Finding Yourself Quotes - Page 13

• No matter how carefully you plan it, there are times when you suddenly find yourself a committee of one, in charge of lifting the entire world with a lever.

  Ivy Baker Priest

  Responsibility, World, Levers

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• Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser's way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.

  Alexander Pope

  Reality, Growth, Mars

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• Words are the litmus paper of the minds. If you find yourself in the power of someone who will use the word "commence" in cold blood, go somewhere else very quickly. But if they say "Enter", don't stop to pack.

  Terry Pratchett

  Blood, Somewhere Else, Mind

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)”, p.134, Random House

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• Like all mothers, mother nature is delighted to keep in touch with you when you're appearing in hit tv shows like BJ and the bear and My Two Dads but when you suddenly find yourself hosting When Insects Attack, oh she becomes strangely distant.

  Greg Evigan

  Mother, Dad, Tv Shows

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• The longer I lived, the more beautiful life became - despite my personal tragedies, the fire, despite my third wife and her dreadful taste. My dear Olgivanna, she insisted on replacing the lovely canvas and wooden trusses at Taliesin West with steel supports and pink frosted glass. Well, I was too old to care by then. What I decided early on was this: If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Beautiful, Fire, Glasses

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• Man is almost mad-mad because he is seeking something which he has already got; mad because he's not aware of who he is; mad because he hopes, desires and then ultimately, feels frustrated. Frustration is bound to be there because you cannot find yourself by seeking; you are already there. The seeking has to stop, the search has to drop.

  Rajneesh

  Frustration, Men, Mad

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• To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to.

  Moliere

  Inspirational, Break Up, Pride

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• Painting is the act of discovery and you're constantly enlarging your horizon or finding yourself every time you paint.

  Romare Bearden

  Discovery, Horizon, Painting

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• If you ever find yourself walking a mile in my shoes, I hope that you would be at least be given the same choice.

  Brittany Maynard

  Emotional, Shoes, Choices

  "My right to death with dignity at 29" by Brittany Maynard, www.cnn.com. November 2, 2014.

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• If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room.

  Bill Laswell

  Moving, Long, Listening

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• I'm mostly a keep-to-myself kind of guy, but you slowly find yourself getting folded into the musical tapestry.

  James Vincent McMorrow

  Guy, Musical, Kind

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• Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.

  Vernon Howard

  Breathing, Personality, Easy

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• in a village you can't sack or fight with someone, as you'll find yourself stuck beside them in the hairdresser's next morning.

  Jilly Cooper

  Morning, Fighting, Next

  Jilly Cooper (2011). “Turn Right At The Spotted Dog”, p.59, Random House

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• Master your words. Master your thoughts. Never allow your body to do harm. Follow these three roads with purity And you will find yourself upon the one way, The way of wisdom.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiring, Wise, Buddhist

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• But if you miss it, you will next be confronted with the angry deities, ... threatening you and barring your passage ... because you turned a deaf ear to the saving truths of religion. All these forms are strange to you, ... they terrify you, ... and yet it is you who have created them. Do not give in to your fright, ... flee them not! They are but ... the contents of your own mind... If at this point you should manage to understand that, ... and you will find yourself in a paradise among the angels.

  Gautama Buddha

  Book, Angel, Giving

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• In whatever position you find yourself, determine first your objective.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Firsts, April, Determine

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• Here's a practice for dealing with envy...each time you find yourself envious of someone...ask yourself, "What is there that I am noticing in the other person that I want to find in myself?"...If it's money, is it the freedom? The cance to play that money buys? A sense of security? Whatever it is-more play, a sense of security, free time-you can work on getting more of it in your life, no matter what the circumstances.

  M. J. Ryan

  Gratitude, Play, Practice

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• Let your invocation be the all-embracing Name, which is Allah, Allah, Allah, or if you so wish, Huwa, Huwa, Huwa; and do not violate this remembrance. Be careful lest your tongue pronounce it while other-than-He is in your heart. Let your heart be the one who utters, and your ear the one who is attentive to this invocation until the 'speaker' emanates from your Self (sirr). When you feel the emergence of the Speaker within you through the invocation, do not abandon the spiritual condition wherein you find yourself.

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Spiritual, Heart, Names

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• Do not first announce action, and then, when you are unable to take action, withdraw, because you will only find yourself in the same position as now, plus a public and humiliating confession of impotence.

  Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

  Politics, Firsts, Action

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• If you choose to get off the beaten path here, you'll find yourself in a situation where everything looks the same.

  Joe Teti

  Off The Beaten Path, Survival, Looks

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• Quiet people, people who arent given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - theyre also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting.

  Damian Lewis

  Quiet People, Fun, Emotional

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• It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Littles, Chance, Individual

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• One was a book I read by Mahatma Gandhi. In it was a passage where he said that religion, the pursuing of the inner journey, should not be separated from the pursuing of the outer and social journey, because we are not isolated beings.

  Satish Kumar

  Book, Journey, Social

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• What you discover on your own is always more exciting than what someone else discovers for you - it's like the marriage between romantic love and an arranged marriage.

  Terrence Rafferty

  Knowledge, Romantic Love, Discovering Your True Self

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• We at the Christian Writers Guild couldn't be more proud of Brandy Vallance. Let her debut novel transport you to an entirely fresh time and place where you'll soon forget you're turning pages and find yourself riveted to the destinies of characters who'll leave a lasting impression on your heart.

  Jerry B. Jenkins

  Christian, Heart, Character

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