I must not imagine what is ‘not’ as a means of escaping what ‘is’. Rather, I must understand what ‘is’ and imagine how I can make it what it is ‘not’.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Belief Believe Challenge Change Escape Faith Flee Imagination Imagine Opportunities Possibilities Reality Reconstruct Recreate Renew

The world screams, ‘Stay down, it’s safer.’ My soul screams, ‘So is being dead.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Dead Death Distortions Down Failure Fear Fight Flee Frightened Hide Lies Safe Safer Scream Soul Spirit Success Up World

Glow wherever you go and let the light of God reflect in the world around you. You carry the light of God and wherever you pass, darkness must flee.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Israelmore Ayivor Be A Star Bright Brighten The Corner Dark Darkness Flee Food For Thought Glow Glowing God Grow Inspirational Inspirations Israelmore Ayivor Jehovah Lamp Light Light Of God Motivational Motivations Personal Development Shine Shine Bright Shining Star Stars World

Anger prepares us to fight and fear prepares us to flee.

~ Chip Heath

Chip Heath Anger Fear Fight Flee

Running’ 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

Craig D. Lounsbrough Admit Admitting Choice Choices Destination Fear Fearful Flee Fleeing Fool Foolish Foolishness Goal Intention Intentional Journey Painful Pretend Pretender Pretending Purposeful Run Running Thought Thoughtful Wisdom Wise

Have we ever thought that being lost is our destination?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Avoid Avoidance Denial Deny Destination Elude Escape Fear Fearful Flee Frightened Goal Hide Intention Intentional Lost Purposeful Run Scared Wandering

We 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

Craig D. Lounsbrough Abandon Discard Distance Escape Fear Flee Fleeing Flight Irresponsibility Irresponsible Run Running

I 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

Craig D. Lounsbrough Avoid Avoidance Born Calling Destiny Escape Fake False Fear Flee Grave Mission Play Roles Run Stage Wasted

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.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Alter Change Cowardice Direction Escape Fear Feet Fight Flee Fleeing Flight Frightened Quality Redeeming Retreat Running

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.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Afraid Controlled Denial Denied Escape Fear Flee Frightened Harnessed Run Running Uncontrolled Unrestrained Withdrawal

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.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Backwards Destination Escape Fear Flee Flight Frightened Journey Retreat Reverse Run Running Safety Search Searching Withdrawal

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?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Ascents Boast Boasting Deceit Deception Deserts Distort Fake Fear Flee Frightened Hide Hiding Journey Lie Lies Life Run Running Scared Spin

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.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Choose Controlled Decision Fear Fearful Flee Flight Frightened Inspired Run Running Sacred

I often ask to what place I am running, for if I am unable to identify that place it is likely that I am running in a circle of the most circular sort.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Avoid Avoidance Circle Circular Courage Destiny Fear Flee Fleeing Goal Goals Journey Mission Run Running

If I’m perplexed by the fact that I’m constantly lost, maybe somewhere in my head I’ve determined that being lost serves a greater purpose than being found.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Confused Confusion Decide Decision Escape Escaping Find Flee Fleeing Found Hidden Hide Intent Intention Lost Perplexed Purpose Purposeful Retreat Running Wander Wandering Withdraw Withdrawal

The one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he flees.

~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Conditioning Escape Flee Fleeing Freedom German Idealism Philosophy

There’s not much that I can find in places where there is nothing to find. However, to avoid facing God I find myself spending a lot of time in those very places.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Abandon Abandonment Accountability Accountable Avoid Avoidance Christian Christianity Denial Deny Find Flee Futile God Ignorant Ignore Lonely Meaningless Meaninglessness Myself Nothing Nothingness Places Run Self Surrender Surrendering Time

Too often fantasy is not a rich elaboration of life designed to enhance our existence, rather it is our pell-mell escape from life with the intent of exiting this existence. And the most imaginative fantasy of all is to somehow think that I can do that in the first place.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Avoid Avoidance Escape Existence Fantasy Flee Flight Life Reality

Happiness is.. looking at the closing door, then bolting them from outside and fleeing.

~ Vikrmn

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All the words I had prepared turned coward and fled my mind like conscripts deserting a battlefield.

~ Nancy Springer

Nancy Springer Battlefield Conscript Coward Flee Mind Word

The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.

~ Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami Escape Flee Flight Haruki Murakami Imagination Imagine Japan Japanese Murakami Reality The Wind Up Bird Chronicle

Your level is above the reach of the devil... Keep it in mind; as long as you are in the light of God, you bind him (the devil) tight!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Israelmore Ayivor Bind Christ In You Devil Enemy Evil Flee Food For Thought God Israelmore Ayivor Level Light Light Of God Reach Resist The Devil Satan Temptation Temptations Tight

Information and ignorance are like light and darkness... When light comes into your room, darkness must fly away. When information rules your mind, ignorance finds its way out!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Israelmore Ayivor Blind Dark Darkness Flee Fly Food For Thought Ignorance Ignore Inform Information Information And Ignorance Informed Israelmore Ayivor Know Know Nothing Knowledge Learn Light Light And Darkness Room Run Away See Study

There is a payoff for examining the divine author's literary style. It will tell you something about Him. Whereas, Jonah's actions are extensively described and laboriously detailed, God's reactions (although miraculous) are only described in sparse, minimalist terms.God seems much more amused by Jonah than Jonah is with God. Every miracle is directed at Jonah. Yet, very little copy is used to described God's miracles. Although God's miracles are much more astonishing than Jonah's immature fits of rebellion, more copy is dedicated to Jonah.

~ Michael Ben Zehabe

Michael Ben Zehabe Astonishing Dedicated Flee Forgiveness Homeschool Jonah Justice Love Miracle Miraculous Rebellion Reconciliation

Some activities may look attractive, but you don’t have any business dating them, else they break you up. It may be good, but not right. Flee from good things and do right things!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Israelmore Ayivor Act Right Activity Attract Attractive Business Date Flee Follow Your Passion Food For Thought Good Israelmore Ayivor Right Right Things

Your dominion has nothing to do with a negative person's opinion. Flee from people who only hung on passport-size dreams and you'll see your bigger picture! Go for the big one!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Israelmore Ayivor Big One Bigger Bigger Photo Bigger Picture Dominate Dominion Flee Food For Thought Israelmore Ayivor Negative Negative People Opinion Passport Passport Size People Photo Pictire Size

The more you run away from the devil, the more you will realize that it is closer to you than before. Don't run away from it; RESIST the devil and it will FLEE from you!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Israelmore Ayivor Close Closer Devil Enemy Evil Flee Food For Thought Israelmore Ayivor Realize Resist Resist The Devil Run Away Satan The Old Serpent Very Close

I gaze out of the window at the lanes of red taillights streaming towards the hills, the city laid out in anonymous grids and quadrants, the view confirming that I was much more alone than I thought, and all those red lights inspired nothing more than a sense that I, too, should be fleeing somewhere.

~ Chloe Thurlow

Chloe Thurlow Flee Loneliness Longing

Undoubtedly, our weariness is not based on the fact that we’re running. Rather, our weariness is all too frequently based on the fact that many of the things that we’re running from are the very things we should be running to.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Direction Fatigued Flee Flight Goals Run Running Tired Weariness Weary Withdraw Withdrawal

If I’m chasing the wrong thing, what I’m chasing will end up chasing me. And in the end, I’m less likely to be the one doing the catching.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Catch Catching Chase Chased Chasing Choice Choices Decisions Desire Desiring Destination Error Flee Fleeing Flight Goal Goals Incorrect Misguided Misled Priorities Priority Pursuing Pursuit Retreat Retreating Wrong

The dark might be dark, but at least we don’t have to look at ourselves when we’re standing in it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Accountability Accountable Ashamed Dark Darkness Denial Escape Escaping Flee Fleeing Hide Hiding Honest Honesty Integrity Responsibility Responsible Retreat Retreating Self Evaluation Shame Stand Standing Withdraw Withdrawal

Whatever criticism we may have for Jonah, at least it can be said that Jonah was consistent. This legalistic, over-judgmental, young prophet will consistently proscribe the most severe form of punishment for the guilty--even when the guilty party is himself. The young Jonah hijacks written Torah to condemn everyone--even himself.

~ Michael Ben Zehabe

Michael Ben Zehabe Condemn Flee Guilty Harsh Hijack Homeschool Injustice Jonah Judgmental Justice Punishment Self Righteous Severe Torah

If you desire the path of sincerity, develop a love for obscurity. Flee from the clatter and clinks of fame. Be like the roots of a tree; it keeps the tree upright and gives it life, but it itself is hidden underneath the earth and eyes cannot see it.

~ Abdullah Ibn Al-Mubarak

Abdullah Ibn Al-Mubarak Clatter Clinks Earth Eyes Fame Flee Hidden Life Obscurity Roots Sincerity Tree Upright

For kids like me, the part of the brain that deals with stress and conflict is always activated...We are constantly ready to fight or flee, because there is a constant exposure to the bear, whether that bear is an alcoholic dad or an unhinged mom (p228)....I see conflict and I run away or prepare for battle. (p246)

~ J.d. Vance

J.d. Vance Adverse Circumstances Conflict Fight Flee Stress

There is time for a fight and a time for a flight, knowing the right time to do one or the other can mean the difference between life and death

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Bangambiki Habyarimana Fight Fight Back Fighter Fighting Battles Fighting Mad Fighting Spirit Fighting To Survive Flee Fleeing Fleeing Persecution Flight Flight Or Fight

He wanted to flee in shame, to the kitchenette, to the next room, to the fire escapes and rooftops and the places where the city ended.

~ Garth Risk Hallberg

Garth Risk Hallberg City City On Fire Flee Garth Risk Hallberg Shame

You will face yourself again in a moment of terror and will learn once again that old lesson you keep forgetting: that you can escape from anywhere, but you cannot flee your own self.

~ Mihail Sebastian

Mihail Sebastian Flee Lessons Learnt Terror Yourself

To be alone with myself in the space of silence is horrifying, for I know with the utmost certainty that in that space I will hear the very things that I constantly use the clamor to drown out. And so the question becomes, how long can I keep up all the noise?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Denial Drown Out Fear Flee Ignore Justification Mediocrity Placate Rationalization Repress

I want to run. To do what I always do, have always done, for the last five years of my life. Escape, flee into the shadows. But this time, I stand my ground. I'm tired of running.

~ Marie Lu

Marie Lu Escape Flee Running Standing Your Ground

The veneer of civilization fell away to reveal desperate animals, humanity at their worst.

~ Travis Luedke

Travis Luedke Desperation Escape Evacuation Flee Panic Paris War Wwii