I often think myself to be so ingenious that I don’t even realize that my own plans may actually be my own undoing. Therefore, I might be wise to realize that God’s plans undo what I’ve done that’s undoing me.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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Some patient dogs had waited a long time for the fatest bone to come, but the impatient had gone to scavenge for the little it could see.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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Have only this consolation--that he was never a fiend or even truly a madman, but only an eager, studious, and curious boy whose love of mystery and of the past was his undoing. He stumbled on things no mortal ought ever to know, and reached back through the years as no one ever should reach; and something came out of those years to engulf him.

~ H.p. Lovecraft

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Don't plead with anyone if you were not at fault, you'll only look inferior, stupid and funny, bolster your ego by doing the undoing.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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With eye and hand and breath and will.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin Gift Undoing

The mother of an adult child sees her work completed and undone at the same time.' If this holds true, I may have to withstand not only rage, but also my undoing. Can one prepare for one's undoing? How has my mother withstood mine? Why do I continue to undo her, when what I want to express above all else is that I lover her very much?

~ Maggie Nelson

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