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41 " Why is it that crisis pushes me to my own devices when those devices are frequently the very things that produced my crisis in the first place? "
― Craig D. Lounsbrough
42 " Risk is the stuff that sucks the predictability right out of the very things that we desperately wish were predictable. "
43 " Somewhere in the world there was a young woman with such splendid understanding that she'd see him entire, like a poem or story, and find his words so valuable after all that when he confessed his apprehensions she would explain why they were in fact the very things that made him precious to her...and to Western Civilization! There was no such girl, the simple truth being. "
― John Barth , Lost in the Funhouse
44 " To be alone with myself in the space of silence is horrifying, for I know with the utmost certainty that in that space I will hear the very things that I constantly use the clamor to drown out. And so the question becomes, how long can I keep up all the noise? "
45 " I am blind to the very things that make for our own peace. "
― Oswald Chambers , My Utmost for His Highest
46 " I became more courageous by doing the very things I needed to be courageous for-first a little and badly. Then bit by bit more and better. Being avidly-sometimes annoy-ingly-curious and persistent about discovering how others were doing what I wanted to do. "
47 " When something does not insist on being noticed when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. "