{"quotes":[{"text":"Most of our fears are borrowed. Since that’s the case, we should get busy returning them.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["balance","borrow","borrowed","busy","exaggerate","exaggerated","fear","fearing","fears","fiction","frightened","inflated","reality","refuse","reject","rejecting","returning","truth"],"id":8623,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"I think that it is infinitely wiser to accept the fact that we’re afraid, for in accepting our fear we are in no way granting it the power to crush us. Rather we are finally empowering ourselves sufficiently so that we can crush it.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["accept","acceptance","afraid","anxiety","crush","empowered","empowering","fear","fearful","fearing","frighten","frightened","overcome","power","scare","scared","success","successful","victorious","victory"],"id":23994,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Fear tells me that while there might be a host of people who wish to stand beside me in times of crisis, the tangled wreckage is sometimes so enormous that the best of their efforts leave them stranded at a great distance. And standing desperately alone surveying the carnage that holds all others a bay, God suddenly taps me on the shoulder, leans over and whispers, 'how about a little demolition?","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["afraid","alone","carnage","crisis","demolition","desperate","desperately","destruction","faithful","fear","fearful","fearing","frightened","god","isolated","jesus","jesus-christ","lonely","paralysis","stranded","trial","wreckage"],"id":66137,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"The power of a thing is not based on the power it actually possesses. Rather, it is much more about the power that we permit it to possess.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["exaggerate","exaggeration","fear","fearing","give","grant","permission","permit","possess","power","powerful","project","projection"],"id":80782,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"The present is too often squandered grieving the past or fearing the future, which makes the present nothing more than a cheap facsimile of what was or what will be instead of what it could be.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["fear","fearing","future","grieve","grieving","new-year","new-years","past","present"],"id":153110,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"When you choose your life, ignore people, when you make it in life, remember some friends, when you sing a song, praise your source, when predicaments arises, stand your ground.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["choice","don-t-fear","fear","fearing","friends","friendships","hope","ignore","ignoring-people","inspire","inspire-people","intrepid","life","living-your-life","memories","michael-bassey-johnson","praise","predicaments","remembering","sing","song","source","standing-your-ground","your-right-to-choose"],"id":164097,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"A life spent in fear is not much of a life at all.","author":"Daniel Willey","tags":["fear","fearing","life","living"],"id":178360,"author_id":"Daniel+Willey"},{"text":"Comfort is not a goal that I seek, rather it is a place that I hide.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["comfort","comfortable","complacent","escape","escaping","fear","fearful","fearing","goal","hide","mediocre","mediocrity","refuge","retreat","solace"],"id":181712,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Sadly, it seems that I have the proclivity to create plenty of devils, but most of the time I don’t even go looking for angels.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["angels","catastrophic","choices","choosing","devils","exaggerate","exaggerated","exaggerating","fear","fearful","fearing","frightened","god","inflate","over-exaggerate","paranoia","paranoid","satan","worse-case"],"id":208281,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"I cannot be afraid of being afraid. Rather, I need to realize that it is my fear that gives me the energy to wrestle that which I fear into the dirt that is soon to become the road underneath my feet.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["afraid","anxiety","beat","beaten","control","crush","defeat","dirt","energy","fear","fearful","fearing","frighten","frightened","petrified","power","road","scare","scared","success","successful-wrestle","tormented","victory"],"id":213865,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":24,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}