Finding Yourself Quotes - Page 24

• No matter what your spiritual condition is, no matter where you find yourself in the universe, your choice is always the same: to expand your awareness or contract it.

  Thaddeus Golas

  Spiritual, Choices, Matter

  Thaddeus Golas (2002). “The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment”, p.58, Gibbs Smith

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• But don’t forget that memory is like salt: the right amount brings out
  the flavour in food, too much ruins it. If you live in the past all the
  time, you’ll find yourself with no present to remember.

  Paulo Coelho

  Memories, Past, Too Much

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• As you pray for forgiveness, you will find yourself forgiving others. As you thank God for His kindness, you will think of others, by name, who need your kindness. Again, that experience will surprise you every day, and over time it will change you.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Kindness, Thinking, Names

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• Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Helping Others, Understanding, Enemy

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• If every moment is sacred and if you are amazed and in awe most of the time when you find yourself breathing and not crazy, then you are in a state of constant thankfulness, worship and humility.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Crazy, Humility, Breathing

  "The Songs Are Free". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. February 6, 1991.

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• I know that relationships can be a winding, sometimes unpredictable road... it just seems to me that, if you ever find yourself backed into a corner, and the only way out is a box, that you have sex in, on stage, on live TV... something has gone terribly wrong.

  Matt Walsh

  Sex, Gone, Way

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• Navigate by the same star, unwilling to change, and you find yourself not only off-course but lost.

  Richard Bach

  Change, Stars, Lost

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• It's one thing to make peace with the idea of something that's going to happen someday; it's another to find yourself at that day.

  Lee Unkrich

  Ideas, Someday, Making Peace

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• When you find yourself in the thickness of pursuing a goal or dream, stop only to rest. Momentum builds success.

  Suzy Kassem

  Dream, Goal, Momentum

  "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.

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• If you find yourself ruminating over a hurt and are not ready to forgive, shift to gratitude. Think about all that is good in your life and all that you appreciate.

  Stephen G. Post

  Gratitude, Hurt, Thinking

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• With vampires, there is such a great tradition that you suddenly find yourself a part of. Each generation reinvents what that means to them.

  Michael Sheen

  Mean, Vampire, Generations

  Source: collider.com

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• You never find yourself involved in a single action story. Your family is always being with you. And you cannot separate whatever is going on in your life with your relationship with your son, with your wife.

  Jose Padilha

  Son, Wife, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm not trying to be ridiculous or funny, but it was rather pleasant to find yourself in isolation, in solitary.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Trying, Ridiculous, Isolation

  "Joseph Brodsky's Art of Darkness". www.washingtonpost.com. October 23, 1987.

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• What we were trying very hard to do, just in the way we shot it, was to make it feel as if we're in that environment ourselves, just so we can get a grasp on what it is. A lot of our influence was about getting stuck on a level on any of those video games, where you find yourself caught and you can't get out, and it's maddening. We talked a lot about that.

  Remi Aubuchon

  Games, Trying, Video

  "Executive Producer Remi Aubuchon Exclusive Interview PERSONS UNKNOWN". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 5, 2010.

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• I've been acting since I was 10. At age 14, 15 and 16 it's difficult to find roles and to find yourself even and when everyone's eyes are on you, it's difficult.

  Moises Arias

  Eye, Age, Acting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You ever find yourself being lazy for no reason at all? Like, you pick up your mail, you go in your house, you realize you have a letter for a neighbor. You ever just look at the letter and go "Hm. Looks like they're never getting this. It'll take too much energy to go back outside. I'm gonna get that to them later on. Right now I gotta watch some 'Love Connection.' They got some new host on there."

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Humor, House

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• The best advice I have is keep writing, keep practicing, keep winning, losing and understanding the difference. Never stop learning, never stop pushing yourself. Then find yourself a team you can work well with and help make awesome things happen.

  Rhianna Pratchett

  Team, Writing, Winning

  Source: www.dualshockers.com

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• The next time you find yourself in an argument, rather than defend your position, see if you can see the other point of view first.

  Richard Carlson

  Funny, Witty, Stress

  Richard Carlson (1998). “The Don't Sweat the Small Stuff Workbook: Exercises, Questions, and Self-Tests to Help You Keep the Little Things From Taking Over Your Life”, Hyperion

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• As an athlete, when you least expect it, you may find yourself standing on the threshold of an accomplishment so monumental that it strikes fear into your soul. You must stand ready, at any moment, to face the unknown. You must be ready to walk boldly thru the wall of uncertainty.

  John Bingham

  Wall, Athlete, Accomplishment

  John Bingham (1999). “The Courage To Start: A Guide To Running for Your Life”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• If you find yourself getting nervous stop and relax for three full breaths. Then take one small step, then another. That is how people get to the top of Everest.

  Martha Beck

  People, Relax, Small Steps

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• The moment you have kids, you are prey to judgment, but you also become a judge. You find yourself going, "Can you believe what she did with such-and-such?" at school.

  Sam Mendes

  Believe, School, Kids

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. June 2, 2009.

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• Certain songs have a life, and certain songs don't. A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it's the right kind of song you can sing it for the rest of your life. And then other songs are only really important for certain periods of your life, and you move on from them and find yourself not necessarily needing to sing them anymore.

  Glen Hansard

  Song, Moving, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I feel that in all kids that I've came across, that at the age of 12-13 is a big transition . They begin forming the Young Adult there going to become, here molding . I can't put a "name" on it but it's something. Your trying to find yourself, were getting ready to go to High School and as this world teaches you, you must "belong" to something. (So we Belong to Something)

  Richard Cabral

  School, Kids, Names

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The next time you find yourself in some way trying desperately to land safely, your compassion might be what finally gives you the courage you need to let go of the controls. In doing so, you might discover that each time you let go, it becomes easier and easier to re-enter the atmosphere of your own aliveness. Gradually you’ll come home to the flow of your own living presence, the warmth and space of your awakening heart.

  Tara Brach

  Letting Go, Home, Heart

  "Taking Your Hands Off the Controls". Article by Tara Brach, www.tarabrach.com. April 3, 2015.

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• Advice ... is a habit-forming drug. You give a dear friend a bit of advice today, and next week you find yourself advising two or three friends, and the week after, a dozen, and the week following, crowds!

  Carolyn Wells

  Next Week, Two, Giving

  Carolyn Wells (1937). “The Rest of My Life”

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