“The problem with patience is that we are not patient enough to learn it.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Too often my journey is described as the place that I last fell that I never got up from.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The only thing that we should give up on is the idea that we should be giving up.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Life is such that beginnings and endings are neither. For in fact, they perpetually lay the groundwork for the other.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Only one tree remained standing in a field cleared of trees. Yet that never deterred it from being a tree.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“To ‘give up’ on the idea of ‘giving up’ is the first step in ‘getting up.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The difference between ‘wanting’ something and ‘having’ something is ‘doing’ something.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I yearn not for the easy path, but for the right path. For 'easy' and 'right' are rarely compatible.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“This isn’t the last time that you’re going to get knocked down, so don’t make it the last time that you’re going… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Bravery is to acknowledge that we are cowards who have committed ourselves to keeping our cowardice on a very short leash.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“There’s nothing brave in pushing myself to the edge of my comfort zone. Bravery is about refusing to be in any kind… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“We can’t sufficiently define love with our words. Therefore, the only option that we’re left with is to show it in our… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“When we choose to stay down, we are in reality confusing wisdom with cowardice. When we choose to stand back up, we… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Bravery without vision is a loose cannon, and vision without bravery is a search for a cannon. But put both together, and… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“To refuse the sacrifice of the ascent is to miss the fact that the grandeur of the valley can only be fully… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Prayer is anything but the misled human being attempting self-sooth themselves against the pain that engulfs them. Rather, they are the people… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I can wait for life to shape me in whatever manner it chooses. Or I can shape me to make life whatever… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“If your dream is manageable, it’s just a nice idea that’s pretending to be a dream.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Don’t talk to me about what you want to do. Talk to me about how you’re going to do it.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“It is not the force of the wind, but the depth of the roots.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“A new start is never dictated by some random place on a calendar. Rather, it’s dictated by the state of our attitude.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Beginnings and endings are simply part of a journey that isn’t stopped by either.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The hallmark of all great journeys is the decision to walk directly into that which we would otherwise seek to escape.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The falls will come and I will lay prostrate on the cold hard pavement. But will I call the pavement a part… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“If you have not been driven to the end of yourself at some point in your life, it is likely that you… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Evil will never find a place where the manifestation of itself will not raise up a greater good. And to be that… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Giving up is the naysayer within us proclaiming that heroes are the stuff of fiction and the thought of us ever being… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Because a door slammed shut, we assume that our dreams were slammed shut with it. Yet before we surrender to a closed… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The mark of a short-sighted goal is that it is solely designed to achieve whatever needs to be achieved as a means… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“One man lives out his life beating his fears into submission, while another lives out his life letting his fears beat him… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“At the point that we can no longer see the dream, we need to have rehearsed it so many times that we… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Bravery is not the absence of fear, for then I doubt that anyone would be truly brave. Rather, it is passion clothed… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“If I rise above what people do to me and consistently strive to be the ‘bigger man’ despite the cost to me,… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“A mountain is never measured by how tall it is. Rather, it is measured by how tall we will be once we… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Any dream that I am absolutely confident I can achieve should immediately be discarded for the simple reason that it is simply… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Maybe the best way to think about something in a ‘new’ way is to believe enough in what we already know to… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“It is not the force of the wind, but the depth of the roots.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Death is a reality that calls the rest of life and all of our assorted strivings into sharp relief.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I’m not trying to save you from yourself. I’m trying to help you save yourself from yourself.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The fact that I can get away with something is the very reason why I shouldn’t do it.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Rather than being incensed by the nature of the bruise, maybe we should be inspired by the possibilities in the bruise.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“A ‘good’ father will tenderly cultivate his children. But a ‘good’ father who is also a ‘brave’ father will let the children without cultivate… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“It’s better to die for what’s right than live for what’s wrong.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“To stand at the very moment when all seems lost is the point of insanity for the coward, but it is the home of… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Thankfulness acknowledges that we can’t own anything, but we can experience everything. And just knowing that makes me thankful.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Do not be fooled. Passive prayers hastily tossed out as some second-thought appeasement at those junctures when life’s more pressing duties benevolently grant us… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
