Repercussions Quotes

“Love is as simple as the absence of self given to another. God, when invited, fills the void of any unrequited love; hence loving is how one is drawn closer to God no matter its most horrific repercussions.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

“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 entirely unnecessary or it can bring peace to a thousand places we never knew existed.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Life's Complex Journey

“Surprises are everywhere in life. And they usually come from misjudging people for being less than they appear.”
― Brownell Landrum, Repercussions: DUET stories Volume IV - Adult Version

“It is far kinder and smarter to show someone a better path in life than to darkly follow down their's with the self-righteous belief that you do so with the purer intentions of justly punishing them for their previous actions, making you hypocritically the same and thus influencing further negative repercussions.”
― Isabella Poretsis

“Most often, what I don’t know will have a vastly greater bearing on my life that what I do know.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“ALYCE: 'Gracie's got brown hair, like me. She's about the same height, too. People notice her. I think it's her voice. It's always louder than you expect and covered with laughter.
I was surprised when she said she didn't want to work with me. I don't know Gracie very well, but I remember once in Year 3 she gave me an invitation to her party. She spelt my name right. Everyone always spells it with an 'i', even the teachers. Ever since then I thought she would be nice. I never thought she'd look at me like I was nothing.”
― Cath Crowley, The Life and Times of Gracie Faltrain

“The frustrating thing is to repeatedly tell people what the destructive consequences of their choices are going to be, only to eventually find these very people standing in the midst of the very destruction that was predicted screaming at the top of their lungs that everything is fine.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Consequences are the unflinching compass that I foolishly crush under the foot of my unflinching pride.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I will be the recipient of the consequences of believing that there are none.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I will be the recipient of all of the consequences of believing that there are none.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The degree to which we are bitten by our choices depends on how many teeth we give them.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The only reason that our choices come back to bite us is because we gave them teeth.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We are never fast enough to outrun the consequences of our choices.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You are not bullet-proof. Therefore, you would be wise to quit loading the gun of your decisions with the ammunition of your poor choices.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A gun safety instructor once told me that if you pull the trigger you’re going to create a hole somewhere. So, in the choices that we make in life we would be wise to consider the fact that we’re going to create a hole. And therefore we might want to consider where that hole should be and where it shouldn’t. But maybe the most significant thing that we need to consider is that most triggers never need to be pulled.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Why do we tend to dread tomorrow? Because we weren’t all that wise in living out the ‘today’ that put that ‘tomorrow’ out into tomorrow.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“To the fool, a consequence is a mishap born of misfortune. As such, the fool frequently runs into the consequences that he never identifies and therefore always intensifies.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The fire that we are putting out today is a result of the match that we struck yesterday”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Despite how painful it might have been, the chapter that we wrote today is never the conclusion that we are forced to live out for every tomorrow.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Miracles are the things that God created so that we could be saved from the things that we created.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If it’s true that anger keeps you young, it won’t be long until your anger puts you back in diapers and a jump seat.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If there’s a downside to life we probably had a hand in cutting the grade.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“To make a choice without considering the consequences of that choice is certain to be the worst consequence of all the consequences that are about to follow.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“History will define the consequences of your choice as the choice.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The consequences of your choices will always outlive the choices.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Don’t pay forward today what’s going to set you back tomorrow.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If I’m always ridding today of what I paid forward from yesterday, I need to quit paying forward and begin paying attention.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Most of the mines in the minefields of our life were planted by the choices that we should have never made while we were in the places that we should have never been.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“How often have our choices dug the cliff that we just fell off of?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If we crash and burn, there’s a good chance that we were driving a car that we shouldn’t have been in, on a road that we shouldn’t have been on.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough