127 Quotes by Craig D. Lounsbrough about Greed
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Entitlement is the shovel that digs a grave of greed. And there are those of us who stand at the bottom of such a grave having thrown out the last shovel full of dirt, never realizing that the grave that we’ve dug is our own until the same shovel suddenly starts backfilling the hole.
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It doesn’t take much intelligence to understand that obedience to greed can make us a slave to stupidity. Yet, I think that the power of greed is amply illustrated by simply taking note of how many intelligent people have chosen slavery.
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Maturity means being able to accept the fact that sometimes the things that we wish for will create the histories that we don’t wish for.
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I incessantly prowl the aisles of life tediously seeking out that which I don’t have. And because I spend my time in the aisles of ‘what I don’t have,’ I seldom visit the warehouse that holds everything that I do have.
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We are averse to the truth because the truth is averse to our greed. And so we will either give up our greed and surrender to the truth, or we embrace our greed and surrender everything else.
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Other than a gaping hole, I won’t leave anything in life by taking everything from life. And if I don’t take anything from that statement, I’ll always be living at the bottom of the hole I’ve dug, wondering where I put the ladder I never had.
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To gorge ourselves on everything is to walk away with nothing. And maybe that’s part of the reason why we’re always hungry for something.
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Without exaggerating the point, the difference between ‘what I should do’ verses ‘what I want to do’ is quite frankly the difference between success and failure.
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A focus on self-preservation is a choice for self-destruction.
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