Quotes from Craig D. Lounsbrough

Have we ever thought that being lost is our destination?

If 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.

Be absolutely assured that we will die long before our own deaths if we ever allow the fear of adulthood to kill the wonder of childhood.

Fear left unrestrained always leaves us running 'from' something. Fear harnessed compels us to run 'to' something. And fear denied leaves us running in circles.

Comfort is not a goal that I seek, rather it is a place that I hide.

The more we construct lives that prioritize safety, the bigger the prison we construct around ourselves.

If I am sufficiently brave to extract the cancer of fear, I have effectively gutted my conviction that what stands before me is impossible.

Safety is not a destination that we reach for, rather it is a retreat that we escape to. And if our lives are marked by the incessant search for safety, we will live the whole of it going in reverse.

We think that boxes take everything that's bad and they lock all that nasty stuff out, when in reality they take everything that we are and they lock all of those great things in.

It's not about the elimination of fear. Rather it's about the elimination of the feeling that the elimination of fear is necessary before we take the next step.

How often have I painted a splendid picture of a journey marked by courageous ascents and daring desert crossings when all along all I've really been doing is running?

Fear is often bred of an imagination that couldn't let something be what it actually was.

By choosing comfort we are in the very same decision choosing to miss every great thing in life, and that thought should be anything but comforting.

The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of all.

To look beyond our horizons is to acknowledge that we've hemmed ourselves in by creating them in the first place.

Choosing a life of safety is safely choosing something other than life.

Either we are running 'from' what we fear or running 'to' what we fear. The former is a choice controlled by fear, the latter is an action inspired by it.

The anticipation of loss is much more frightening than the actual loss as anticipation leaves room for the imagination to create that which, in all likelihood, will never transpire.

Either we are running 'from' what we fear, or running 'to' what we fear. The former is a choice driven by fear, the latter is an action inspired by it.

Mediocrity is a path cleared by fear, leveled by apathy and paved by comfort.

One of the most terrifying things I fear is not my potential, but how much regret I'll die with should I never use it.

The paralyzing fear of being lost is fed solely by the irrational fear that we will never be found.

To intentionally pass on opportunity is to intentionally pass on living.

If I am brave enough to stand against those who have been groomed by fear, I will recognize that where I get knocked down is all about where life begins, and has nothing to do with where it ends.