Finding Yourself Quotes - Page 32

• If you find yourself running away from something and then suddenly you're isolated in a vacuum, then you have to deal with all the inherent truths and learning things about yourself and the people that are around you.

  John Gallagher, Jr.

  Running, People, Vacuums

  "10 Cloverfield Lane: John Gallagher Jr. talks John Goodman and monsters". Interview with Emma Thrower, www.empireonline.com. March 10, 2016.

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• I think you can find yourself in life perhaps not really being the master of your own life and it is within your own will and tenacity whether you switch the roles or not.

  Mark Lanegan

  Thinking, Roles, Tenacity

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It's one thing to want money, but if you find yourself choking on a coin as you wake, the money is slightly less desirable.

  Neil Gaiman

  Coins, Want, Choke

  "Uncharted Waters: Joe Hill Explores Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane". Interview With Robin A. Rothman, www.amazonbookreview.com. June 9, 2013.

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• I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Home, Thinking, Back Home

  "I Left Home to Find Home". Interview with Carl Wilkinson, www.theguardian.com. March 06, 2005.

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• People come, people go – they’ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their story and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones, not the ones from the past.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Life, Book, Adventure

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jan 04, 2017

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• How do you let go of attachment to things? Don’t even try. It’s impossible. Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Letting Go, Philosophical, Attachment

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.40, Penguin

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• Silence is something that comes from your heart, not from outside. Silence doesn't mean not talking and not doing things; it means that you are not disturbed inside. If you're truly silent, then no matter what situation you find yourself in you can enjoy the silence.

  Nhat Hanh

  Heart, Mean, Talking

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2009). “Answers from the Heart: Practical Responses to Life's Burning Questions”, p.39, Parallax Press

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• When you meet anyone, remember it is a holy encounter. As you see him, you will see yourself. As you treat him, you will treat yourself. As you think of him, you will think of yourself. Never forget this, for in him you will find yourself or lose yourself.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Thinking, Encounters

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Sep 14, 2013

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• You could ask yourself, 'How did God Bless me today?' If you do that long enough and with faith, you will find yourself remembering blessings. And sometimes you will have gifts brought to your mind which you failed to notice during the day, but which you will then know were a touch of God's hand in your life.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Life, Faith, Blessing

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  Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.

  Pablo Neruda

  Love, Someday, Hours

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• When you find yourself in a position to help someone, be happy because Allah is answering that person’s prayer through you.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Happy, Religious, Prayer

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• I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

  Douglas Adams

  Life, Positive, Travel

  Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.354, Simon and Schuster

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• Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Running, Discovery, Self

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• One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

  Blaise Pascal

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Discovery

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• This above all; to thine own self be true.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• A friend is a gift you give yourself.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Friendship, Holiday, Real Friends

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• I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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  I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Adventure, Dead Poets Society

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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• Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Men

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• In our imaginations we believe that love is apart from us. Actually there is nothing but love, once we are ready to accept it. When you truly find love, you find yourself

  Deepak Chopra

  Love, Motivational, Spiritual

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• There is no satisfaction that can compare with looking back across the years and finding you've grown in self-control, judgment, generosity, and unselfishness.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Self, Years, Generosity

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• Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.

  Carl Jung

  Becoming, Know Yourself, Know Thyself

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• Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore.

  Dorothy Bryant

  Life, Gold, Digging

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• The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.

  Julien Green

  Heart, Men, Discovery

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