3,025 Quotes by Craig D. Lounsbrough

Thanksgiving is coming to the life-altering understanding that truly precious things can’t be owned anyway. And the wonder of it all is not only realizing that we can’t own them, but it’s realizing that we don’t have to expend the energy in the maintenance of them in order to enjoy them.

The most dangerous thing we can do with intelligence is to let it speak without being both chastised and informed by wisdom. For if we let it speak without the constraints and forbearance of wisdom, we will destroy ourselves. And in doing so, we will be so caught up in our ‘intelligence’ that we won’t even realize that it’s ‘us’ that’s killing ’us.

I am thankful that in the giving we receive, and what we receive is the satisfaction of knowing that whatever we give is always bigger once we've given it away.

Either we are running ‘from' what we fear, or running ‘to' what we fear. The former is a choice driven by fear, the latter is an action inspired by it.

There's something tightly woven throughout the fabric of our humanity that runs entirely opposite to the baser instinct of looking out for our own good.

There is something of tragedy and a ‘comedy of eternal errors' when we attempt to write great scripts of rescue when we are the ones in need of rescue.

Starting over is an acceptance of a past we can't change, an unrelenting conviction that the future can be different, and the stubborn wisdom to use the past to make the future what the past was not.

Maybe the thing that we're losing is the very thing that has caused us to lose everything else in the first place.

Our actions must be directed, tempered and brought under the full authority of a greater calling.