{"quotes":[{"text":"To pretend is to do nothing more than imagine life as something wonderful so that we don’t have to incur the pain that it takes to actually make life wonderful.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["change","commitment","imagination","imagine","influence","life","pain","pretend","pretending","sacrifice","sacrificing","suffering","transform","transformation","wonderful","work"],"id":43763,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"If sacrifice is not the theme of my life, there’s no sense telling the story.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["calling","generosity","generous","give","giving","intent","life","meaning","mission","purpose","sacrifice","sacrificing","story","telling","theme","value"],"id":65202,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"To be ignorant of the sacrifices of others that yielded the blessings I enjoy leaves me exchanging the reality of 'blessing' for the assumption of 'entitlement.' And once that happens, I will forfeit the reality of the former which will destroy the assumption of the latter. And in what terribly dark place will that now leave me?","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["america","appreciate","appreciation","assumption","blessing","blessings","cherish","cherishing","entitled","entitlement","fourth-of-july","gift","gifts","give","giving","memorial-day","reality","sacred","sacrifices","sacrificing","united-states","united-states-of-america","value"],"id":65884,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Discerning the difference between a dictator and a leader is quite easy. The former cannot help but see ‘leading’ and ‘serving’ as stark contradictions that by their very nature are utterly incompatible. The latter can’t tell the difference.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["deceit","deception","despot","dictator","elections","government","government-corruption","guide","leader","leadership","manager","politician","politics","sacrifice","sacrificing","servant-leadership","tyrant","united-states","visionary"],"id":101450,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"The difference between a ‘man’ and a ‘father’ is that the former shares his genes, but latter gives his life.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["child-children","commit","commitment","dad","daddy","families","family","father","father-s-day","fatherhood","genes","giving","legacy","male","man","men","parent","parenting","sacrifice","sacrificial","sacrificing","sharing"],"id":117341,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"It's unfortunate to be bitten by political ambition. The deadly disease causes a man to want to access power by all means either by sacrificing others to its altar or by sacrificing himself when he fails.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["absolute-power","altar-of-power","ambition","ambition-and-attitude","ambition-life-ambitions","ambition","ambition","ambitions","bangambiki","dictatorship","lies-politics","love-of-power","loyalty","loyalty-and-disloyalty","loyalty-and-disloyalty","loyalty","lust-for-power","macchiavelli","machiavellian","maintaining-power","misuse-of-power","political","political-ambition","political-ambition","political-correctness","political-philosophy","politicians","politics","power","power-addiction","power-politics","sacrifice","sacrifice-for-gain","sacrifice-for-others","sacrifice-in-life","sacrifice","sacrificed","sacrifices","sacrificing","survival-instinct","survival-is-the-name-of-the-game","survival-of-the-fittest","survival","survival-story","survivalism","survivalist","survive","surviving-life","survivor","the-great-pearl-of-wisdom"],"id":138288,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"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.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["assume","assuming","compensate","compensation","delude","deluded","errant","error","give","give-and-take","giving","loss","losses","misguided","misleading","misled","pay-off","return","reward","rewarded","sacrifice","sacrificial","sacrificing","self-centered","selfish","selfishness"],"id":172933,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"If I’m asking what kind of ‘return’ I should be expecting on the sacrifices I’m making, I have in that question revealed the need to ‘return’ that question to wherever I found it and have the word ‘return’ edited out of it.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["dividend","edit","editing","egocentric","giving","greed","misconstrue","misunderstand","misunderstood","narcissism","narcissistic","question","return","sacrifice","sacrifices","sacrificial","sacrificing","self-serving","selfish","selfishness","selfless","wisdom","word","wording"],"id":215691,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Love never lives on a one-way street, for it will always come back up the road bigger than how we had sent it down the road.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["bigger","come-back","family","friendship","give","giving","larger","love","marriage","partner","receive","reciprocal","reciprocity","relationship","return","road","sacrifice","sacrificing","street"],"id":219745,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"The father who has selflessly poured himself into the life of his children may leave no other monument than that of his children. But as for a life well lived, no other monument is necessary.","author":"Craig D. 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