Finding Yourself Quotes - Page 28

• If you are expecting Paul to read the Bible like it was set in stone, you will find yourself getting pretty nervous. For Paul, now that Jesus has come, the Bible was more like clay to be molded.

  Peter Enns

  Jesus, Clay, Stones

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• Life is all about finding yourself through experiences, and about learning more and more about who you are and what you’re capable of. If you’re getting older and not succeeding in anything or doing anything to make a positive impact on people, then you’re not living. You’re just waiting for death. Get out there and make an impact on people, whether it’s by helping them directly or by doing research to make their lives better or just by inspiring them. Do something good to be remembered for. This is more important than money.

  Zak Bagans

  Impact, People, Waiting

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• When you find yourself dwelling on something negative, consciously use your willpower to remove your mind from that which is negative. Move your mind into the flow of something positive.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Buddhism, Dwelling

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• Committing yourself is a way of finding out who you are. A man finds his identity by identifying.

  Robert E. Terwilliger

  Life, Commitment, Identity

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• If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it.

  Alvin Ailey

  Racism, Racist, World

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• Building your "dream life" is filled with things that can feel like the opposite of a dream:
  Mistakes
  Delays
  Starting over
  Failure
  
  The building part is actually more of a rebuilding that is a continual process. The building is not linear in nature but far more interesting. You might start a creative dream, take the "next step", and find yourself completely bored, dissatisfied, or just not inspired.

  Sark

  Dream, Mistake, Opposites

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• One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Being Yourself, Law, Know Yourself

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• Dressing is a way of life. It brings you joy. It can give you freedom and liberation, help you to find yourself and to move without restraint. Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Moving, Giving, Joy

  Yves Saint Laurent (1983). “Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume”, p.24, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• In the end, we need two things to lead a balanced life - a sense of the world and a sense of ourselves; it's like breathing in and breathing out. And if you can only get to know the world by stepping out, and losing yourself in experience, you can only get to know the self by stepping back, and finding yourself in contemplation. One without the other leads to a kind of madness.

  Pico Iyer

  Motivational, Self, Breathing

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• Although we can't control which roles are assigned to us, it must be our business to act our given role as best we possibly can and to refrain from complaining about it. Where ever you find yourself and in whatever circumstances, give an impeccable performance.

  Epictetus

  Motivational, Giving, Complaining

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• You find yourself in this world, you find yourself out of this world and there's no one to find the Self. There's no Self to find.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Self, World

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• You can drive 1,000 miles across America and find yourself, whereas if you drive a few miles from Slough you're in London anyway, or you hit Wales and you're in another country! Also, wherever you are in England it's still raining.

  Ricky Gervais

  Country, Rain, America

  "Cemetery Junction - Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• When you get into an airplane by yourself and take off, you find yourself in this lovely, three-dimensional world where you can go in any direction. There is no feeling any more exciting than that.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Airplane, Feelings, Lovely

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• Funny, I'd forgotten that what comes to you when you take a psychedelic is not always a revelation of something new and startling; you're more liable to find yourself reminded of simple things you know and forgot you knew - seeing them freshly - old, basic truths that long ago became cliches, so you stopped paying attention to them.

  Ann Shulgin

  Simple, Long Ago, Attention

  Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin (1995). “Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story”

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• As you warm to the ideas expressed in Total Recall, you find yourself reaching for your digital camera to record the moment just gone by.

  Donna Dubinsky

  Ideas, Cameras, Gone

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• That’s the problem with fiction — or the charm, if you want. Even mediocre plots have a way of sinking their hooks into you, until you find yourself concerned for the fates of characters who aren’t even fully convincing.

  Charles McGrath

  Character, Fate, Plot

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• What you have to do is disavow yourself from any sense other than ascendancy. That's the only direction you could possibly have towards painting. There's no other direction at all. There's no other space in art. There's no other way in which you can find yourself except in somehow feeling it. And by holding to this feeling you can once again reach out and guess and miss - and sometimes hit.

  Milton Resnick

  Art, Space, Missing

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• Try this: say the words "global, global, global" aloud several times, as fast as you can. You'll find yourself sounding like a turkey ("gobble, gobble, gobble").

  Jim Stanford

  Turkeys, Trying

  "Economics For Everyone". Book by Jim Stanford, 2008.

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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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• My advice: Just keep movin' straight ahead. Every now and then you find yourself in a different place.

  George Carlin

  Persistence, Advice, Different

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• Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, and you'll only find yourself lost and dying of thirst.

  Caitlín R. Kiernan

  Art, Dying, Mirages

  Caitlín R. Kiernan's blog entry (greygirlbeast.livejournal.com), July 24, 2005.

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• Jump blind and you might find yourself on the rim of a raging volcano, or smack in the middle of a battlefield during a savage war, or on a swiftly tilting ice floe in a tempest-tossed sea.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  War, Volcanoes, Ice

  "The Skin Map". Book by Stephen R. Lawhead, 2010.

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• But know that to serve God is nothing else than to serve your neighbor and do good to him in love, be it a child, wife, servant, enemy, friend....If you do not find yourself among the needy and the poor, where the Gospel shows us Christ, then you may know that your faith is not right, and that you have not yet tasted of Christ's benevolence and work for you.

  Martin Luther

  Children, Love Is, Wife

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• Who you really are, your True Nature, is no more tied to the kind of person you've been than the wind is tied to the skies through which it moves.  Your past is just that, the past, a place within your psyche with no more reality to it than a picture of a castle on a postcard is made from stone.  You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today.

  Guy Finley

  Moving, Past, Reality

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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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