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“Despite my frustration, the things that I’ve leaned on that are lying on the same ground that I am did not choose me. Rather, I chose them. Therefore, I chose the ground because I chose what couldn't keep me from being any place else.”

Source: The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“Often in life, we draw conclusions and reflexively take action based on what we see; which in the majority of situations is achingly insignificant or just plain wrong.”

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Book:The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

Source: The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“I don’t wish for a perfect life, for in doing so I will have discarded the tremendous opportunities for great good that lay hidden in the greatest bad.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I wish for an indomitable courage that is spawned by the conviction that without liberty we are without life. I want to possess a breathless passion persistently driven by the understanding that unless liberty is running untethered and free, all is slavery. And I want to be so desperately thirsty for these that I should I need to die for them in order to possess them, I would gladly do so. It is out these convictions that great people are raised up and great nations are born.”

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“Despite how crowded it might be, you can always find a seat on the sidelines of life. However, not all empty seats should be sat in.”

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“Life is bigger than our attempts to live it.”

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“The desire of my heart is to fill my heart with everything that is of God so that there is no space for anything that is of greed. For once I have been filled in just such a manner, the desire of my heart has finally become the reality of my existence.”

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“I have diligently disciplined my life to search out life’s gifts in the places where life stores its scraps.”

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“Life requires all the pieces, not just the ones that we tend to like.”

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“Instinct is all of our humanity being deliberately honest with all of life.”

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“I can use my imagination to image I am something that I’m not, living out my life in a place that I’m not, and imagining that none of that is imagination. And you only imagine how dangerous that is.”

Life Imagination Imagine Deception Deceived

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“I think that the real magic in life is that we possess enough imagination to be able to create a bit of it.”

Life Joy Imagination Vision Creativity Magic Create

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“To have a rigorous imagination is to live in ‘what is’ while embracing all the possibilities of ‘what could be.’ To live a fantasy is an attempt to escape both.”

Life Fear Imagination Fantasy Living Frightened Possibilities Avoidance

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“Imagination envisions what could be. Reality states what is. And when my journey is shaped by one of these at the exclusion of the other, I will eventually wake up on some road facing the ‘reality’ that I’m far more lost than I could have ‘imagined’.”

“At the end, a journey based on my imagination will leave me imagining that I should have engaged the very thing I used my imagination to avoid.”

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“To pretend is to do nothing more than imagine life as something wonderful so that we don’t have to incur the pain that it takes to actually make life wonderful.”

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“You’re living a dream. The question is, whose is it?”

Life Dream Passion Vision Future Goals Legacy Mission Life Goals

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“Sometimes the destination of our lives is the summation of the journey compiled and suddenly released into one marvelous place at one astonishing moment.”

Life Dream Passion Vision Journey Destination Marvelous

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“A road never defines a journey. Rather, it is defined by the heart that has decided to walk the road.”

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“Beginnings and endings are simply part of a journey that isn’t stopped by either.”

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“Some things must be pursued, or they may in fact pursue us.”

Life God Passion Jesus Destiny Calling Pursuit Pursue Mission

Book:The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

Source: The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“I’d rather not write my own story, for in doing so I have assumed that I possess a writing ability equal to that of God. And that assumption will result in a story that is certain to have a bad ending.”

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“Someone one said, ‘I just wanna lay me down and die,’ which implies that they’re currently doing neither. But that doesn’t mean that they’re not living as if they are.”

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“Have we ever thought to consider that God allows things in our lives to die so that in that death we might come to the precious realization of how little we’ve actually lived in the first place?”

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“Maybe the truth of it all is that we’re just too fearful to give our faith enough running room to realize that this precariously thin path that led us to the end of this life is dwarfed to obscurity by the infinitely vast byway that begins immediately on the other side.”

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“I must not bend great things to suit myself. Rather, I must bend myself to suit great things. For to do anything else is to trade the exuberance of living for the poverty of existence.”

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“Having lived with nothing is the gift that allows me to appreciate the privilege of having everything.”

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“Our past is full of incredibly valuable lessons that can teach us how ‘not’ to live life. The problem is that we believe that we’re done being a student in a world where the school of life is never out of session.”

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“I am thankful that I had a chance to live life despite how much or how little I might have had to live it with. For life is not weighed by the possession of things, but the possession of the life within which to use those things.”

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“I would much prefer the ‘wealth of impoverishment’ (where I have spent my life giving to others), over the ‘impoverishment of wealth’ (where I have squandered my life giving to myself).”

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“Sometimes in life we need to sit with things for a minute, maybe on the fringe of things, not only to savor the wealth of the moment, but take a moment to figure out how to respectfully engage it.”

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Book:The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

Source: The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“I don’t wish to possess anything so that I may be left free to experience everything.”

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“The difference between being the ‘hunted’ or being the ‘hunter’ is that the former has chosen to be the target, while the latter has chosen the target.”

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“Dear God, make my life one that ignites a passion to live in the lives of those who are considering the choice not to live.”

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“I ask, ‘Is the cup half-empty or half-full?’ And when I ask that question, I am amazed at how many people have no cup.”

“Tenderness is not weakness. Rather, it is a decision to face the scathing brutality of life, but to refuse to allow brutality to set the terms of the engagement.”

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“To keep my life free of evil I must of necessity keep my life full of God, for keeping my life full of anything else will give evil everything else.”

Life God Evil Jesus Good Free Everything Anything Full

Book:An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

Source: An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

“The reason that I can’t find the enemy is that I have yet to look within myself.”

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“The restless adventurer within me stands eye-to-eye with the fear that has stepped directly in my path. And the thing I absolutely must not do is to blink first.”

“To take any return that I might derive from my investment in the life of another, and to immediately invest that return back into that life is to turn an investment from a mere contribution that sustains a life, to an act of selfless humanity that transforms a life.”

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“Most people live life without ever really knowing what they lived simply because they didn’t live it.”

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“My celebration of life is not determined by how other people choose to live it.”

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“Everybody’s people.”

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“People are like books. The cover might give you a clue regarding the story inside, but if you don’t open the book two stories are lost.”

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“How often have I painted a splendid picture of a journey marked by courageous ascents and daring desert crossings when all along all I’ve really been doing is running?”

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“It’s not that I’ve ‘faked my own death’ as the saying goes. Maybe it’s that I’ve ‘faked my own life,’ and in doing so I’ve yet to realize how dead I really am.”

Life God Death Living Lies Deception Fake Dead Lie Faked

Book:An Autumn's Journey: Deep Growth in the Grief and Loss of Life's Seasons

Source: An Autumn's Journey: Deep Growth in the Grief and Loss of Life's Seasons

“The sanctity of human life is never lessened by our difference of opinion as to how we live out those lives.”

Life Differences Living Respect Value Division Cherish Sanctity

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Your footprints are a tale of reverence or a record of ignorance.”

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“I don’t know if today will be my last day. But I do know that it can be the first day that I begin to respect life enough to act as if it were my last.”

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