Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Life offers us many paths, but there’s only One that doesn’t lead to the edge of a cliff.”

“Truth even in the most whispered tones will always roar.”

“To be careless in making decisions is to naively believe that a single decision impacts nothing more than that single decision, for a single decision can spawn a thousand others that were en...”

“When we choose to stay down, we are in reality confusing wisdom with cowardice. When we choose to stand back up, we are using wisdom to overcome cowardice.”

“At one time or another someone said to us, ‘What were you thinking?’ And often it’s not that we weren’t thinking. Rather, it was that we were thinking that thinking would get in the way of w...”

“Freedom exercised without the tempering of wisdom and the guidance of ethics is freedom gone rogue. And freedom gone rogue is no longer freedom. Rather, it is the rather effective method by...”

“To simply emote is not to express an opinion. Rather, it is an attempt to force a point of view that won’t stand on its own merits.”

“If I craft my own ethics, they will serve my agendas rather than guide them. And that is something akin to racing a car down a mountain road without a steering wheel and somehow assuming tha...”

“Wherever I am is a result of me saying ‘yes’ to something when I should have said ‘no,’ or vice-versa. And me getting out of wherever I am is going to be based on saying the same things, but...”

“Somehow I said “yes” to whatever put me here and “no” to whatever did not. And if I don’t like where I’m at, maybe I should start trading out one answer for the other.”

“There’s that old saying about ‘stirring the pot.’ And I think that more times than not, we’d be wise just to make soup.”

“Every single day in a thousand different ways, the script that I am writing across the pages of my life is dramatically impacting how others are writing theirs. And if I dare to recognize th...”

“And the insanity of it all is that I’m racing through life, attempting at every step to create the very things that I’m stepping on in the racing.”

“Wisdom’ and ‘greed’ sit at opposite ends of the continuum. And interestingly enough, they share the same place on the same continuum as ‘life’ and ‘death.’ And the person who is daring enoug...”

“If I am unwilling to step up and look beyond the stunted reach of my own agendas, if I am unwilling embrace the truth even though it may run frustratingly contrary to my most innate desires,...”

“We are not the masters of our own fate, for to leave something as monumental as that in our own hands is to seal our fate. And I suppose that in that sense, we might be the masters of our ow...”

“Sometimes the best argument is the one that we refuse to have.”

“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.”

“Maybe the greatest power of all is the power of restraint.”

“If I’m going to write something that moves the masses and seizes one’s soul, I have to force myself to sit and watch life long before I ever attempt to sit and write about it. For without th...”