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“Most of the mines in the minefields of our life were planted by the choices that we should have never made while we were in the places that we should have never been.”

“The depth of the hole that we’re in is too often based on the size of our shovel, the frequency with which we use it, and the fact that we’ve yet to discard it.”

Choices Stupid Foolish Decisions Digging Short Sighted Hole Shovel

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“Might I remind us that taking dirt out of the hole that we’re standing in and putting it back in that same hole both requires a similar degree of effort. But not digging it out in the first place may require the greatest effort of all.”

Wisdom Choices Fool Foolish Decisions Digging Short Sighted Hole

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“The consequences of your choices will always outlive the choices.”

Wisdom Choices Wise Future Foolish Outcomes Consequences Repercussions Outlive

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“Regret is a choice birthed by choices.”

Choices Wise Regret Fool Stupidity Foolish Thoughtful Remorse

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“Too often today becomes the tomorrow that we didn’t plan for yesterday.”

Wisdom Today Past Choices Tomorrow Future Foolish Yesterday Thoughtful

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“Misadventures make for the some of the best adventures.”

Wisdom Choices Wise Adventure Foolish Decisions Misadventure

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“Sometimes our greed gets unhinged to the point that we lose the hinges, we misplace the door, and we can’t remember which house we were in this time.”

Choices House Greed Selfish Foolish Consequences Door Unhinged

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“An attitude of Thanksgiving cannot be reconciled to any notion of entitlement, for the two stand at odds so diametrically opposed that one must be eradicated if the other is to survive. Therefore, we will either choose to be lavishly enriched by an attitude of thanksgiving that will not be diminished by depravity of any kind, or we will spend our lives fleeing from a depravity that we could not elude because we worked to obtain what we declared to be ours but never was.”

Wisdom Choices Attitude Wise Fool Foolish Entitled Thanksgiving Entitlement Depravity

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“The only reason that I’ve become my own fire department is that I’ve become my own arsonist.”

Wisdom Choices Politics Fire Fool Foolish Consequences Fire Department Arsonist

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“I prefer not to spend the majority of my life putting one-foot-in-front-of-the-other walking out of the places that I should have never put one-foot-in-front-of-the-other walking into.”

Life Wisdom Purpose Choices Journey Walking Foolish Decisions Direction

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“Make the wrong rope and you’re likely to be hung by it.”

Choices Fool Foolish Hung Consequences Rope Self Destruction

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“The fool will look you directly in the face, point a ridiculing finger squarely at your chest, and confidently inform you that there is no consequence for whatever choice they’re about to make. However, the real consequences don’t occur when the fool is standing amidst the very consequences that they claimed not to exist. Rather, the real consequences occur when they are standing amidst the consequences, all the while absolutely befuddled as to why they’re on fire.”

Choices Fool Foolish Ignorant Outcomes Consequences Narcissistic Egocentric

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“The thing most likely to destroy you is not the ignorance of your choices. Rather, it is the denial of the consequences that evidence the ignorance of those choices.”

Choices Ignorance Fool Foolish Ignorant Denial Justification Consequences

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“It is a sad day when I am forced to yet again traverse the bottom of some cliff and help heal the wreckage experienced by those individuals who had repeatedly declared that there was no cliff. And as for me, I have had far too many sad days. But none are ever so sad that I will stop declaring the reality of the cliff.”

Wisdom Choices Stupid Foolish Denial Decisions Justification Consequences Rationalization Wreckage

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“God doesn’t change because He’s set in His ways. He doesn’t change because He is out to save us from the fact that we are set in ours.”

Life Choices Wise Fool Blind Greed Selfish Foolish Decisions Stubborn

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“We are never fast enough to outrun the consequences of our choices.”

Wisdom Choices Fool Foolish Decisions Consequences Discernment Repercussions

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

Choices Greed Foolish Decisions Outcomes Foolishness Consequences Repercussions

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“The degree to which we are bitten by our choices depends on how many teeth we give them.”

Wisdom Choices Wise Foolish Karma Teeth Consequences Repercussions Bitten

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“The only reason that our choices come back to bite us is because we gave them teeth.”

Wisdom Choices Wise Foolish Karma Consequences Repercussions Bite

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“Have we yet come to understand that if we missed the mark it was not for lack of aim? It was simply that we were aiming at something else.”

Wisdom Choices Foolish Distractions Missed Aiming Missed The Mark

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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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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.”

Choices Wise Dreams Achievement Goals Foolish Destination Aspirations

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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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“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 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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“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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“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.”

“More times than I’m willing to admit I am my own worst enemy, which suggests that more times than I’m willing to admit I should allow God to be my own best friend.”

God Choices Enemy Fool Foolish Decisions Acknowledge Friend Discernment Best Friend Sabotage Self Destructive Confess Admit

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“We want to 'write in' our plan and 'write out' the consequence. When we do that, we're headed 'right back' to what we foolishly thought we could 'write out.”

Choices Fool Consequence Strategy Foolish Planning Consequences Plan Erase Avoidance Script Strategist Avoid Eliminate Foolishly

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