Finding Yourself Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• The world's worst is when you find yourself going like Mother Hubbard and cupping your hand behind your ear. I was a major glutton for volume: 'Gotta feel it, gotta hear it.' Sooner or later you're going to pay the reaper.

  Mick Fleetwood

  Mother, Hands, Ears

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• Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You find yourself insensibly twisting them round to fit your theories.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Errors, Data, Suits

  "Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories".

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

  Hamza Yusuf

  Guarantees, Quran

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• When you find yourself overpowered, as it were, by melancholy, the best way is to go out and do something.

  John Keble

  Way, Self Pity, Melancholy

  John Keble (1870). “Letters of Spiritual Counsel and Guidance”, p.6

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• The first time you find yourself having a conversation about moss stitch with a group of people who aren't desperately trying to escape you ... it's like coming home.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Home, Knitting, People

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.24, Storey Publishing

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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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• If you're being ignored, that's a good time to concentrate on finding yourself and creating your own mystery.

  Lykke Li

  Creating, Being Ignored, Good Times

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• Inspiration is that state in which mind and heart are connected. When you feel inspired you find yourself thrust into a world where ordinary objects and events are full of light, as if illuminated from within. This inner light is truth, and when you suddenly see the truth, we gain insight, clarity, and joy.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspiration, Heart, Light

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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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• I've always been the kind of person that doesn't like to trespass, but sometimes you just find yourself over the line.

  Bob Dylan

  Lines, Kind, Sometimes

  Song: Brownsville Girl, Album: Knocked Out Loaded

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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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• The world is the same you never change it, as sure as the stars shine above. Well, you're nobody til somebody loves you, so find yourself somebody to love.

  Dean Martin

  Stars, Love You, Advice

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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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• Knowledge without Spirit is like finding yourself on a cold night with all the wood in the world and no flame to ignite it.

  Guy Finley

  Inspirational, Night, Flames

  Guy Finley (2010). “The Essential Laws of Fearless Living (Large Print 16pt)”, p.23, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When you find yourself on a plateau, look for another level.

  Nido R Qubein

  Looks, Levels

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• Not just any talk is conversation; not any talk raises consciousness. Good conversation has an edge: it opens your eyes to something, quickens your ears. And good conversation reverberates: it keeps on talking in your mind later in the day; the next day, you find yourself still conversing with what was said. That reverberation afterward is the very raising of consciousness; your mind's been moved. You are at another level with your reflections.

  James Hillman

  Eye, Reflection, Talking

  James Hillman, Michael Ventura (1992). “We've had a hundred years of psychotherapy-- and the world's getting worse”, Harpercollins

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• Bureaucracies force us to practice nonsense. And if you rehearse nonsense, you may one day find yourself the victim of it.

  Laurence Gonzales

  Practice, One Day, May

  Laurence Gonzales (2009). “Everyday Survival: Why Smart People Do Stupid Things”, p.69, W. W. Norton & Company

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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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• Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone.

  Bruce Lee

  Loneliness, Cutting, Opportunity

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.101, Tuttle Publishing

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• Give your attention to the experience of seeing rather than to the object seen and you will find yourself everywhere.

  Rupert Spira

  Giving, Attention, Objects

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• The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

  Myles Munroe

  Discovery, Self, Life Is

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• The day you are happy for no reason whatsoever, the day you find yourself taking delight in everything and in nothing, you will know that you have found the land of unending joy called the kingdom.

  Anthony de Mello

  Land, Joy, Delight

  "The Way to Love: The Last Meditations of Anthony de Mello". Book by Anthony de Mello, 1995.

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• If you live with the myths in your mind, you will find yourself always in mythological situations. They cover everything that can happen to you. And that enables you to interpret the myth in relation to life, as well as life in relation to myth.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Mind, Enabling

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• In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different- life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself- a girl should be two things: who and what she wants.

  Coco Chanel

  Girl, Order, Two

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