01UndatedA life that chooses not to grow is a life that died long before it ever lived.Craig D. Lounsbrough / quote ↗
02UndatedTo spin the tale with great flourish but never live the tale is the power of vision strangled to fiction by the fiction of fear.Craig D. Lounsbrough / quote ↗
03UndatedToo often we make it more about what stands before us, and we miss all that stands within us.Craig D. Lounsbrough / quote ↗
05UndatedWe can be seized with panic of the fall, or inspired by the potential that lies within the fall.Craig D. Lounsbrough / quote ↗
06UndatedToo often it’s about what stands before us, not what stands within us.Craig D. Lounsbrough / quote ↗
07UndatedMy life is too often driven by the fear of the next moment verses focusing on the privilege that I have the next moment.Craig D. Lounsbrough / quote ↗
08UndatedWhat is fear but that ‘thing’ that we believed to be as powerful as it pretended to be.Craig D. Lounsbrough / quote ↗
09UndatedI’m not the author of my fears, but I sure feed them really well.Craig D. Lounsbrough / quote ↗
10UndatedMaybe my greater fear should not be fear itself, but what I will lose should I submit to fear.Craig D. Lounsbrough / quote ↗
11UndatedThe restless adventurer within me stands eye-to-eye with the fear that has stepped directly in my path. And the thing I absolutely must not do is to blink first.Craig D. Lounsbrough / quote ↗
12UndatedSadly, in too many cases surrender is having been ‘outrun’ by fear rather than having ‘run out’ of heart.Craig D. Lounsbrough / quote ↗
13UndatedIf we’re honest, what makes something impossible is not our fear. Rather, it is our indifference.Craig D. Lounsbrough / quote ↗
15UndatedSadly, it seems that I have the proclivity to create plenty of devils, but most of the time I don’t even go looking for angels.Craig D. Lounsbrough / quote ↗
16UndatedFear is my mind painstakingly creating the worse-case scenario and then putting it on steroids.Craig D. Lounsbrough / quote ↗
17UndatedRunning’ is driven by panic. ‘Destination’ is driven by thought. And while it’s terribly painful to admit, incessantly pretending that I do the latter doesn’t replace the fact that I’m constantly doing the former.Craig D. Lounsbrough / quote ↗
18UndatedTo ‘pretend’ is to say that I’m willing to waste the precious energy that it takes to pretend, and I’m unwilling to cultivate the bravery that it takes to be real. And I am at a complete loss to pretend that either of these aren’t true.Craig D. Lounsbrough / quote ↗
19UndatedToo often fear is fiction madly running amuck, all the while madly tracking ‘muck’ across the floor of fact.Craig D. Lounsbrough / quote ↗
20UndatedWe will understand the depth of our vision when at some point we are finally faced with the price we must pay to achieve it. And when the price comes calling, most visions end up falling.Craig D. Lounsbrough / quote ↗
22UndatedWe can certainly run from a lot of things. But when we eventually pull up exhausted and entirely out of breath, we are rather shocked to discover that we haven’t been able to create any distance between ourselves and what we’ve been running from regardless of how fast we might have been running and how far we think we might have gotten.Craig D. Lounsbrough / quote ↗
23UndatedI spend a tremendous amount of time carefully choosing the roles I wish to play so that I can run from the role I was born to play. And if I keep on doing that, I will eventually set foot in my grave never having set foot on the stage.Craig D. Lounsbrough / quote ↗
24UndatedIf there’s any redeeming quality that I can find in running away from something, it’s that I’m on my feet. Now all I’ve got to do is alter my direction.Craig D. Lounsbrough / quote ↗
