Finding Yourself Quotes - Page 25

• Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.

  Andre Breton

  Fate, Trying, Steps

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• You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.

  Lydia M. Child

  Inspirational, Encouraging, People

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• If you're a person who says yes most of the time, you'll find yourself in the hotel business and the restaurant business.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Restaurants, Hotel, Restaurant Business

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• When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.

  C. S. Lewis

  Turns, Ifs, Dislike

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• When you find yourself about to say something that crosses a line, something that could cause irreparable harm, sometimes the best you can do is just not say that thing.

  Tammara Webber

  Irreparable Harm, Lines, Causes

  Tammara Webber (2014). “Between the Lines: The Complete Series”, p.491, Tammara Webber

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• If you cannot find yourself on the page very early in life, you will go looking for yourself in all the wrong places.

  Richard Peck

  Pages, Ifs

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• How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living.

  Annie Dillard

  Motivational, Hands, Order

  "The Writing Life". Book by Annie Dillard, 1989.

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• Forget the self and you will fear nothing, in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Fear, Self, Levels

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• The truth is that, no matter what kind of game you find yourself in, no matter how good or bad the luck, you can change your life completely with a single thought or a single act of love

  Gregory David Roberts

  Games, Luck, Matter

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• Republicans are suggesting that you take your retirement money and invest it in the stock market to take care of yourself but that leaves you with choices that you may not know anything about. The purpose of social Security is that you don't fall through the crack and find yourself destitute.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Retirement, Fall, Choices

  Source: ciudadweston.com

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• And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden, You will find yourself a partner in the Glory of the Garden.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Cheer

  Rudyard Kipling, David Arscott (2007). “A Sussex Kipling”, p.85, Pomegranate Press

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• In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself. It will be a permanent Self, rooted in awareness and creativity. Once you have captured this, you have captured the world.

  Deepak Chopra

  Letting Go, Creativity, Past

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• This is what you do on your very first day in Paris. You get yourself, not a drizzle, but some honest-to-goodness rain, and you find yourself someone really nice and drive her through the Bois de Boulogne in a taxi. The rain's very important. That's when Paris smells its sweetest. It's the damp chestnut trees.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Nice, Rain, Paris

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• What I really like about Cuba is that you can go into a local bar in a provincial town and you'll get jazz played at the highest standard - played often a cappella, or certainly with no amplification or whatever. Even if you are not knowledgeable about music, and I am not, you can find yourself really enjoying it.

  John Gimlette

  Cuba, Bars, Amplification

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• The dream in your heart may be bigger than the environment in which you find yourself. Sometimes you have to get out of that environment to see that dream fulfilled. It’s like planting an oak sapling in a pot. Once it becomes rootbound, its growth is limited. It needs a great space to become a mighty oak. So do you.

  Darren Hardy

  Dream, Heart, Space

  "The Compound Effect". Book by Darren Hardy, 2011.

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• If you haven’t already clearly defined your values, you may find yourself making choices that conflict with what you want. If, for example, honesty is a big thing for you, but you hang out with liars, there’s a conflict. When your actions conflict with your values, you’ll end up unhappy, frustrated, and despondent. In fact, psychologists tell us that nothing creates more stress than when our actions and behaviors aren’t congruent with our values.

  Darren Hardy

  Honesty, Liars, Stress

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• Late at night, when everyone is quiet, sit alone and gaze into the mind; then you notice illusion ending and reality appearing. You gain a great sense of potential in this every time. Once you have noticed reality appearing yet find that illusion is hard to escape, you also find yourself greatly humbled.

  Zicheng Hong

  Night, Reality, Mind

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• When you find yourself in a new situation, everything that requires healing is going to rush to the surface.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Healing, Surface, Situation

  "Iyanla And Oprah Reflect On Their Rift And Lessons Learned In Challenging Times", www.huffingtonpost.com. July 24, 2013.

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• The Christian life is not about finding safety and comfort; it’s about finding yourself in a dangerous place of vulnerable compassion.

  Ed Stetzer

  Christian, Compassion, Safety

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• Never assume people's motives. It's the easiest way to find yourself upset over nothing or misjudging people

  LeCrae

  People, Upset, Way

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• Remember that everyone you see and every situation you find yourself in has come from inside of you; you have created your reality by how you have treated others in your past.

  Sharon Gannon

  Past, Reality, Remember

  "Chanting Compassion with David Life & Sharon Gannon". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• As you take steps to expand your awareness, you will naturally find yourself harnessing your mind's infinite power to create greater health, happiness, and love in your life.

  Deepak Chopra

  Mind, Happiness And Love, Steps

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• If you find yourself under lethal attack don't be kind. Be harsh. Be tough. Be ruthless.

  Jeff Cooper

  Be Kind, Tough, Self Defense

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.45, Paladin Press

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• In tonglen practice, when we see or feel suffering, we  breathe in with the notion of completely feeling it, accepting it, and owning it. Then we breathe out, radiating compassion, lovingkindness, freshness - anything that encourages relaxation and openness.  So you're training in softening, rather than tightening, your heart. In this practice, it's not uncommon to find yourself blocked, because you come face to face with your own fear, resistance, or whatever your personal "stuckness" happens to be at that moment.

  Pema Chodron

  Heart, Compassion, Practice

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• You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things.

  Carl Jung

  Simple, Forgotten Things, Quests

  Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.6, North Atlantic Books

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