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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

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“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

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“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

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“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

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

Wisdom Choices Fool Foolish Decisions Consequences Discernment Repercussions

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

Choices Greed Foolish Decisions Outcomes Foolishness Consequences Repercussions

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“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

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“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

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“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

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“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

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“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

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“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

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

Wisdom Choices Ignorance Foolish Decisions Consequences Discernment Repercussions

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“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.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“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

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“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

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“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

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“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

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“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

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“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

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“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

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“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

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“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

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“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

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“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

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“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

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“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

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“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.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“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.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“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

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“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

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“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?”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“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.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“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.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Autumn has come and reason has gone. Yesterday, I sold the sun for you and tonight the stars are running away from me. When you first spoke, you slowly annihilated my world. Your mouth was like the sea — in your kisses I sank. Your hands were like the ocean — in your caresses I sank. I ask for no salvation on this moonless night. I only ask for more Autumn.”

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Author:Kamand Kojouri

“What our parents tell us when we are small seldom goes ignored, no matter how foolish it may be”

Past Foolish Parents King

Book:The Green Mile

Source: The Green Mile

“Mankind is averse to true wisdom because it will demand of us what we prefer not to give. Therefore we craft something that will give us everything that we want, and this we call wisdom.”

Wisdom Mankind Fool Greed Selfish Foolish Self Centered Foolhardy

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It is our mission to enrich the lives of those around us. Therefore, such an action is not a choice nor does it fall to the bane of our selfish preferences. Nonetheless we presume it a choice that we defer to others who might be more aligned with such ideals. And in doing so we trudge through our lives leaving footprints empty and barren. And should a passerby catch sight of those prints, they might wonder why we were so foolish as to walk in such a way. And if at some point that passerby should happen to be us, regret will be added to the footprints which we already regret.”

Sacrifice Regret Responsible Foolish Bless Help Give Encourage Footprints Enrich

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Detours are paths to regret.”

Stupid Regret Greed Foolish Ignorant Decisions Selfishness Detours

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A detour that holds itself out as the road from which it deviated is a path to regret.”

Path Ignorance Regret Fool Greed Stupidity Foolish Entitlement Detour

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I stilled. I was sure I'd imagined that all too familiar voice, but there he was. His bright blue eyes saying far more than his words ever could. His iris' held pain and anger and my shame increased tenfold. How foolish I was to think what I'd done would matter to him, or how his reaction would mean so much to me.”

Romance Regret Shame Foolish Lennie Nathaniel Bright Blue Eyes

Book:Inherited

Source: Inherited

“Too many people are willing to die for the very thing that’s killing them.”

Sacrifice Killing Stupidity Foolish Deception Manipulation Die Irrational Foolishness Illogical

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Why do we tend to dread tomorrow? Because we weren’t all that wise in living out the ‘today’ that put that ‘tomorrow’ out into tomorrow.”

Wisdom Today Tomorrow Foolish Decisions Outcomes Consequences Repercussions Thoughtless Throughtful

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It may have been that the detour was easier to walk and more permissive in the walking.”

Greed Selfish Foolish Decisions Ease Entitlement Detour

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The only fool that we can control is the one that we hope to never become.”

Wisdom Hope Wise Fool Personal Development Foolish Decisions Control

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The closest enemy ship might be your own.”

Wisdom Fool Greed Insight Stupidity Selfish Foolish Decisions Self Sabotage

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If you give a dog a bone and then try to take it away you will most certainly get something, but it won’t be a bone. For when our stupidity drives a decision, we’re going to end up bleeding somewhere.”

Wisdom Dog Stupid Foolish Ignorant Decisions

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

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