Finding Yourself Quotes - Page 11

• I was haunted by trainers going "Up, up, up, get up." You find yourself picking your head up and then realizing, They aren't talking to me.

  Jeff Daniels

  Funny, Dog, Talking

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• All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you do something spectacular and irreversible whenever you find yourself in or whenever you impose yourself upon a wholly unfamiliar situation belonging to somebody else. Frequently it's your soul or your honor or your manhood, or democracy itself, at stake.

  June Jordan

  History, African American, Soul

  June Jordan (1981). “Civil Wars”, Beacon Pr

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• The poverty line is like the age of consent: if you find yourself parsing exactly where it is, you’ve probably already done something very, very wrong.

  John Oliver

  Age, Poverty, Done

  "John Oliver Explains How the Chicken Industry Systematically Screws Over Impoverished Farmers" by Inae Oh, www.motherjones.com. May 18, 2015.

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• You know those moments when everything is exactly the way it was meant to be? When you find yourself and your entire universe aligning in perfect synchronization, and you know you couldn’t possibly be more content? I was inside that very moment, and fully conscious of it.

  Alice Clayton

  Perfect, Way, Were Meant To Be

  Alice Clayton (2016). “The Cocktail Collection: Wallbanger, Rusty Nailed, and Screwdrivered”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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• You consciously look after yourself, whatever that may be to you, whether it's going out for a few drinks and a bit of dinner, or just hitting the couch and watching TV, or going to the gym or yoga class. Just being aware that there's a potential for you to be in it and respecting wherever you find yourself is good enough.

  Colin Farrell

  Yoga, Class, Watching Tv

  "Colin Farrell Talks DEAD MAN DOWN, Working with Noomi Rapace, SAVING MR. BANKS, WINTER’S TALE, EPIC, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 6, 2013.

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• I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy.

  Richard Linklater

  Ambition, Everyday, Where You Live

  ""You can't hold back the human spirit"". Interview with David Walsh, www.wsws.org. March 27, 1998.

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• A hilarious academic novel that'll send you laughing (albeit ruefully) back into the trenches of the classroom. . . . [A] mordant minor masterpiece. . . . Like the best works of farce, academic or otherwise, Dear Committee Members deftly mixes comedy with social criticism and righteous outrage. By the end, you may well find yourself laughing so hard it hurts.

  Maureen Corrigan

  Hurt, Laughing So Hard, Criticism

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• You have to separate yourself from your parents. You do. In order to find yourself.

  Patti Davis

  Order, Parent

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• Do not find yourself in the music, but find the music in yourself

  Heinrich Neuhaus

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• When you find yourself on the Internet when you're supposed to be writing, you've already lost. It's even beyond procrastination when you end up on the Internet.

  Noah Baumbach

  Writing, Procrastination, Internet

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• Look before, or you'll find yourself behind.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Future, Looks, Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.28, Nayika Publishing

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• The older you get, the more you find yourself looking for things you used to see and liked when you were younger.

  Jonathan Pryce

  Used

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In most cases an act of unwelcome sex is no more bother than being vaccinated, so there's no point going on about it as if it werea fate worse than death. With skill and good manners you can avoid having to make the sacrifice, but should you find yourself in a compromising situation largely of your own making, you should stop defending your virtue and start worrying about your maturity. It will give you something to think about while the savage pumper bangs away.

  Quentin Crisp

  Sex, Fate, Sacrifice

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• Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.

  Stephen Dunn

  Basketball, Writing, Discovery

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• Where focus goes, energy flows. And where energy flows, whatever you're focusing on grows. In other words, your life is controlled by what you focus on. That's why you need to focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear. When you next find yourself in a state of uncertainty, resist your fear. Shift your focus toward where you want to go and your actions will take you in that direction.

  Tony Robbins

  Focus, Energy Flow, Want

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• To survive you must find yourself then it won't matter where you are.

  Laurence Gonzales

  Matter, Where You Are

  Laurence Gonzales (2017). “Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why”, p.177, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Make me, dear Lord, polite and kind,
  To everyone, I pray.
  And may I ask you how you find
  Yourself, dear Lord, today?

  John B

  Dear Lord, Today, May

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• Its so important to never limit yourself, to find yourself in a box.

  Ashanti

  Important, Limits, Boxes

  Interview with Shawn Adler, www.ign.com. July 27, 2006.

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• Hand over your responses to the man who triggers them, and you have already lost the battle for self. Look beyond, and find yourself there instead.

  Richard K. Morgan

  Men, Self, Hands

  Richard K. Morgan (2007). “Thirteen”, p.200, Del Rey

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• You all seem to think that you should marry someone when you feel this intense emotion, which you call love. And then you expect that the love will fade over time, as life gets harder. When what you should do is find yourself a nice enough fellow and let real love develop over years and births and deaths and so on.

  J. Courtney Sullivan

  Real, Nice, Thinking

  FaceBook post by J. Courtney Sullivan from Nov 09, 2014

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• Reading centers on finding yourself in a book.

  Anita Silvey

  Book, Reading, Findings

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• Someone asked me about the difference between love and lust. Hmmm. That will take a little thought. How to tell the difference? Well, for guys, if she looks better AFTER you've made love to her than before, that might be love. If you find yourself itching to get out the door afterward, probably just lust, y'know?

  Steven Barnes

  Doors, Differences, Guy

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• You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today.

  Guy Finley

  Inspirational, Today, Destination

  Guy Finley (1994). “Freedom From the Ties That Bind: The Secret of Self Liberation”, p.13, BookBaby

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• I still believe that you truly find yourself not in travel, but in other human souls.

  Emma Forrest

  Believe, Soul, Humans

  Emma Forrest (2012). “Your Voice in My Head”, p.198, A&C Black

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• I never know what to tell them. I mean, there's nothing you can say to make a person stop hurting. Half the time, I just feel like telling them the truth. I'd say that for 3 months, you're going to feel worse than you've ever felt and you cope as best you can. And that after 6 months, the pain isn't so bad, but it still hurts more than you think it will. And even after years, you still find yourself thinking about the person you lost and get sad about it. And you still miss them all the time.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Hurt, Pain, Mean

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