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If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
– Gertrude Stein

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  1. Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something. – Gertrude Stein
  2. Be careful when rising to the top. Be more careful when you get there. The higher you go, the riskier it gets. Be careful. Be very careful. – Israelmore Ayivor
  3. It is very easy to love alone. – Gertrude Stein
  4. I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do. – Gertrude Stein
  5. I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought. – Gertrude Stein
  6. Nature and man are opposed in Spain. – Gertrude Stein
  7. For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. – Gertrude Stein
  8. We are always the same age inside. – Gertrude Stein
  9. If you throw stones on my way to stumble and I fall, you try to put extra care when passing my way, lest you stumble and fall. – Vlgame
  10. Be careful your footsteps do not stumble by the stumbling stone. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  11. I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of stomach cancer. I decided that nobody should suffer that much. – Gertrude B Elion
  12. Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious. – Friedrich Nietzsche
  13. His idleness was his refuge, and in this he was like many others in [occupied] France in that period; laziness became political. – Iain Pears
  14. The holy country is occupied by holy citizens. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  15. …the space which [books] occupied was itself an expectation. – Cormac McCarthy
  16. Have you noticed how just trying to impose any sort of chronology on events makes it seem as though a lot of time has been occupied? – James HamiltonPaterson
  17. If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future. – Blaise Pascal
  18. In state of deep depression, I stayed alone; my time was occupied with reading sacred books. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  19. She seemed to be occupied with of inner chamber of ideas and to have slight need for visible objects. – Thomas Hardy
  20. Why are we occupied with material wealth than spiritual nourishment? – Lailah Gifty Akita
  21. I felt alone, my loneliness suffocated me, and I craved to scream, shout and kill me while seeing all this. However, self-hatred also occupied me. – Shaikh Ashraf
  22. Jung was absolutely right about one thing. We are occupied by gods. The mistake is to identify with the god occupying you. – Michael Ondaatje
  23. I am relentlessly determine to be occupied with Jesus Christ and His Glorious Gospel and nothing else. – John Paul Warren
  24. Just because you have stolen someone’s heart, luckily owned and occupied as a home, doesn’t give you the audacity to enforce hurtful policies. – Michael Bassey Johnson
  25. The shadow of the passions of the moment transversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things. – Victor Hugo
  26. That gap between half sleep and half awakening has always been occupied by nostalgia. – Shreya Gupta
  27. . . . for a good story, told often enough puts you in rooms you’ve never occupied. – Mary Karr
  28. She moved like water, graceful and soft and lovely. Every part of me wanted to stick out my foot and trip her, just to see her stumble. – Cassandra Rose Clarke
  29. No one wants to stumble into gates on moonless nights to trip in holes dug by dogs, but Maria finds more beauty than danger in night. – Jeannine Atkins
  30. This is our life; dreams come true, and dreams stumble, while others dreams remain postponed perpetuity… – Eyden I
  31. …A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight. – Brandon Sanderson
  32. Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip. – Charles Caleb Colton
  33. Always move towards the light even if you stumble on your path cause it casts a shadow on the miseries of our past. – Andy Flynn
  34. Praise children when they do good, And if they should stumble or fall, Show them how to be humble,Show them how to stand tall – Charmaine J Forde
  35. A girl can dream can’t she? My new life plan is to stumble into every office of a CEO until I find a Christian Grey. – Sophie Monroe
  36. How do you let go of anger? How do you release a fury you’ve been standing on for so long, you would stumble were it yanked away? – Mitch Albom
  37. Only those who never step, never stumble. – Richard Paul Evans
  38. Focus on giants – you stumble.Focus on God – Giants tumble. – Max Lucado
  39. Man will occasionally stumble upon the truth but most times he will pick himself up and continue on. – Winston S Churchill
  40. Maybe you’re smiling as I stumble to put my feelings into words. But I’m trying to do her justice, you know? – James Lusarde

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