3,025 Quotes by Craig D. Lounsbrough

Just because we chose to reject the truth does mean that such an option was actually available to us.

If I somehow find that the truth is inconvenient, it’s because my ethics are out of whack.

To live a fantasy is to avoid a life.

To label myself is similar to thinking that I can come up with a single phrase to explain the universe.

Character is holding to our integrity when everyone around us is holding on to everything except their integrity and pressing us to do the same.

It is the person of principle who has learned that to repel all of the temptations and lesser vices is to court criticism of the most scathing sort. And for the person of principle, it is the arrival of that criticism that evidences the power of the principles.

True integrity holds its ground even when such a stance means that you have let go of everything else that’s sitting on that ground.

I do not doubt the ability of mankind to aspire to lofty ideals and the most pristine of principles. But what I doubt is the willingness of mankind to incur the sacrifices involved in moving from aspiring these things to actually embracing them. And in such a conundrum as this, I would suggest that to stop at ‘aspiring’ and never move to ‘embracing’ is without a doubt the greatest sacrifice of all.

Do not tell me about your principles, for words are easy to craft and talk is cheap. Rather, let me see you live them out in the sentence and syntax of everyday life. And let me see that not so that I know that you understand the principles that you espouse, for that is easy. Rather, I want to know that you understand the sacrifice of living them out, and that the weight of the principle offsets the sacrifice of carrying it.