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1 " I couldn't stand here, hanging on, when the very thing I held disappeared more with each passing day. "
― Becca Fitzpatrick , Crescendo (Hush, Hush, #2)
2 " The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us. "
― Michel Foucault
3 " To see evil and call it good, mocks God. Worse, it makes goodness meaningless. A word without meaning is an abomination, for when the word passes beyond understanding the very thing the word stands for passes out of the world and cannot be recalled. "
― Stephen R. Lawhead , Arthur (The Pendragon Cycle, #3)
4 " The tragedy is that what you disapprove of in others is the very thing you disapprove of in yourself. "
― Stephen Richards
5 " Lifeless life is the very thing Jesus came to rescue us from. "
― Erin M. Straza , Comfort Detox: Finding Freedom from Habits That Bind You
6 " The decline in the influence of religion has been due, in the main, not to religion itself, but to the very shallowness of many practitioners. People who are indoctrinated and mistake implanted obsession for faith, are themselves destroyers of the very thing which they imagine themselves called upon to try to protect.In fact, of course, they have no such call: and their capacity to protect something which is other than their imaginings makes for a comical situation. "
― Idries Shah
7 " Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words. "
― C.S. Lewis
8 " Take a step towards actualizing the very thing you are persuaded for and do not allow injustice to silence your voice. "
― , The Mountain of Ignorance
9 " I don't tell you this story today in order to encourage all of you in the class of '04 to find careers in the music business, but rather to suggest what the next decade of your lives is likely to be about, and that is, trying to ensure that you don't wake up at 32 or 35 or 40 tenured to a life that happened to you when you weren't paying strict attention, either because the money was good, or it made your parents proud, or because you were unlucky enough to discover an aptitude for the very thing that bores you to tears, or for any of the other semi-valid reasons people marshal to justify allowing the true passion of their lives to leak away. If you're lucky, you may have more than one chance to get things right, but second and third chances, like second and third marriages, can be dicey propositions, and they don't come with guarantees.... The question then is this: How does a person keep from living the wrong life? "
― Richard Russo
10 " Sometimes" , said Miss Phillips, " the thing you dread doing the very thing you should do, just so you can stop thinking about it. "
11 " ...I realize that lessons are meant to be learned, honored even, or else you can spend your life running so far from them that you erect a false existence around the very thing you should be embracing. "
12 " Life is not a competition. No one has to lose for someone else to win. A true blessing blesses everyone. A fragmented love which makes others lose will eventually turn upon itself and destroy the very thing which was being so carefully guarded. An open-hearted love will follow a course which can only lead somewhere good. "
― Donna Goddard , Waldmeer (Waldmeer, #1)
13 " That deep longing that you keep dismissing as impractical, may be the very thing your soul is calling you to do. "
14 " The body cannot be afraid of death. The movement that is created by society or culture is what does not want to come to an end. . . . What you are afraid of is not death. In fact, you don't want to be free from fear. . . . It is the fear that makes you believe that you are living and that you will be dead. What we do not want is the fear to come to an end. That is why we have invented all these new minds, new science, new talk, therapies, choiceless awareness and various other gimmicks. Fear is the very thing that you do not want to be free from. What you call “yourself” is fear. The “you” is born out of fear; it lives in fear, functions in fear and dies in fear. "
― U.G. Krishnamurti ,
15 " You fear you will fail at the very thing you were born for. And your fear torments you...instead of shunning your fear, you must let it speak and listen carefully to what it's trying to tell you. It will give you good counsel. "
― Jennifer Donnelly , Deep Blue (Waterfire Saga, #1)
16 " Emotions don’t arrive intact. Shards injure you incrementally, so small at first you don’t notice them. Over time, the damage builds and one day you realise the nicks and cuts have become gaping wounds. Worse still, they’ve become the very thing that defines you. "
― Nigel Jay Cooper
17 " Our fight was not for ownership of a fertile piece of land. It was about defending the sanctity of ethics and fairness and dignity --- about defending humanity. Those are the values worth fighting for. If we forsake those very values in war, we become the very thing we are fighting against. We become them. Then what do we have left to fight for? "
― Shatrujeet Nath , The Conspiracy at Meru (Vikramaditya Veergatha, #2)
18 " The State which would provide everything, absorbing everything into itself, would ultimately become a mere bureaucracy incapable of guaranteeing the very thing which the suffering person—every person—needs: namely, loving personal concern. We do not need a State which regulates and controls everything, but a State which, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity, generously acknowledges and supports initiatives arising from the different social forces and combines spontaneity with closeness to those in need. The Church is one of those living forces. "
― Benedict XVI , God Is Love: Deus Caritas Est
19 " In the twentieth century the women who wanted to be on their own were some of the best, the honest ones, those who instinctively rejected the trash. But here came a tragical dilemma. If they accepted Business and served it, they served the very thing from which they fled, and at best became imitation men. If they rejected Business and lived on allowances or incomes, they were in the anomalous position of hunting with the industrial hounds and running with the agricultural hare. An instinctive sense of this made many of them turn " artist." And so Europe was cluttered up with incompetent women " artists" -- not that a woman is incapable of being an artist, but because the assumed role provided an escape. Either situation was impossible, and the solution is not yet found. "
20 " Perhaps the difficulty in measuring Change Management is that the very thing we are measuring is changing. "
― Pearl Zhu , Change Insight: Change as an Ongoing Capability to Fuel Digital Transformation
