Finding Yourself Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• The so-called new Russian man is characterized mainly by his complete exhaustion. You may find yourself wondering if he has the strength to enjoy his new-found freedom. He is like a long-distance runner who, on reaching the finishing line, is incapable even of raising his hands in a gesture of victory.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Distance, Men, Hands

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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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• Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves...At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Heart, Trying, Needs

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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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• I believe such illumination comes if you're open to the surprises the universe throws at you. You must be able to let go of the past, whatever success you may have seen, whatever your comfort, whatever your habits. To me, that's the key to loving life: Enabling yourself to step bravely into the unknown. Only there will you find yourself again.

  Juliette Binoche

  Letting Go, Believe, Past

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• I think life goes through a cycle of losing and refinding yourself all the time. Everyone has disappointments all the time, some of them pretty small, some of them pretty big.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Disappointment, Thinking, Losing

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• It's like being in the middle of a tornado. It's like, whooooooosh, you know what I'm saying? It's like Dorothy-you wake up and find yourself in the land of Oz.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Land, Wake Up, Tornadoes

  "What does it feel like to be Jennifer Lopez?" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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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 must be able to handle a variety of move orders during the first 5-6 moves - otherwise you'll find yourself 'tricked' time and time again.

  Edmar Mednis

  Moving, Order, Chess

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• If you lack the iron and the fizz to take control of your own life, then the gods will repay your weakness by having a grin or two at your expense. Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.

  Tom Robbins

  Iron, Two, Ships

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.103, Bantam

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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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• When you write, you lay out a line of words.
  Soon you find yourself deep in new territory.

  Annie Dillard

  Writing, Lines, Territory

  Annie Dillard (2009). “The Writing Life”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• Indeed, there is a moment on the first CD - the electrifying opening to "I Got Loaded," which sounds like an R&B standard but isn't - when you might find yourself asking whether anyone who has ever been smitten by pop music can fail to have his heart stopped by the chords, the swing, and, once again, Steve Berlin's wonderfully greasy sax.

  Nick Hornby

  Heart, Swings, Cds

  Nick Hornby (2003). “Songbook”, p.186, Penguin

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• Forgetting your Self is the greatest injury; all the calamities flow from it. Take care of the most important, the lesser will take care of itself. You do not tidy up a dark room. You open the windows first. Letting in the light makes everything easy. So, let us wait with improving others until we see ourselves as we are/ and have changed. There is no need to turn round and round in endless questioning; find yourself and everything will fall into its proper place.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Fall, Dark, Light

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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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• 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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• 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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