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• Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.

  Eudora Welty

  Writing, Experience, Stories

  Eudora Welty (1995). “One Writer's Beginnings”, p.90, Harvard University Press

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• One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Witty, Laughter

  Pride and Prejudice ch. 40 (1813)

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• Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block with math - I used to come home and cry because of how frustrated I was! But after a few good teachers and a lot of perseverance, I ended up loving math and even choosing it as a major when I got to college.

  Danica McKellar

  Perseverance, Teacher, Block

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• The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.

  Mahalia Jackson

  Block, Moving, Mad

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• The fact was, Ford kept stumbling around. I didn't want him in the White House. I wanted Carter in, and I had a forum of 20 million people watching.

  Chevy Chase

  Fog, White, People

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• I admit that I am hopelessly hooked on the printed newspaper. I love turning the pages and the serendipity of stumbling across a piece of irresistible information or a photograph that I wasnt necessarily intending to read.

  Jill Abramson

  Serendipity, Pieces, Pages

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• Sin and forgiveness and falling and getting back up and losing the pearl of great price in the couch cushions but then finding it again, and again, and again? Those are the stumbling steps to becoming Real, the only script that's really worth following in this world or the one that's coming.

  Brennan Manning

  Real, Fall, Getting Back Up

  "All Is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir". Book by Brennan Manning and John Blase, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 2011.

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• Racism may be as systemic as it always was. It is the great problem of America. It's the one stumbling block that I don't believe was ever smoothed over.

  Robert Guillaume

  Block, Believe, America

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• The crowd, still shouting, gives way before us. We plough our way through. Women hold their aprons over their faces and go stumbling away. A roar of fury goes up. A wounded man is being carried off.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Men, Giving, Ploughing

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “The Road Back: A Novel”, p.249, Random House

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• Don't stumble over something behind you.

  Seneca the Younger

  Motivational, Wisdom, Inspiration

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• Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.

  H. Emilie Cady

  Adversity, Men, Mountain

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• I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

  Boris Pasternak

  Inspirational, Life, Failure

  Doctor Zhivago ch. 13 (1958) (translation by Max Hayward and Manya Harari)

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• Blind fear, that seeing reason leads, finds safer footing than blind reason stumbling without fear: to fear the worst oft cures the worse.

  William Shakespeare

  Blind, Reason, Cures

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Troilus and Cressida In Plain and Simple English: A Modern Translation and the Original Version”, p.132, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Walk firmly and with joy, without being afraid of stumbling. All your movements are being watched by your allies that will help you when necessary.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Joy

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• You know what my greatest personal stumbling block is? My shyness.

  Susan Lucci

  Block, Shy, Knows

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• By your stumbling, the world is perfected.

  Sri Aurobindo

  World

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• It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.

  Eric Clapton

  Powerful, Drug, Outlook

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• I'm not a parenting expert. In fact, I'm not sure that I even believe in the idea of 'parenting experts.' I'm an engaged, imperfect parent and a passionate researcher. I'm an experienced mapmaker and a stumbling traveler. Like many of you, parenting is by far my boldest and most daring adventure.

  Brené Brown

  Believe, Adventure, Ideas

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, andLead”, p.216, Penguin

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• I'm alone, stumbling through the city in the dark, trying not to let the night freeze my blood.

  Isaac Marion

  Dark, Night, Blood

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• My best ideas almost always come from winding up in unexpected places and stumbling across things I never could have imagined in advance.

  Damian Kulash

  Ideas, Unexpected, Winding Up

  "Damian Kulash of OK Go: On Creativity, Design, and Activism". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Don't give up. Keep going. there is always a chance that you stumble onto something terrific. I have never heard of anyone stumbling over anything while he was sitting down

  Ann Landers

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Giving Up

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• The generalizing writer is like the passionate drunk, stumbling into your house mumbling: I know I'm not being clear, exactly, but don't you kind of feel what I'm feeling?

  George Saunders

  Drunk, House, Feelings

  George Saunders (2012). “The Brain-Dead Megaphone”, p.14, A&C Black

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• Our wounds ultimately give us wisdom. Our stumbling blocks inevitably become our stepping stones. And our setbacks lead us to our strengths

  Robin Sharma

  Block, Giving, Stones

  Robin Sharma (2005). “Family Wisdom From The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari”, p.25, Jaico Publishing House

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• Inconsistent professors are the greatest stumbling blocks to the spread of the cause of Christ!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Block, Causes, Christ

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “The Complete Works of Charles Spurgeon, Volume 38”, p.175, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Even when you are striving, stumbling and struggling, it's exhilarating if you sense you are growing.

  Brenda Poinsett

  Struggle, Growth, Growing

  Brenda Poinsett (2000). “What Will I Do with the Rest of My Life?: A Woman's Guide to Discovering Peace, Power, and Purpose After 40”, Navpress Publishing Group

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