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“Sometimes answering the question of where we’re at in life is best approached by asking where we’re not, because there’s a good chance that that’s where we had original intended to be.”

Source: The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“In the end, I walked myself here. And if ‘here’ is not the place that I wanted to be, blaming others for walking me here won’t do anything to walk me out of here.”

Choices Blame Decisions Outcomes Accountability Consequences Repercussions

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“We weave the majority of our problems on the loom of our decisions.”

Choices Decisions Problems Consequences Create Choose Weave Loom

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“Rescue is made possible by someone creating the need to be rescued. And while we are privileged to be involved in the occasional rescue, it seems that we’re far more involved in creating the need for it.”

Wisdom Choices Wise Rescue Consequences Discernment Save Salvage

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“It may not be the problem that's the problem. Rather, the problem might be the tool that I'm using to try and solve the problem.”

Wisdom Choices Solutions Tools Problems Difficulties Strategies Solving

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“Somehow I said “yes” to whatever put me here and “no” to whatever did not. And if I don’t like where I’m at, maybe I should start trading out one answer for the other.”

Wisdom Choices Responsibility Decisions Accountability No Thoughtfulness Yes

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“There’s only one person walking in my shoes, and that’s me. And to state that someone else somehow slipped into them and therefore walked me out to this horrible place is to forget that, shoes or not, I still can choose where to walk.”

Choices Responsibility Responsible Shoes Accountability Ownership

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“I might want to start paying real close attention to today because it will shape the yesterday that I will be thinking about tomorrow.”

Today Past Choices Tomorrow Future Yesterday Consequences

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“I must not reflect on what I’m doing. Rather, I must do one of the most difficult things imaginable and reflect on ‘why’ I’m doing it.”

Purpose Choices Agendas Actions Intentions Reflect Consider Motives

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“Wisdom’ and ‘greed’ sit at opposite ends of the continuum. And interestingly enough, they share the same place on the same continuum as ‘life’ and ‘death.’ And the person who is daring enough to be honest with themselves knows exactly which end they share.”

Life Wisdom Death Choices Opposites Greed Extremes Consequences Repercussions

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“In an alarming turning of the proverbial tables, we repeatedly tell ourselves that what we ‘want’ is in fact what we ‘need.’ And if we ever dare push back our greed sufficiently so that we can catch even the slightest glimpse of the carnage wrought of ‘wants’ unleashed, pursuing our ‘needs’ will quite quickly end up being all that we ‘want.”

Needs Choices Survival Greed Priorities Selfishness Consequences Wants Carnage

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“To sit down at the end of each day and read what we wrote across the page of this day is probably going to make us think real, real hard about what we should write tomorrow.”

Life Today Choices History Tomorrow Legacy Day Consequences Write Page

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“Life offers us many paths, but there’s only One that doesn’t lead to the edge of a cliff.”

Life God Christian Choices Jesus Calling Disaster Direction Paths Cliff

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“If we chase the things that ‘tickle our ears,’ we’ll probably end up finding out that they’re going to ‘torture our lives.”

Choices Greed Foolish Superficial Desires Consequences Self Centered Wants Ego Centric Lusts

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“If I look way back to the beginning of ‘whatever this is’ that I’m stuck in the middle of, I suddenly realize that ‘whatever this is’ got started by ‘whatever it is’ that I was doing. And I can be utterly confident in the fact that ‘whatever it is’ that I was doing, it wasn’t thinking.”

Wisdom Choices Wise Realization Thoughtful Consequences Prudent Repercussions Discerning Fool Foolish

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“We must be aware that momentum born of old habits and destructive behaviors might be momentum, but it’s momentum slammed into reverse.”

Choices Progress Achieve Reverse Consequences Habits Momentum Forward Behaviors Advance

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“As the old saying goes, “There’s more than one way to skin a cat.” The problem is that too often we assume that we’ve got the right cat, and then we assume that the only solution is to skin it. And once everything mercifully comes to a close, assuming that we’ve made a terrible mess of things is the only assumption that’s not an assumption.”

Wisdom Choices Wise Fool Solutions Cat Foolish Problems Discernment Assumptions

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“If I am not transforming those around me it is because I have chosen not to transform that which is within me.”

Choices Change Determination Transformation Personal Growth Personal Development Laziness Transform

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“The emptiness in our lives is due to the ‘absence of all the right things,’ and the ‘presence of all the wrong things.’ And if there’s some sort of silver-lining to be found in feeling empty, it’s that we’ve been successful at doing both of the above.”

Wisdom Choices Empty Decisions Emptiness Wrong Things Life Choices Right Things

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“The pen of history never runs out of ink and it’s fresh out of erasers. So…write carefully.”

Past Choices History Future Ink Pen Eraser

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“If I have to create space for something to enter my life by asking God to leave my life, maybe what I’ve actually done is taken leave of my senses.”

God Wisdom Christian Choices Jesus Salvation Foolish Priorities Godly Godless

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“If the seat of our pants are worn thin, it’s probably because we’ve been flying by the seat of them far too long.”

Wisdom Choices Pants Impulsive Discreet Seat Seat Of Our Pants

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“Greed are the handcuffs and gratitude is the key. Sadly, sometimes we prefer wearing the cuffs to finding the keys.”

Choices Freedom Keys Gratitude Thanksgiving Consequences Thankful Handcuffs

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“The oddity of our existence is that we are capable of digging holes deeper than we are capable of getting ourselves out of. The greatness of God is that He has a shovel long enough for every hole ever dug.”

God Wisdom Christian Choices Existence Jesus Christ Holes Decisions Discernment Shovels

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“If I’d just quit making ropes I’d no longer be at the end of one.”

Choices Impossible Expectations Rope Possible Constraints Limitations Quit

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“The script of tomorrow is being written by the pen of today. And we would be wise to remember that the pen of today cannot erase anything written by the pen of yesterday.”

Life Writing Today Choices History Yesterday Legacy Pen

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“I have both paper and pencil. And as I write out the script of my life, I’m not worried about how I hold the paper, but I am worried about how I hold the pen.”

Past Choices Future Paper Decisions Consequences Script Pen

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“The minute that stands in front of me has plenty of room within it to birth a new start. And if that is so, the next sixty seconds could change everything.”

Choices Change Decisions Opportunities Possibilities Alter Minute

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“God in His omnipotence says, ‘Here it is.’ And we in our ignorance say, ‘No it’s not!’ And in the end there it was, and where it is we are not.”

God Wisdom Christian Choices Jesus Ignorance Foolish Abandonment Omnipotence

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“Sometimes we can’t quite put our finger on something important because we’ve got our fingers wrapped around so many other things that are not important.”

Important God Wisdom Choices Wise Foolish Priorities Consequences Unimportant Finger

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“Sometimes we can’t quite put our finger on something important because we’ve got all of our fingers wrapped around a bunch of other things that are not important.”

Wisdom Choices Wise Stupid Importance Fingers Foolish Priorities Consequences Assessment

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“Without God, my internal compass is something more akin to a windmill in a hurricane.”

God Wisdom Christian Choices Jesus Prayer Guidance Discernment Direction Hurricane

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“Has it not ‘dawned’ on us that many of the things that we incessantly blame others for are actually things that our actions originally set in motion? Or, are we too weak to experience a ‘dawning’ of that sort?”

Choices Anger Responsible Blame Justification Consequences Repercussions Rationalization

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“What I see behind me is what I’m going to create in front of me. Therefore, I might want to take a long hard look out of the rearview mirror before I drop it into ‘drive’.”

Life Wisdom Past Choices Future Responsible Thoughtful Consequences Repercussions

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“God’s absence in the carnage is due to one single rather unnerving fact; that at some time past He honored our request that He leave. And if we are not brutally honest with ourselves regarding that choice, it is we ourselves who have set the stage for the next tragedy.”

God Christian Choices Jesus Tragedy Disaster Rejection Abandonment

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“Why am I always lost in the woods,” I yell at the top of my voice! And if I choose to settle down for a moment and be honest with myself, I’ll rather reluctantly admit that I drew the map.”

God Wisdom Choices Jesus Lost Christianity Ignorance Responsible Stupidity Accountability

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“It’s not that I’ve been invited to the hole I’m standing in. It’s that I accepted the invitation.”

“My heart says, ‘This way.’ The world says, ‘That way.’ God says, ‘I am the Way.’ And if perchance I choose to listen to the first two, I’m going to find myself so far off the ‘way’ that being lost becomes the ‘way’.”

World Way Life Heart God Christian Choices Jesus Goal Christianity Journey Jesus Christ Following Goals Obedience Choice Destination Listen Heed Direction Hear Follow Obey Map The Way

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“I must never equate the degree of pain as evidencing the incorrectness of a decision, for if I do I will default on some of the most critical decisions I should have ever made.”

Wisdom Pain Choices Wise Evidence Painful Confusion Decisions Choice Discernment Decide Discerning Choosing Correct Confuse Discern Incorrect

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“In case you’re short on definitions, here’s one. Insanity: ‘Destroying the very things that sustain us.’ And if we’re so short-sighted so as to make such preposterous choices, then it’s not all that preposterous to believe that shortly our end will be in sight.”

Wisdom Choices Wise Ignorance Destruction Ignorant Insane Conclusion Insanity Destroying Irrational End Destroy Illogical Choosing Short Sighted Chose Conclude Preposterous

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“I'm in a hole because at some point I found a shovel and started digging. Maybe I should trade my shovels for ladders and start climbing.”

“Nearly everyday life leans over and says, ‘Come on down!’ But standing at the bottom looking up, it’s finally dawned on me that it’s not these invitations that have dug this hole. Rather, it’s the fact that I accepted them.”

“Most of my failures can be ascribed to the fact that I chose that which was ‘easy’ over that which was ‘right’. And while it’s ‘right’ to admit this to myself, it isn’t ‘easy.’ So, which choice am I going to make this time?”

Wisdom Choices Easy Moral Wise Failure Fool Easier Foolish Decisions Acknowledge Choice Ethical Right Fail Decide Choosing Correct Failed Chose Admit Deciding

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“Running’ is driven by panic. ‘Destination’ is driven by thought. And while it’s terribly painful to admit, incessantly pretending that I do the latter doesn’t replace the fact that I’m constantly doing the former.”

“Sadly, it seems that I have the proclivity to create plenty of devils, but most of the time I don’t even go looking for angels.”

God Choices Fear Satan Frightened Fearful Angels Paranoia Paranoid Exaggerated Choosing Exaggerating Devils Fearing Exaggerate Inflate Catastrophic Worse Case Over Exaggerate

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“God invites. We decline. And because of that single foolhardy decision we spend the rest of our lives ‘declining’.”

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