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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

Success and Failure Aren’t the Grades After Your Test; They Are the Test, and Success Is an Advance Placement Test

Success and failure
Have nothing to do with what you deserve
And everything to do with what you need
Making it equally important
In victory and defeat
To say:
I don’t deserve this
But I need to learn from it
 
Failure
While more painful than success
Is for that very reason
Less dangerous than success
Because it is easier to learn from
 
Success
Is life’s harshest taskmaster
Requiring levels of dedication and humility
Orders of magnitude beyond the common ground most of us tread
 
Which is why God, in His mercy
Strews our path with failure
That we might learn enough to succeed
When we eventually succeed

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“Demolition Crew Accidentally Knocks Down Wrong Building in Baltimore”

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My One and Only You

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People Will Do Anything Not to Feel Bored

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The Squeeze Play

With social media You can squeeze All of the people All of the time
Where I Come From, There’s Only One Rule: Don’t Talk Back

A boundary is a line until you cross it when it becomes a binding leaving you all tied up with nowhere to go
The Call Is Called Desire and Desire Is the Will to Do the Impossible

It’s obvious that God is doing us… But it’s less widely acknowledged… God calls in all His favors And the only way to return the fav… Is to try and do the impossible
“It can be harassment.”

Never answer a yes or no question. Answer the question that you wish had been asked of you: “Ms. Magill, I’m gonna give you one more opportunity for the world to see your answer. Does...
Condemned to Freedom

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“You open your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing”

God’s hand Is a fist Until the moment You come to fear God
Hi-Yo Silver! Stay!

I wish I could be the Lone Ranger Instead like everyone else I’m the known stranger
All Dreams Fulfill Wishes and Spacetime Is a Lucid Dream in Which You Move Towards Your Deepest Desire by Working for It; For Many People It Helps if They Suspend Disbelief by Imagining the Dream Is Real

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Count Me Out

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Who Are You Talking to When You’re Talking to Yourself?

Every ego is a God complex And like you I almost had myself convinced that I am who I am
Third Places and Fourth Walls

When they locked down the third pl… (Houses of worship) And made the first two places (Home and work) Into one place
Nothing Is More Threatening to the Self-loathing Than the Power of Love

It is only when you conduct a fearless moral inventory that you will come to fear God because you knew the right thing t… but did the wrong thing anyway



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