Finding Yourself Quotes - Page 27

• Find yourself by losing yourself for others.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Losing, Losing Yourself

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• I mostly want to remind her of the recipes of healing, and give her my own made-on-the spot remedy for the easing of her pain. I tell her, “Get a pen. Stop crying so you can write this down and start working on it tonight.” My remedy is long. But the last item on the list says: “When you wake up and find yourself living someplace where there is nobody you love and trust, no community, it is time to leave town – to pack up and go (you can even go tonight). And where you need to go is any place where there are arms that can hold you, that will not let you go.

  Bell Hooks

  Pain, Writing, Healing

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• The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you can find yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things rotten through and through, to avoid.

  Livy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Wisdom

  Livy, Lello Scorzelli (1972). “The History of Early Rome”

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• 50 years: here's a time when you have to separate yourself from what other people expect of you, and do what you love. Because if you find yourself 50 years old and you aren't doing what you love, then what's the point?

  Jim Carrey

  Birthday, Love Is, Years

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• There's an idea that it's hard to be a woman artist. People assume that women have fewer opportunities, less power. But it's not any harder to be a woman artist than to be a male artist. We all take what we are given and use the parts of ourselves that feed the work. We make our way. Photographers, men and women, are particularly lucky. Photography lets you find yourself. It is a passport to people and places and to possibilities.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Photography, Artist, Opportunity

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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 in order to see your dream fulfilled.

  Joel Osteen

  Dream, Heart, Order

  Joel Osteen (2012). “Daily Readings from Become a Better You: 90 Devotions for Improving Your Life Every Day”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• If you don't make a conscious effort to control your focus-and decide in advance which things you're going to focus on-you'll be so pulled by the demands of the world that you will soon find yourself living in reaction rather than living a life plan you've designed for yourself.

  Tony Robbins

  Focus, Effort, World

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• When you find yourself ready to complain about what you don't have, stop for a moment to consider what incredible things you do have. And resolve to make the most of it all.

  Ralph Marston

  Perspective, Complaining, Incredibles

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• It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before.

  Bill Bryson

  World, Angle, Wells

  Bill Bryson (2010). “At Home: A Short History of Private Life”, p.17, Random House

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• The first great thing is to find yourself and for that you need solitude and contemplation - at least sometimes. I can tell you deliverance will not come from the rushing noisy centers of civilization. It will come from the lonely places.

  Fridtjof Nansen

  Lonely, Civilization, Rushing

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• Pilgrimage means being alert to the times when all that's needed is a trip to a remote place to simply lose yourself, and to the times when what's needed is a journey to a sacred place, in all its glorious and fearsome masks, to find yourself.

  Phil Cousineau

  Mean, Journey, Sacred

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• When you’re reminded that God owes you nothing you find yourself more grateful and less entitled.

  LeCrae

  Grateful, Entitled

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• Knowing you are one with all, you find yourself in love with all.

  Timothy Freke

  Knowing

  Timothy Freke, Peter Gandy (2005). “The Laughing Jesus: Religious Lies and Gnostic Wisdom”, p.204, Harmony

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• If you were to take the lessons and experiences you've acquired in the past one year, five years or 10 years and skillfully invest that into your future, how powerful would that be? Where would you find yourself at the end of the next year?

  Jim Rohn

  Powerful, Past, Years

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• Time has a funny way of collapsing when you go back to a place you once loved. You find yourself thinking, I was kissed in that building, I climbed up that tree.

  Ann Patchett

  Thinking, Tree, Way

  Ann Patchett (2009). “What Now?”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• Acting requires a lot of discipline to go with the obsession. It's a path of knowledge, and of self-knowledge. Sometimes you get lost on the path. And then you find yourself again.

  Toni Servillo

  Self, Discipline, Acting

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• You may study with the highest teachers, but you will find no one but yourself teaching you. You may travel the world over, yet find nothing but yourself, reflected the world over. So if you now find yourself in a cell, take heart that of all the teachers in the world, out of all the places in the world, you still have with you the only ultimate ingredient of your journey: yourself.

  Bo Lozoff

  Teacher, Teaching, Heart

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• Here is good news to those to whom enthusiasm does not come naturally: It can be cultivated. At first, you must consciously put your eyes, your voice, your spirit-in a word, yourself-into your appreciation of people and events and things. Do this around your home, at your work, and in your social contacts, and you will be surprised at how quickly it will become second nature. You will find yourself living in a more gracious and enthusiastic world, for your enthusiasm will be reflected back to you from the people to whom you give it.

  David Dunn

  Appreciation, Home, Eye

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• If you want a referendum, vote for the others. Or, in certain cases, you can stay at home, you don't vote and you could find yourself with a referendum by default because you didn't exercise your vote.

  Jean Charest

  Home, Exercise, Want

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• You suddenly find yourself somewhere and you wonder, how did I get in this room? That happens to me all the time, every day!

  Shirley Henderson

  Rooms, Wonder, Happens

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

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• My rule is: the second you find yourself doing something you hate, quit doing it.

  Maureen Johnson

  Hate, Quitting

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• Jump up, look around, find yourself some fun. No sense in sitting there hating everyone.

  Jethro Tull

  Fun, Hate, Philosophy

  Song: Teacher, Album: Benefit, 1970

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• Will you gather daydreams or will you gather wealth? How can you find your fortune when you cannot find yourself?

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Philosophy, Wealth, Daydreaming

  Song: Sit Down Young Stranger

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• So remember, if you're feeling bitter - or sorry for yourself about what you've done, and how much good you've accomplished - or if you find yourself more than anyone else talking about the good you've done, you're doing it for the wrong reasons, because it should be the default.

  Ysabella Brave

  Sorry, Talking, Feelings

  YouTube Channel "Ysabella Brave"/"Doing Good - for the right reasons!", www.youtube.com. March 13, 2008.

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• If you think a certain thought long enough and hard enough, it becomes a fixed belief and you will find yourself behaving on the outside in a manner consistent with it.

  Brian Tracy

  Thinking, Long, Belief

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