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“I don’t necessarily bemoan tragedy. Rather, what I bemoan is our seemingly inbred refusal to be accountable to the choices we’ve made that have caused those tragedies.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“When wisdom gives way to whimsy and ethics fall to excitement, it is highly likely that the ground beneath me will ‘give way’ and it is I who will ‘fall.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The greatest power of all is having ‘all power’ but choosing not to use it.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Patience is where we choose to enjoy the view instead of run off the cliff.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I can rush off a cliff or I can build a bridge across it. And if you look around, we seem to be awfully light on bridges these days because we’re incredibly limited on patience.”

Wisdom Stupid Patience Foolish Bridges Thoughtful Impatient Reflective Cliff

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If truth be told, the easy road is nothing more than an armchair in clever disguise. And if you look around, it seems that there are a whole lot of people in the furniture business.”

“The carnage of our lives can burn hot in the flames of our indiscretions, the greed that hung us on the very leash that we thought we had firmly secured around it, or the fool within us that thought ethics to be the hiding place of the visionless coward. And over time we have come to believe that the resultant carnage of these horribly errant ideologies carries a finality so irreversible that our lives have no hope of being anything other than the ash and smoke that we have recklessly turned them into. Yet, Easter is sufficiently formidable to raise ashes into lives of astounding beauty and turn smoke into the fragrance of hope eternally reborn.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“True power does not rest in our ability to destroy something, for the fool can do that with little effort and no thought. Nor does true power rest in our ability to restore something once it’s destroyed, for that simply involves taking what we’ve done and walking it backwards. Rather, true power rests in the ability to render destruction as the thing that never happens.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We reject that which would save us out of the misguided illusion that we can handily save ourselves. Yet, we plummet in the embrace of such an illusion only to deny the fall and justify the brutality of the impact. Staggering and blinded, we raise ourselves up from the carnage, lean on the crutches of weakly fabricated philosophies, and declare the illusion of self-serving savior once again. And until we relent and embrace the Savior born at Christmas, falls will be our lot, carnage our companion, and misery our destination.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The only time that God will kneel in the face of our selfish choices is to lift us out of the consequences of those choices.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“How do I come to believe in God? Immerse yourself in the alternatives.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The pit is of my own making. The rescue is of God's love. And the deliverance is my acceptance of both.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Only the fearless made proceed. Brave ones, foolish ones. Both walk not the middle road.”

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Author:Toby Fox

“The exercise of our freedoms as driven by the dictates of our greed will eventually undermine the very structures that gave us the ability to exercise those freedoms. And I for one do not wish to expend my life fighting to regain the freedoms that we never should have lost because we chose to be the fools that we never should have been.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Weary’ is what I will most certainly be if I try to do everything ‘for God’ or ‘without God’ instead of being in partnership ‘with God.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I don’t care if people say that I am staying hungry and foolish.”

Inspirational Life Lessons Foolish Hungry

Author:Santosh Kalwar

“If there is any evidence that points to the existence of God, it is found in man’s incessant desire to be ‘god’ and his repeated failure to be anything but men who wish to be what they are not.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A cause that only serves me is much like a door on the edge of a cliff, it doesn’t open to anywhere good.”

“If I choose to take the pen from God and write the story of my life without Him, I better have plenty of erasers and a whole lot of white-out. Better yet, I should invest in a good shredder.”

“I once began to ask around what constitutes a good poem. It felt petty, in a sense. A boy would need no help in deciding which girls he thinks are pretty.”

Source: Healology

“[Martin Hellman:] Unless you're foolish enough to be continually excited, you won't have the motivation, you won't have the energy to carry it through.”

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Author:Simon Singh

“Our society seems something akin to an auditorium full of people holding drums. And the insanity inherent in this scene is that every person is clutching stacks of blank sheet music, no one knows what a metronome is, and none of these apparent musicians have a lick of musical experience. And in the deafening chaos of the acoustic bedlam that fills every corner of that room, every single person is voicing the incessant demand that everyone else in the room march to the beat of their own particular drum (even though they’re entirely uncertain as to what that beat is). And in the ensuing pandemonium, the beat that I’m going to march to is the one that marches me right out of that room.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Too often we allow the lyrics to sneak in under the melody.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The graveyards of our lives are filled with things that should have never died because we gave birth to an arrogance that should have never lived.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Happiness & Sadness are two contemporary stages in life. A wise man overcomes sadness with his wisdom, and a foolish man faces it with tears.”

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Author:Deepak Chandra

“The world is crying out for the very thing that it is shutting out. And what is worse than crying for the very thing that you’re denying?”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have.”

“Every single person is a fool, insane, a failure, or a bad person to at least ten people.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“There is so much woman in many a girl and too much boy in many a man.”

“A child raised by himself becomes a fool. But a child raised by The State becomes something worse—a fool that thinks he’s wise.”

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Book:Eggs, they’re not just for breakfast

Source: Eggs, they’re not just for breakfast

“You can parade your mouth around all day, but that doesn’t mean that you were ever in a parade or even anywhere near one.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If you’re going to ‘run your mouth,’ at least don’t run it in circles.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If you keep your mouth closed more than you keep it open, there’s a whole lot less opportunity to put your foot in it.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“No sleeper whom you have wakened, None downcast whom you have roused, None whose shut mouth you have opened, None ignorant whom you gave knowledge. None foolish whom you have taught.”

Knowledge Foolish Ignorant Mouth Downcast Sleeper

Book:Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

Source: Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

“Don’t be so foolish as to think that by ignoring the hard questions life won’t become hard.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If the questions are based on the answers that I’ve already pre-determined, the only real question left is, “How long do I intend to be a slave to my cowardice and a whipping boy to my greed?”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Even if they were foolish enough to believe that the earth was the centre of the universe, do we not ourselves believe that man is the fine flower of creation?”

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Book:CliffsNotes on White's the Once and Future King

Source: CliffsNotes on White's the Once and Future King

“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.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“How often have our choices dug the cliff that we just fell off of?”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“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.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“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.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Regret is a choice birthed by choices.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“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.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“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.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“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.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

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