Misguided Quotes

“Don't let the eyes guide the heart, but have the heart guide the eyes.”
― Anthony Liccione

“I constantly pack my pockets full of worthless trinkets, and in such misguided gorging I leave my heart empty and my soul emaciated because I have forgotten everything but trinkets.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“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

“Ignorance has one virtue: persistence. It will insist through dogged persistence on leading others to follow its vision no matter how misguided. Ignorance will drive the world to the brink of failure and catastrophe and beyond into the abyss with arrogance and anger because wisdom is often too polite to fight. Wisdom doesn’t like to impose its will, but that is all ignorance understands—force over free will and choice. Sooner or later the world comes to its senses, but oh the damage that has been done.”
― John Kramer, Blythe

“If truth be told, the easy road is nothing more than an armchair in clever disguise. And if you look around, it seems that there are a whole lot of people in the furniture business.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If I have attached anything to sacrifice other than loss, I have at some level assumed a pay-off. And if I’ve assumed a pay-off, I’m only assuming a sacrifice.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The paralyzing fear of being lost is fed solely by the irrational fear that we will never be found.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If there’s one thing that’s irrefutably absurd, it’s believing that we can separate intelligence from wisdom and still have it be intelligence.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Too often it’s about what stands before us, not what stands within us.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“To assume that I and I alone have all the answers is to eventually find myself entirely alone without any answers.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The assumption of ‘rights’ is the cancer of privilege.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I used to be so dreamy about a man's love as a girl, and think that, for good or evil, love must be the great thing. But it hasn't been; it has been itself a dream.”
― E.M. Forster, Howards End

“Misplaced passion and misguided dreams are the stuff that nightmares are made of.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I am amazed that without any hesitation whatsoever I can completely believe myself to be on a grand journey of massive vistas and bold ascents, only to find that they are nothing more than a figment of a frightened imagination that needed a journey but could not admit to the fear of actually taking one.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The ‘gods’ that do us the greatest harm are the gods we deny having.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It’s thinking that I had the solution that probably created the problem in the first place.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“When he admires the man he calls his father--a man who is slightly above 'the scum of the earth', what does that say about the man who admire him?”
― Terry a O'Neal

“One sign of a troubled democracy is that it has taken “freedom” and “license” to mean the same thing.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A drunk [once] said to me, "Drugs and alcohol are not our problem, reality is our problem; drugs and alcohol are our solution to that problem." [...]

Aren't we all, in one way or another, trying to find a solution to the problem of reality? If I get this job, this girl, this guy, these shoes. If I pass this exam, eat this pizza, drink this booze, go on this holiday. [...] Isn't there always some kind of condition to contentment? Isn't it always placed in the future, wrapped up in some object, either physical or ideological?”
― Russell Brand, Revolution

“Far too often the ‘things’ that men define as success do little more than successfully destroy the lives of the very men who achieve those ‘things.’ And while I must admit that there is an authentic element of success in all of that, it’s the kind of success that I would much prefer to successfully avoid.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Sometimes pain in your heart can be felt very strange
Which misguides your thoughts that you fail to rearrange”
― Munia Khan

“These men mislead fools or misled fools themselves.
I rather take 12 breaths
and rely on my common sense.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Letter 19

“How often have we taken up arms in some crusade that appeared so impeccably brilliant, indisputably praiseworthy, and immeasurably grand that we came to believe that the crusade itself transcended all of the truth that would show it to be none of those things? And in the end, how many times were the arms that we took up in such a crusade discharged in our direction?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Bad logic was an early warning sign for prejudice.”
― Martin Puchner, The Language of Thieves: My Family's Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate

“The best way to find everything that you’re ‘not’ looking for is to head out on some search without having any idea of what it is that you ‘are’ looking for.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Hard work on the wrong task is the fool’s errand on overdrive.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Richness is not found in changing something that does not suit our preferences or orientation. Rather, real richness is found in understanding there is a definitive purpose that will be sacrificed in the changing that the changing will never make up for.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The greatest way to waste a life is to expend it fighting for something that was popular with the masses but empty of everything else, as those are the battles that most people are fighting and the disappointment that every one of them are experiencing.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Did it never occur to you I’ve always listened intently to your every fantasy? That it is up to me to decide what I consider a waste and what I would spend myself gladly doing?”
― Mostafa A. M. Elbehery, The Sapphire Shore

“Falling for someone can be scary," Julia said, teacherly tone back in full force. "Especially if you're not sure they feel the same way or if you think they're just paying attention to you out of some sort musguided attempt at charity.”
― Maggie Dallen, Love at First Fight