Finding Yourself Quotes - Page 20

• 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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• If you are in poor health, you can remedy it. If your personal relationships are unsatisfactory, you can change them for the better. If you are in poverty, you can find yourself surrounded by abundance... Each of you, regardless of position, status, circumstances, or physical condition, is in control or your own experience.

  Seth

  Poverty, Abundance, Poor

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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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• There is no way to find yourself until you discover how utterly to lose yourself.

  Rufus Jones

  Way, Losing Yourself, Quaker

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• You can make bad choices and find yourself in a downward spiral or you can find something that gets you out of it.

  Ray LaMontagne

  Choices, Spirals, Downward Spiral

  "Ray LaMontagne: Digging Deep And Doing What He Does" by Ellen Sterling, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 2, 2010.

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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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• All of my life had been spent in the shadow of apartheid. And when South Africa went through its extraordinary change in 1994, it was like having spent a lifetime in a boxing ring with an opponent and suddenly finding yourself in that boxing ring with nobody else and realising you've to take the gloves off and get out and reinvent yourself.

  Athol Fugard

  Boxing, Shadow, Opponents

  "I'm a storyteller, that's all" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2002.

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• I would encourage people to realize that you don't have to panic if you're not part of a mainstream, or if you find yourself outside the flow. If it doesn't suit you, don't go along with it. Just sit it out and get your stuff done. Don't just sit moaning or getting drunk—I spent some years doing that. But if you can just come up with something of your own, however minor it is, that's going to be easier to live with when you're at the end of your life.

  Robert Wyatt

  Years, Suits You, People

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 14, 2014.

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• Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid and wish you'd just stayed in bed?

  Ransom Riggs

  Climbing, Wish, Bed

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• Don’t allow circumstance to hold you back- even negative ones. You don’t have to let your circumstances define you. You can define yourself, and the best way to find yourself is through education.

  Mary Hatwood Futrell

  Negative, Way, Circumstances

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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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• Best results are often achieved well
  before you need a job, by consistently
  networking so that when you find yourself
  job-hunting you have a large network to work with.

  Erik Qualman

  Jobs, Hunting, Networking

  "Can social networking bring job hunters tweet success?" by Hilary Osborne, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• If you ever get twenty-five years for nothing, if you find yourself wearing four number patches on your clothes, holding your hands permanently behind your back, submitting to searches morning and evening, working until you are utterly exhausted, dragged into the cooler whenever someone denounces you, trodden deeper and deeper into the ground-from the hole you're in, the fine words of the great humanists will sound like the chatter of the well-fed and free.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Morning, Years, Clothes

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• Yoga is a metaphor for life. You have to take it really slowly. You can't rush. You can't skip to the next position. You find yourself in very humiliating situations, but you can't judge yourself. You just have to breathe, and let go. It is a workout for your mind, your body and your soul.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Letting Go, Workout, Yoga

  "Hot Celebrity Bodies Shaped by Yoga", www.foxnews.com. June 6, 2012.

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• Running is a very natural activity. If you get too caught up, you find yourself constantly seeking to make running something that it isn't. You should let it be what it is - a very simple activity. Running has become too complicated for many people and they wind up turning sour on the sport, or losing the focus of their direction.

  Bill Rodgers

  Sports, Running, Simple

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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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• 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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• Just two days in Manhattan and you find yourself looking for a place to wash your handkerchief after you wipe your forehead and it comes away black. Is there a dirtier or more fascinating city anywhere in the land? The answer to both parts of the question has to be positively negative.

  Herb Caen

  Land, Cities, Two

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• The microwave oven is one of the modern objects that convey the most elemental feeling of power over the passing seconds ... If you suffer from hurry sickness in its most advanced stages, you may find yourself punching 88 seconds instead of 90 because it is faster to tap the same digit twice.

  James Gleick

  Feelings, Suffering, May

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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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• Nature is the clearest source of solitude. The greatness of nature can overwhelm the insignificant chatter by which we measure most of our days. If you have the wisdom and the courage to go to nature alone, the larger rhythms, the eternal hum, will make itself known all the sooner. When you have found it, it will always be there for you. The peace without will become the peace within, and you will be able to return to it in your heart wherever you find yourself.

  Kent Nerburn

  Nature, Heart, Greatness

  Kent Nerburn (2010). “Simple Truths: Clear and Simple Guidance on the Big Issues in Life”, p.56, New World Library

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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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• Yeah, I think it motivates you as people start to count you out. It doesn't make you play any harder, because every time you go out on the field you give 110 percent, but it does give you more of an edge mentally, knowing that you were in the same situation, because in sports you always find yourself behind.

  Joe Montana

  Sports, Thinking, Play

  "Joe Montana discusses SF Giants, 49ers quarterback". Interview with Brian Murphy, Paul McCaffrey, www.sfgate.com. August 27, 2011.

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• As an actor, I don't really think you find yourself. I mean, once you find yourself, I think it becomes boring and you become set in your ways. I think, as an actor I think it's not a bad thing but more of a gift. It's something you're always doing as an actor. You're adjusting constantly.

  Justin Chon

  Mean, Thinking, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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