Finding Yourself Quotes - Page 19

• 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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• In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.

  Robert Breault

  Ends, Knows, Who You Are

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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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• When you surrender completely to God, as the only truth worth having, you find yourself in service of all that exists. It becomes your joy and recreation. You never tire of serving others.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Joy, Serving Others, Tire

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• If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Mazes, Way, Endless

  Maharshi Ramana, Swami Saraswati Ramananda (1963). “Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi”

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

  Hamza Yusuf

  Guarantees, Quran

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• Louis Pasteur said, 'Chance favors the prepared mind.' If you're really engaged in the writing, you'll work yourself out of whatever jam you find yourself in.

  Michael Chabon

  Writing, Mind, Jam

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• Ask yourself, 'How did God bless me today?' If you do that long enough and with faith, you will find yourself remembering blessings.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Blessing, Long, Today

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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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• 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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• 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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• When contemplating the pursuit of a dream or the start of a new venture, too many people are hesitant to begin because they can't comprehend the entire journey. If that's where you find yourself right now, don't expect to understand what it takes to get to the top. Just take the next step. There's no shame in starting small; in fact, if you don't start small, you'll probably never start at all.

  John C. Maxwell

  Dream, Journey, New Ventures

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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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• 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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• The first rule of life is to reveal nothing, to be exceptionally cautious in what you say, in whatever company you may find yourself. If you have a secret, you have only to whisper it to your dearest friend with the strictest injunction that it will go no further, and within half a day the story is all over town, and when you do make what would seem to be a perfectly sensible remark, you will find it reported in the most grotesque form, thus incurring no end of criticism to rebound upon you.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Secret, Criticism, Stories

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• It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself-to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed and then to find yourself still in bed.

  C. S. Lewis

  Dream, Spiritual, Appreciation

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Yours, Jack: The Inspirational Letters of C. S. Lewis”, p.16, HarperCollins UK

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• 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

  Signatures, May, Prison

  Bronislaw Malinowski (2001). “Coral Gardens and Their Magic: A Study of the Methods of Tilling the Soil and of Agricultural Rites in the Trobriand Islands. The language of magic and gardening. II”, p.53, Psychology Press

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• When you find yourself alone, or in a transition, you dream more. These are also the times when you read books.

  Anne Enright

  Dream, Book, Transition

  Interview with Conan Putnam, www.believermag.com. January, 2014.

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• Out upon merry Christmas! What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer...? If I could work my will," said Scrooge indignantly, "every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' upon his lips should be boiled with his won pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Christmas, Heart

  "A Christmas Carol". Book by Charles Dickens, 1843.

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• I was a serious comic collector and fanboy as a kid. I wanted very badly to draw comic books for a lot of my childhood and early adolescence. So when you have an unfulfilled dream like that, when years later you find yourself in a position to make a graphic novel - hell yeah, I'm going to do that.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Dream, Book, Kids

  "Anthony Bourdain swears he's a nerdy fanboy". Interview with Aaron Sagers, geekout.blogs.cnn.com. June 28, 2012.

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