Finding Yourself Quotes - Page 14

• If, in moving through your life, you find yourself lost, go back to the last place where you knew who you were, and what you were doing, and start from there.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Moving, Lasts, Lost

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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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• 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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• 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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• I get so fed up with the making of an album taking over my life - it's all I can think about or talk about. You find yourself in a rut and lacking inspiration and it's hard to get out of that because I'm working alone in the studio.

  Imogen Heap

  Inspiration, Thinking, Working Alone

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• I had my moments for sure but I wasn't confrontational. And sometimes you get on the court and you'd find yourself very confrontational. It was all a discovery.

  Andre Agassi

  Discovery, Sometimes, Moments

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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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• The more you try to be like someone else, the more you find yourself standing in the way.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Trying, Way, Standing

  Gregory David Roberts (2012). “Shantaram”, p.509, Hachette UK

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• If you find yourself saying 'I can't do something', but you know it in your heart of hearts that if you do it, you're going to grow, you're going to be a better person, it's going to contribute to your family or to your kids or to something that matters, and you keep saying 'I can't do it,' there is no question—you must do it. You don't discuss it anymore. You just take immediate action... You do what's necessary.

  Tony Robbins

  Kids, Heart, Matter

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• There are some great questions to ask your doctor. If he says 'no,' then you find yourself a different doctor. There really has to be a change in how we medically look at women at this time. I mean, this is not just baby gloom.

  Marie Osmond

  Baby, Mean, Parenting

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• Lo, for I to myself am unknown, now in God's name what must I do?

  Rumi

  Who I Am, Names

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• If you would find gold, you must search where gold is.

  William Juneau

  Gold, Ifs, Self Discovery

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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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• I've found that there is always some beauty left-in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you. Look at these things, then you find yourself again, and God, and then you regain your balance. And whoever is happy will make others happy too. He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

  Anne Frank

  Sunshine, Make Others Happy, Balance

  Anne Frank (1959). “The Works of Anne Frank”, Greenwood Press

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• If you find yourself perplexed, or perhaps in a quandary, remember that human growth is perpendicular. We grow up and we grow forward, we just have to keep on growing steadily in both ways.

  John Rzeznik

  Growing Up, Growth, Way

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• Spreading the word on a zero budget is difficult. You find yourself spending all night on Twitter following people; using Facebook to leave messages on various club walls; commenting on YouTube clips and blog posts; giving interviews online and taking photos of bottles to send to websites in the hope that they feature you.

  Andrew Nicholson

  Zero, Wall, Night

  "Andrew Nicolson – Co-founder of Whisky Blender". IdeaMensch Interview, ideamensch.com. January 31, 2012.

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• If you find yourself focusing on negative scenarios, ask us angels to transmute this fearful energy into love.

  Doreen Virtue

  Angel, Energy, Negative

  Doreen Virtue (2008). “Daily Guidance from Your Angels”, p.332, Hay House, Inc

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• Sometimes you panic and find yourself emitting remarks so profoundly inane that you would be embarrassed to say them to your dog. Your dog would look at you and think to itself, 'I may lick myself in public, but I'd never say anything as stupid as that.'

  Dave Barry

  Dog, Stupid, Thinking

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• The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you're not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one.

  Herman Wouk

  Navy, Genius, Execution

  Herman Wouk (1980). “The Caine mutiny”, Pocket

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• So let me get this straight. You find yourself in the kitchen. You see an éclair in the receptacle... and you think to yourself: "What the hell, I'll just eat some trash."

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Thinking, Kitchen, Eclairs

  "Fictional character: Jerry Seinfeld". TV Series "Seinfeld" ("The Gymnast", 1994), www.imdb.com. 1989–1998.

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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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• I ain't never found no place for me to fit. Seem like all I do is start over. It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself.

  August Wilson

  Starting Over, World, Fit

  August Wilson (1988). “Joe Turner's Come and Gone”

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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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• 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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