Finding Yourself Quotes - Page 16

• An order given in battle, an instruction issued by the master of a sailing ship, a cry for help, are as powerful in modifying the course of events as any other bodily act...You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison.

  Bronislaw Malinowski

  Powerful, Commitment, Order

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• Stealing ideas from contemporaries is rude and tasteless. Stealing from the long dead is considered literary and admirable. The same is true of grave-robbing. Loot your local cemetery and find yourself mired in social awkwardness. But unearth the tomb of an ancient king and you can feel free to pop off his toe rings. You'll probably end up on a book tour, or bagging an honorary degree or two.

  N.D. Wilson

  Kings, Book, Ideas

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• What gets frustrating for some people is the fact that you might get very high, but you find yourself pulled down again. There are forces of illusion or maya that cause us to make mistakes.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mistake, Ignorance, People

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• When you're young, you always feel that life hasn't yet begun—that "life" is always scheduled to begin next week, next month, next year, after the holidays—whenever. But then suddenly you're old and the scheduled life didn't arrive. You find yourself asking, 'Well then, exactly what was it I was having—that interlude—the scrambly madness—all that time I had before?

  Douglas Coupland

  Holiday, Next Week, Years

  Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• When you do things in a selfish way, let alone a destructive way, then you are bound by that karma. Your state of mind will go down. You will find yourself becoming depressed, nervous, anxious and upset.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Selfish, Upset

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• Do you ever find yourself bursting into a sort of lunatic laughter at the sheer prettiness of things?

  Beverley Nichols

  Laughter, Bursting, Lunatic

  Beverley Nichols (2009). “Rhapsody in Green: The Garden Wit and Wisdom of Beverley Nichols”, p.112, Timber Press

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• You've got to know yourself so you can at last be yourself.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Being Yourself, Discovery, Lasts

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Fantasia of the Unconcious: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.73, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You will find yourself in the Quran, I guarantee you.

  Hamza Yusuf

  Guarantees, Quran

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• Life's too short when you find yourself sitting in a car for four hours every day trying to get from East L.A. to West L.A. to Hollywood and then back to East L.A.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Car, Trying, Hollywood

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• You have to lose yourself to find yourself.

  Willem Dafoe

  Losing Yourself, Loses

  Interview with Jonathan Romney, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 1998.

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• In order to find yourself you need to get lost in the forest of life.

  Michael Dolan

  Order, Needs, Forests

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• You don't even realize you're living in a before until you wake up one day and find yourself in an after.

  Robin Wasserman

  One Day, Wake Up, Realizing

  Robin Wasserman (2012). “The Book of Blood and Shadow”, p.96, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• It is not possible that you could ever find yourself anywhere where God was not fully present, fully active, able and willing to set you free.

  Emmet Fox

  Able, Active, Willing

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• If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.

  Mo Willems

  Self, Leaving, Stories

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• No matter what challenging situation you may find yourself in, imagine the best outcome of it and feel it! When you do, you will change the circumstances, and you will change the situation into what you want!

  Rhonda Byrne

  Challenges, May, Want

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Power”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• If you ever find yourself tempted to seek out someone else's opinion on a trade, that's usually a sure sign that you should get out of your position.

  Linda Bradford Raschke

  Opinion, Should, Trade

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• An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it.

  Roger Ebert

  Philosophy, Book, Thinking

  Roger Ebert (2000). “I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie”, p.207, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• You could begin to notice whenever you find yourself blaming others or justifying yourself. If you spent the rest of your life just noticing that and letting it be a way to uncover the silliness of the human condition-the tragic yet comic drama that we all continually buy into-you could develop a lot of wisdom and a lot of kindness as well as a great sense of humor.

  Pema Chodron

  Kindness, Drama, Way

  Pema Chodron (1996). “Awakening Loving-Kindness”, p.78, Shambhala Publications

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• Upon graduation, go out into the world and try to find yourself. What do I mean by that? Read Socrates, no. Get a job? Not yet. Go out and do some crazy stuff. Don't hurt anybody including yourself, but take some risks. Travel a little bit. Make big mistakes that you have to apologize for. Do stuff that will make you relatable to the world. And whatever jobs you settle into, you will be better at it, for it.

  Megyn Kelly

  Hurt, Jobs, Crazy

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Finding joy is probably tantamount to finding yourself and being comfortable in your own skin.

  Morgan Freeman

  Joy, Skins, Findings

  "The Bucket List - Morgan Freeman interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful; the sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.

  Plotinus

  Beautiful, Cutting, Looks

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• Money is like any other language through which people communicate. People who speak the same language tend to find each other. If you are one whose money speaks of protection and hoarding, you will find yourself involved with others whose money speaks the same language. You will be staring at each other with hooded eyes and closed fists and suspicion will be your common value. If your money speaks of sharing, you will find yourself among people who want their money to speak the language of sharing, and your world will be filled with possibility.

  Kent Nerburn

  Money, Eye, People

  Kent Nerburn (2010). “Simple Truths: Clear and Simple Guidance on the Big Issues in Life”, p.33, New World Library

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• Often, as a young actress, you find yourself being the only girl in a room full of men... and one of the reasons why I like 'Grey's Anatomy' is because they have such strong female characters and the women really drive this show.

  Rachael Taylor

  Girl, Strong, Character

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When we look for success, it should be for the sole purpose of boasting sincerely in Christ. There's no other reason for it. Success is only worth it when the more intense it gets for you, the more you find yourself bragging for his glory rather than your own.

  Criss Jami

  Looks, Purpose, Bragging

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.49, Criss Jami

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• This hard place in which you perhaps find yourself is the very place in which God is giving you opportunity to look only to Him, to spend time in prayer, and to learn long-suffering, gentleness, meekness - in short, to learn the depths of the love that Christ Himself has poured out on all of us.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Prayer, Opportunity, Long

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