“To stand at the very moment when all seems lost is the point of insanity for the coward, but it is the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Darkness is the absence of light. Therefore, darkness is always fleeing from where light is and scurrying off to where it is… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Defense mechanisms protect us. Fortresses isolate us. And far too often we begin with the former and end up constructing the latter.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Running’ is driven by panic. ‘Destination’ is driven by thought. And while it’s terribly painful to admit, incessantly pretending that I do… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“To ‘pretend’ is to say that I’m willing to waste the precious energy that it takes to pretend, and I’m unwilling to… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The restless adventurer within me stands eye-to-eye with the fear that has stepped directly in my path. And the thing I absolutely… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“A life that chooses not to grow is a life that died long before it ever lived.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Fear is something akin to catching a mouse in a bear trap. We mistakenly thought that the thing that we were trying… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I’m not the author of my fears, but I sure feed them really well.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Sadly, it seems that I have the proclivity to create plenty of devils, but most of the time I don’t even go… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The size of any obstacle is measured by the yardstick of our fear.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“My life is too often driven by the fear of the next moment verses focusing on the privilege that I have the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Our roads are most often a tawdry detour we have chosen because the press of pain or the push of greed drove… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The architect of the walls around me is the fear within me. And if I have foolishly granted this architect full license… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“It is not the absence of hope. Rather, it is the absence of our faith in hope.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The fear of getting knocked down is less about the pain of the fall and more about the embarrassment in having fallen.… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I spend a tremendous amount of time carefully choosing the roles I wish to play so that I can run from the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“This week God clearly told me to get out of my boxes. And I rather quickly discovered that trading my current box… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“To spin the tale with great flourish but never live the tale is the power of vision strangled to fiction by the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Maybe my greater fear should not be fear itself, but what I will lose should I submit to fear.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“It’s not the specter of aging that haunts me. Rather, it’s the far greater fear of having aged and having nothing to… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“If we’re honest, what makes something impossible is not our fear. Rather, it is our indifference.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“To love is to risk. To not love is also to risk. Yet when it comes to love, the greatest risk is incurred when… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Our fears are groomed for us and implanted within us by others who did the same for themselves...” — 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