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“Shovels serve two purposes. One is to dig holes and the other is to fill them. And I must say that my life evidences my expertise with the first, but apparently I can’t figure out the second.”

Wisdom Ignorance Stupidity Holes Thoughtful Problems Difficulties Sabotage Shovels Dig

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I see everything outside of me through the lens of everything that is inside of me. Therefore, before I look at the world outside I’d be wise to look at the lens inside.”

Wisdom Belief Opinion Perception Point Of View Discernment Distortion Judgemental Skew

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“The world would be a better place if the person who’s incessantly talking started learning how to say more using less oxygen.”

Wisdom Politics Talking Communication Public Speaking Discretion Babbling Pablum

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“Oh that we might have the wisdom to stop, lean down and pick up the scattering of things that we’ve so thoughtlessly discarded along the way. For if we were to do so, we would suddenly find ourselves holding the very treasures that we’d been looking for all along.”

Wisdom Thoughtful Thanksgiving Thankful Foresight Treasures Thoughtless Discard Scattered

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“Attempting to justify a lie is something akin to poking a really big hornet’s nest with a really short stick. The distance between you and disaster isn’t any longer than the stick or the wisdom that you exercised in choosing it.”

Wisdom Lying Stupidity Justification Lie Rationalization Blaming Stick Hornet

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“The best way to stick your hand in a hornet’s nest is to first determine all of the reasons why you shouldn’t.”

Wisdom Wise Stupidity Foolish Discernment Impulsive Thoughtless Reactive Hornet

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“The consequence of thinking that we can avoid a consequence is something akin to believing that jumping off a cliff only involves the jumping.”

Wisdom Choices Stupidity Foolishness Consequences Thoughtless Visionless

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“The solution to the problem probably has nothing to do with ninety percent of all the things that we’re doing to solve the problem.”

Problem Wisdom Stupid Waste Solve Foolish Irrelevant Solution Ineffective

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“It’s not that I can’t remember. It’s that I prefer not to remember, which means that I prefer not to remember what not remembering did to me the last time I did it.”

Wisdom Past Remember History Memory Denial Avoidance Remembering Avoid Recall Recalling

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

“Effective time management involves having our ‘To-Do List’ empty out at a speed that keeps pace with the upper-half of the hour-glass.”

Wisdom Time Wise Management Thoughtful Time Management Hour Glass

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“I don’t know that time is fleeting. Rather, I think that it’s our wise use of it that’s fleeting.”

Life Wisdom Time Hours Wise Minutes Thoughtful Fleeting Days Intentional

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“I can arrogantly brag that the doors I choose in life open wide and grant me unobstructed passage. But the widest doors tend to lead to the worst places.”

Wisdom Wise Doors Worst Stupid Stupidity Deception Arrogance Choice Opportunities Best Arrogant Boast Deceived Fooled Bragging Brag Choosing Boasting Unobstructed

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“If we crash and burn, there’s a good chance that we were driving a car that we shouldn’t have been in, on a road that we shouldn’t have been on.”

Wisdom Choices Car Foolish Mistakes Crash Consequences Road Repercussions Crash And Burn

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“Being thoughtful uses the energy that one would have used cleaning up the mess they were certain to have made by not being thoughtful.”

Thinking Wisdom Wise Mistakes Thoughtful Strategic

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“The need for a solution suggests the existence of a problem. The existence of a problem suggests the presence of a mistake. And a mistake suggests the existence of a less than wise choice that was probably mine.”

Problem Wisdom Wise Stupid Errors Stupidity Foolish Mistakes Failures Solution

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“To abandon the past is to throw away all of the elements that will build my future. And that creates a landfill I can’t afford to fill.”

Wisdom Past Future Stupidity Foolish Mistakes Present Failures Learning Opportunities

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“If I simply look at the map that I’ve so tediously created, it will explain why I’m laying at the bottom of this cliff looking up.”

“Each day hands me a clean sheet of paper upon which to write. Therefore, I would be wise to write without ever having the need to erase.”

Writing Wisdom Paper Errors Insight Planning Mistakes Author Story Caution Write Discernment Careless Plan Erase Life Story Authorship Error Carelessness Map Acumen

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“Although it pains me to admit it, I am quite familiar with the holes in life. And this familiarity is due to the fact that I spend far more time in these holes than I spend on the paths that brought me to them.”

Source: Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living

“Oh that I had the opportunity to rethink so many of my decisions, for the pitfalls into which I have so frequently fallen were often dug with the shovel of those very decisions.”

Wisdom Choices Opportunity Errors Mistakes Decisions Direction Decide Pitfalls Rethink Shovel Dug Reconsider

Book:Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living

Source: Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living

“Commitment to compromise is the place where dreams die under the guise of prudence.”

Wisdom Vision Dreams Compromise Die Prudence

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“Before you ‘grab a bull by the horns’ you might wish to remember that horns were designed for something other than grabbing and that the fifteen-hundred pounds on the other side of those horns would be more than happy to show you what that is.”

Wisdom Reality Choices Challenges Wise Decisions Thoughtful Bull By The Horns

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“You don’t create truth. You find it.”

Wisdom Reality Truth Wise Sacrifice Obedience Fact Discover Find

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“We need to get over the fact that we don’t have the power to create ‘truth.’ However, we do have the power to decide how we’re going to respond to it. And we’d be wise not to get over that.”

Wisdom Reality Truth Honesty Foolish Manipulation Deceived Fact

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“Would you think it wise to step into the ring with someone who has fought for thousands upon thousands of years and never been defeated? Yet, when you decide to challenge the ‘truth,’ that’s exactly who you’re stepping into the ring with.”

Wisdom Reality Truth Fighting Honesty Defeated Fact Undefeated

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“It is in our deepest nature to be on a journey in search of the truth. And we betray that nature when we choose to crawl off to some dark corner of our lives and sit hunched over some self-serving agenda tediously attempting to create a ‘truth’ that will justify that agenda.”

Wisdom Reality Truth Journey Honesty Discernment Fact Mindful Accountable

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“The truth of the matter is the truth matters.”

Important Wisdom Reality Truth Honesty Critical Fact Matters Valued Imperative

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“Reality was not meant to be changed by us. Rather, it was meant to be wrestled with so that we are changed by it.”

Wisdom Reality Truth Foolish Denial Justification Fact Self Deception Rationalization Self Soothing

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“Many times in life it’s not about turning on the light. Rather, it’s about refusing to pull the shades.”

Wisdom Light Dark Courage Insight Openness Receptive Shades

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“Unless all other means have been exhausted, the battle is nothing more than a bar fight taking place in a room that no one should be in.”

Wisdom Peace Compromise Combat Negotiation Diplomacy Battles Wars Bar Fight

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“Giving you a ‘piece of my mind’ evidences the fact that I probably don’t have much ‘peace of mind.”

Wisdom Joy Peace Calm Maturity Contentment Stability Centered

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“Patience is acknowledging that the sum total of the information needed to move forward may have not yet come forward in order to keep us from moving backward.”

Wisdom Peace Waiting Virtue Patience Patient Calm Proactive Impulsive Reactive

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“Think for yourself. If you don’t, someone else will and you may not appreciate all of the thinking that they did for you.”

Thinking Wisdom Foolish Decisions Mediocrity Apathy Thoughtless

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“Not having a script for your life is having the worst kind of script for your life.”

Wisdom Choices Plans Goals Mediocrity Apathy Foolishness Direction Script

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