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“We are either running to something, or running from something. But possibly the most dangerous running of all is to deny that we’re running in the first place.”

Life Running Faith Choices Fear Deny Flight Denial Fight

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“If truth were to be told, how often is being ‘lost’ a result of the decision I have made to never be ‘found’?”

Truth Running Choices Lost Fear Foolish Decisions Escape Flee

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“Of course I don’t want to remember, for that gives me permission to repeat the very same things I know I shouldn’t have done in the first place.”

Wisdom Remember Choices Thoughtful Permission Foolishness Consequences

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“Too many of us spend our lives incessantly running only to find ourselves completely lost because our running was driven by fear and not inspired by a destination.”

Running Choices Lost Destination Consequences Fleeing Floundering

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“Far too much of my life is defined by ‘ready, fire, aim,’ which explains why my target has no holes in it.”

Life Choices Determination Aim Defined Target

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“If I wonder how I got here, I could start but wondering why I made the decisions that got me to the very place I say I don’t want to be.”

Choices Stupid Foolish Decisions Consequences Irresponsible Outcome

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“If I have decided something without first thinking about it, the real decision I’ve made is to not think.”

Thinking Wisdom Choices Foolish Decisions Thoughtful Foresight

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“Running suggests that I’m either haunted by fear or driven by conviction. And which of these two I’m responding to will determine if I’m running ‘from’ something or running ‘to’ something.”

Life Running Choices Fear Conviction Flight Decisions Haunted

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“I frequently prefer to ‘pretend’ to live for that allows me to completely avoid the cost I am certain to incur in actually living. However, it also robs me of the rewards. With that being the case, I might be wise to ask where the real cost actually lays?”

Life Choices Wise Cost Personal Growth Fake Live Pretend

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“I will be the recipient of the consequences of believing that there are none.”

Wisdom Choices Ignorance Foolish Decisions Consequences Discernment Repercussions

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“Choose your war well, for maybe the biggest coward of all is not the one that flees from the battle, but the one who chooses to fight the wrong one.”

War Wisdom Choices Battle Bravery Coward Fight Bold

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“Too often life is like a pot of stew that we made without a recipe. A lot of things got in there that shouldn’t have, a lot of things that should have didn’t, and everyone around the table would rather starve than eat it.”

Life Choices Foolish Decisions Recipes Impulsive Stew Starve Reactive

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“Every decision will build a bridge or a barrier. Therefore, what stands in front of you at this moment illustrates the decisions that you made on your way to this moment.”

Wisdom Choices Decisions Foolishness Consequences Moment Bridge Barrier

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“A fool need not be the fool that he has chosen to be. But I would think him to be a fool if he chose to continue to be so.”

Wisdom Choices Stupid Fool Foolish Decisions Unwise

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“Too much of the opportunity that we have is used to destroy the opportunity that we have.”

Choices Opportunity Wise Stupidity Foolish Decisions Self Destruction Self Sabotage

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“The fool says that consequences are a myth, so his indulgence knows no end. Yet, the greater fool is the one who eventually realizes that the consequences are not a myth at all. Rather, they choose to believe that they are a product of not having indulged enough.”

Choices Greed Selfish Greedy Consequences Indulgence Fool Foolish

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“If we don’t know what we’re running from or what we’re running to, maybe all of the running is our effort to avoid both.”

Wisdom Running Choices Fear Foolishness Avoidance Escaping Fleeing

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“Nature doesn’t need to predict what it’s going to do in order to determine what it’s going to do once it’s done doing it. And that’s because everything it does is for the good of everything else.”

Choices Nature Natural Good Decisions Contribution Consequences Repercussions

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“To attempt to force a tomato plant to produce corn is going to result in bad tomatoes and no corn. And how many people are attempting to do the same thing with their lives, all the while wondering why they’re getting bad tomatoes and no corn?”

Wisdom Choices Identity Gender Foolish Consequences Corn Tomatoes Personhood Personal Identity

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“Much has been said about love, but little has been lived.”

Love Giving Choices Sacrifice Decisions Selfless Actions Loving Gifts

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“Sacrifice and squander live in extremely close proximity to each other. For if the former is not guided by wisdom, it will quickly become the latter.”

Wisdom Choices Wise Sacrifice Stupid Smart Foolish Squander

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“The real mistake is not what we’ve done. Rather, it’s how we’ve chosen to think about what we’ve done.”

Thinking Choices Mistake Opinion Perspective Point Of View Consequences Repercussions

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“Sometimes taking a moment to do ‘nothing’ is the best ‘something’ that we can do.”

Choices Decisions Self Care Relaxation Moment Nothing Rest Something

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“Choose your cause wisely or it may destroy you thoroughly.”

Wisdom Choices Destruction Consequences Discernment Destroy Choosing

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“When it comes to ‘poking the bear,’ the length of my stick will never be long enough to outrun the consequences of either the bear or my stupidity.”

Wisdom Choices Ignorance Stupidity Foolishness Sayings Bear Stick Poking

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“There is not a decision that you will make that will not have a consequence potentially greater than the decision itself. The question then becomes, ‘Is the decision such that the long-term consequence will offset the short-term gain?”

Wisdom Choices Foolish Decisions Foolishness Consequences Discernment Thoughtfulness

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“Ignorance is paying forward what is certain to set us backward.”

Choices Ignorance Stupidity Foolishness Forward Backward Pay Forward

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“A day doesn’t go by where a day doesn’t go ‘bye.’ Therefore, you might consider what you doing with it before it’s done with you.”

Life Use Wisdom Time Choices Day Bye Short Brief

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“To climb in the canopy I must leave the ground. And such a decision will determine whether I will live a life of forest vistas, or an existence of dirt and leaves.”

Life Choices Decisions Dirt Forest Vistas Leaves Climb Canopy

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“The way to quit digging holes is to get rid of the shovels and stay away from the dirt.”

Choices Holes Decisions Problems Dirt Struggles Difficulties Shovels

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“For future reference, it may do me well to pay more attention to the purpose of the fence and less attention to my purpose in jumping over it. For if I would have done that in the first place, I would not currently be in the company of angry dogs.”

Wisdom Choices Foolish Decisions Thoughtful Consequences Dogs

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“Too often the target is determined by whatever it was that we happened to have hit.”

Choices Goals Target Destination Objective Bullseye

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“Ignorance is the thing that is certain to catch up with us right at the very point where we will be unable to catch up with it.”

Choices Ignorance Foolish Denial Foolishness Consequences Catch Up

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“Of course there is ‘better’ and ‘worse.’ But that determination is less about what someone is doing and more about how it’s serving the person who’s doing it.”

Wisdom Choices Strategy Good Foolishness Consequences Bad Discernment Better Worse

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“As the saying goes, “you are what you eat.” However, I think that it’s a bit more accurate to say that you are what you ‘decide’ to eat. Therefore, if you’re not pleased with what you see in the mirror of your life, you may wish to review the menu that’s on the table of your heart.”

Wisdom Choices Outcomes Self Discipline Consequences Discernment Repercussions Eat

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“Although I hate to admit it, my days of ‘stupid’ are probably not over. But at least I’m smart enough to know that.”

Wisdom Choices Stupid Smart Foolish Decisions Consequences

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“It wasn’t until I turned around that I realized that I had walked past a garden brilliant with color and laced with rich fragrance while rushing off to obligations that had neither.”

Choices Nature Color Garden Appreciation Priorities Decisions Flowers Fragrance

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“If there’s muck in the water of your life, you probably had a hand in hauling it there. What that means is that you also have the ability to haul it out.”

Life Choices Water Decisions Consequences Repercussions Haul Muck

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“You can pick up a cat by its tail because you assume that the part of the cat that can do you damage is on the other end. But it’s amazing how fast the other end can find its way to this end.”

Choices Ignorance Pride Cat Stupidity Selfish Foolish Arrogant Consequences Tail

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“In a deteriorating culture it is amazing to me that we will try all sorts of soil, apply water as generously as we possibly can. and tediously dote over every seedling. Yet we adamantly refuse to accept the fact that if the seeds are bad, the rest won’t matter.”

Choices Politics Water Society Seeds Soil Agendas Platforms Deteriorating

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“If where you’re going isn’t better than where you’re at, then maybe you ought to ask why you’re living your life going backwards.”

Life Wisdom Choices Journey Foolish Decisions Backwards Better Improve

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“At the close of this day, where I spent the day will become the unalterable stuff of my history. Therefore, since such a record is being kept, I would be wise to determine how I want to begin each day so that I will not be dismayed on my last day.”

Life Choices History Day Wasted Wasteful Squandered

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“The greatest riches in life are not obtained by what we chase but by what we choose not to chase, for it is the exercise of wisdom that makes one truly rich.”

Wisdom Choices Thoughtful Self Control Discernment Discretion Battles Choosing

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“Don’t think for a moment that the decisions that you make today are not payed forward into a future that you will live tomorrow.”

Wisdom Past Choices Future Present Consequences Repercussions Payback Forward Thinking

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“To claim that every staircase goes up means that we’re probably living out our lives in the basement of denial.”

Wisdom Choices Ignorance Fool Stupidity Denial Justification Foolishness Rationalization

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“Just because ‘these shoes were made for walking’ doesn’t mean that we should use them on any old road.”

Life Wisdom Choices Wise Walking Thoughtful Mindful Road Discerning

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“If I’m not flourishing, I might want to check out the soil.”

Faith Choices Belief Resources Soil Nourishment Grow Flourishing

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“Just because we choose to do nothing doesn’t mean that nothing will happen because we did nothing.”

Wisdom Choices Fool Decisions Coward Consequences Nothing Choosing

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“To think that you don’t have a choice is actually a choice that’s an attempt to relieve you of the guilt of not making a choice.”

Wisdom Choices Guilt Decisions Coward Choosing Options Deciding

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