Life without a meaning that’s infinitely bigger than the sum total of my life is certain to calibrate a trajectory to a destination that’s not worth getting to.”

God Christian Jesus Failure Infinite Disappointment Goals Meaning Destination Trajectory

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“I wonder what life would have been like if I would have taken all that time I spent wondering what life would have been like, and instead used that time to make it what I wanted it to be like.”

Life Regret Disappointment Remorse Hindsight Wondering Missed Opportunities Wasted Squandered

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“If I could understand that every ‘reality’ was once a ‘wish’, and that it moved from the latter to the former because someone was committed enough to make it so, I’d be the person that I want verses the person I’ve become.”

Dream Reality Wish Vision Commitment Determination Disappointment Persistence Mediocrity Tenacity

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“To spend my days regretting what I’m not is to rob me of the energy I need to celebrate who I am.”

Self Esteem Regret Disappointment Self Confidence Celebrate Remorse Myself Self Regret

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“If I'm on the 'short-end of the stick', there's a really good chance that it was my shortness of vision that put me there.”

Faith Vision Failure Comfort Disappointment Mediocrity Retreat Familiarity

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“Because a door slammed shut, we assume that our dreams were slammed shut with it. Yet before we surrender to a closed door, it might be wise to take a moment and consider the fact that any dream is far too big not to have a couple of back doors.”

Loss Impossible Dreams Determination Disappointment Surrender Possibilities Failures Door Options

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“If I’m surprised at where I’m at, it’s probably because I’m not listening to the reality that listening to the voices that I’ve listened to have put me here. So, maybe I should be less surprised and more disappointed.”

Voice Influence Example Listening Surprise Disappointment Disappointed Role Models Mentor Influential Listen Heed Mentors Voices Surprised Examples Heeding

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“Expectations are the shackles that will not permit something to be what it actually is.”

Expectations Disappointment Permit Permission Disappoint Limitations Shackles Underrated Limit Disappointments Excessive Unrealistic Underrate

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“No person, collection of people, institution, government or organization of any kind can in any way promise to meet all of my needs for no person, collection of people, institution, government or organization possesses the array of resources necessary to do that. And so, I am left with the reality that either there is a God who can meet all of my needs, or I’ve been stranded in an existence that created me with needs that the existence itself cannot meet.”

Needs God Reality Creation Evolution Empty Disappointment Rejection Hopeless Disappointed Abandoned Hopelessness Intelligent Design Stranded Unmet

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“Consequences need not be the obstacles that I dread, but the direction that I need.”

Challenges Difficulty Errors Disappointment Obstacles Barriers Consequences Direction Discouragement Difficulties Failures Complication

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“Discouragement is the cancer of great things.”

Failure Defeat Cancer Disappointment Surrender Frustration Great Discouragement Discourage

Book:An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

Source: An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

“Many people villainize those who have stood against corrupt systems and have faced the brutal tyranny that is unleashed when people of integrity stand against the sinister agendas of the depraved. Others have blasted those who refused to align themselves with the prolific propagation of toxic ideals and have subsequently faced the wrath of those who (out of their own fear) demand blind adherence to those ideals. Yet, the greatest madness is not found in the fact that people do these things. Rather, the greatest madness is found in the fact that we do nothing about the fact that they’re doing these things.”

Culture Politics Ideals Madness Radical Deterioration Agenda

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“In the midst of our worried searching we recklessly abandon the treasures that life has bestowed upon us in the mad hunt for that which we wish to bestow upon ourselves.”

Madness Selfish Worried Abandon Search Hunt Treasures Recklessly

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“Looking back, I now realize that I left home in search of all the things that were right in the very place I left.”

Home Dream Purpose Hope Goal Destiny Dreams Journey Calling Seeking Goals Mission Exploring Explore Seek Search Aspirations Hopes Searching Hearts Desire Launch

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“If I am not touching a life, I am not touching life.”

Life Giving Helping Sacrifice Generosity Companion Touching Help Partnership Companionship Assistance Gifts Give Touch Interacting Assisting Sacrificing Interact

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“Greed would have us buy its tenets that those around us owe us an endless debt that we are free to collect by whatever means. But we would be far wiser to embrace a tenet of indebtedness and give to those around us by whatever means.”

Wisdom Appreciate Greed Value Appreciation Debt Discouragement

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“Wisdom involves appreciating the things that we didn’t achieve as much as we appreciate those that we did.”

Wisdom Gratitude Appreciate Value Appreciation Cherish Thankful Accomplishments Failures Successes

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“Sure we can cut grass. But we can’t even create a single blade of that which we’re cutting. And I often wonder if our inability to create drives our desire to manage which robs us of the ability to appreciate.”

God Fear Creation Ignorance Appreciate Creator Manage Create

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“The most impoverished people of all are those who have everything but appreciate nothing.”

Poor Appreciate Appreciation Impoverished

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“The finish line is the culmination of a journey. As such, we should never pay it so much attention that the culmination of the journey becomes the whole of the journey at the expense of the journey”

Enjoy Race Journey Appreciate Driven Destination Finish Line Finish Contemplate

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“It is until I can no longer hold something in my hands that I often realize that I never really cherished it in my heart.”

Heart Hands Loss Grief Appreciate Value Cherish Touch Hold Savor

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“As a child, I would sit at the top of the old towering pine and watch the world gloriously spread itself out at my feet. And it wasn’t until I climbed that tree many decades later that it dawned on me how much I have trampled that world under my feet. And so, maybe I need to do a lot more climbing and a lot less walking.”

Feet Appreciate Abuse Value Cherish Entitled Vantage Point Climb Owed

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“If for even a moment I would pull myself away from this mad search for everything that I don't have to take a look at everything that I do have, this mad search would instantly devolve into a calm peace. And if there’s one thing I don’t have that has driven this mad search, you can bet that this is probably it.”

Peace Appreciate Value Seeking Driven Cherish Desires Thanksgiving Possessions

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“Reinventing myself is a result of not appreciating myself. As such, that kind of reinvention needs an intervention.”

Self Self Esteem Appreciate Self Confidence Esteem Intervention Invent Reinvent

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“Everything that I hold will eventually be gone. Subsequently, the quality of my life will depend on whether I choose to appreciate those things ‘now’ or wait until ‘then.”

Life Wisdom Waiting Wise Fool Appreciate Value Appreciation Foolish Materialism Temporary Thanksgiving Thankfulness Fleeting Thankful Quality Of Life Wait Temporal

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“If I continually focus on what I don’t have, my life will always be completely empty despite the fact that it’s completely full.”

“In a very tragic kind of way, sometimes things have to be gone before I fully realize that they were ever there.”

“At the very point that I’ve taken something for granted, I have at that same moment taken it to its grave. And if I look around, I realize I’ve cultivated quite a cemetery.”

Rights Ignorance Appreciate Value Appreciation Selfish Foolish Granted Buried Entitled Careless Entitlement Kill Cemetery Grave Killed Bury Terminated Terminate

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“Until I realize that it’s all I gift, I can hold all of it and yet receive none of it.”

Opportunity Awareness Appreciate Empty Privilege Gift Acknowledge Opportunities Thanksgiving Thankfulness Thankful Hollow Aware Hold Receive Privileges Realize Realization

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“To be ignorant of the sacrifices of others that yielded the blessings I enjoy leaves me exchanging the reality of 'blessing' for the assumption of 'entitlement.' And once that happens, I will forfeit the reality of the former which will destroy the assumption of the latter. And in what terribly dark place will that now leave me?”

“To judge someone is to say that I have the right to define who they are, verses understanding that God has handed me the priceless privilege of discovering who they are.”

People God Humanity Understanding Judging Appreciate Privilege Determine Judgement Discovering Know Priceless Others Discover Judge Judging Others Define Declare

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Starting over begins when I develop a reawakened appreciation for what I already have, a renewed recognition of what I’ve recklessly forsaken, a rehabilitated understanding that I foolishly do both of those things, and a revitalized commitment to live the rest of my life never doing either of them again.”

“To savor the simple privilege that every day I have a sunrise to bathe in, a storehouse of opportunities to romp through, the thick wrap of relationships to keep me warm, a God who meticulously tends to every detail round about me, and it all costs me not a dime. What madness would keep me from being eternally thankful for all that?”

God Relationships Blessing Eternal Appreciate Grateful Thanks Opportunities Free Thanksgiving Blessings Thankful Gifts Gratefulness Privileges

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“Anything great will only be appreciated if I am given the opportunity to feel the absence of it, or experience the reversal of it. It is only then that I can even begin to understand its majesty and cherish it in the manner I should have all along.”

Regret Appreciate Regard Shame Sacred Value Absence Esteem Cherish Diminish Appreciated Reversal Regretful Cheapen

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An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and JesusRelated source material

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