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61 " What if our badness and mistakes are the very thing that set our fate and bring us round to good? What if, for some of us, we can't get there any other way? "
― Donna Tartt
62 " We all have a central fiction about ourselves, a favored delusion about talent or untapped potential. Most of us hang on to it as if it were a lifesaver, even though the obsession with it is often the very thing that drags us down and prevents us from fulfilling some lesser but more obtainable goal. "
― Stephen McCauley , Insignificant Others
63 " It is human nature to try hardest to accomplish the very thing we are told is impossible. Why? Because innately we know that nothing's impossible. "
― Richelle E. Goodrich , Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
64 " It's like an addiction, one I battle every day. It appeared at first drink. I was becoming the very thing I feared---my father's son. I wanted to be as far away from that Threshold as possible. I swore I'd never take another sip, no matter how crazy it made me. No matter how much it called to me. Resisting became easier with time. "
― Sara Ella , Unblemished (Unblemished #1)
65 " The most important and most significant good quality in our human life is gratitude. Unfortunately, that good quality we somehow manage not to express either in our thoughts or in our actions. Right from the beginning of our life, we have somehow learned not to express it. So we have the least amount of the very thing that we need most in order to become a better person. "
― Sri Chinmoy , The Jewels of Happiness: Inspiration and Wisdom to Guide Your Life-Journey
66 " People spend their entire lives fearing the very thing you apparently crave. They do anything they can to delay the process or fool themselves into believing it’s farther away than it actually is. With every passing year, with every milestone, they only feel more anxiety, more inclination to defeat this inevitability of nature, only to realize that they’ve fostered an entire life of crippling fear, wasted on the fixation of its end. And there you sit, begging for it. "
― Luna DeMasi , The Black Swan Company
67 " ...this miserable trick the romantic plays upon himself: of setting just beyond his reach the very thing he prizes. "
― Walker Percy , The Moviegoer
68 " in the modern era, many thinkers began to mistrust faith, viewing it as 'blind' and an enemy of reason. Their watchword was 'reason alone.' One of the difficulties of this stance is that reason cannot test its own reliability, any more than soapstone can test its own hardness. Any argument, accomplished by reasoning, that what reasoning accomplishes can be trusted, would be circular, because it would take for granted the very thing that it was trying to prove.Suppose I am at the window of a burning building. Although I can hear the firemen calling to me from far below, I cannot see them because of all the smoke. They are telling me to jump. Though I may have every reason to believe that they will catch me in their net, I may not trust them enough to overcome my fear, and so, hesitating, I burn to death. Obviously, my reasons are not the same as trust; faith surpasses reason. Even so they are reasons for trust; though faith surpasses reason, it is not irrational. "
― J. Budziszewski
69 " Had they not been taken, she asked, to circuses when they were children? Never, he answered, as if she asked the very thing he wanted; had been longing all these days to say, how they did not go to circuses. "
― Virginia Woolf , To the Lighthouse
70 " Desperation will drive you to do things you know will never make you whole again and even to lose the very thing you’re desperate for. "
― Laura Miller , My Butterfly (Butterfly Weeds, #2)
71 " The more he smiled, the more I wanted to hate him, and yet it was the very thing that made hating him impossible. "
― Jamie McGuire
72 " [I]mpermanence [is] the very thing that makes [life] vibrant, wonderful, and alive. "
― Steve Hagen , Buddhism Plain and Simple
73 " Maybe her husband was right: maybe change didn't necessarily mean disaster. Maybe the mess of life was the very thing she was supposed to enjoy instead of always fighting it, trying to impose order. The universe was trying to tell her something - was it, perhaps, to let go? "
― Wendy Francis , The Summer of Good Intentions
74 " Often when he was teaching me to write in Greek, the Fox would say, " 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 is the whole art and joy of words." A glib saying. "
75 " Sometimes we pray earnestly, other times we only make a slight mention of a thing and with great expectation, we await the answers to our request. Yet, we are blown away at the fulfillment of the very thing for which we pulled on heaven. You know why? In those moments we see the magnanimity of GOD's unfailing mercy to undeserving men like us. "
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76 " When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth. "
― Arthur Conan Doyle , The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #9)
77 " Sometimes what you’re most afraid of doing is the very thing that will set you free. "
78 " If four of you are playing hide and seek you'll only ever find the other three. For you are already right here. So what on earth is it that you're looking for? You are the very thing that you seek. "
― Rasheed Ogunlaru
79 " One thing that gives meaning to our thinking, drive our understanding, and determines what makes us happy or unhappy is the very thing we seek to have, and we yearn for to be happy and feel alright. Aside that thing, life, the understanding of life, and how life should be lived is different all together. "
80 " Sometimes chaos is the very thing that deliberately shakes up our neatly ordered world’s in order to get us out of the neatly ordered ruts that have kept us stuck. "
― Craig D. Lounsbrough