Finding Yourself Quotes - Page 6

• When you find yourself with the Beloved, embracing for
  one breath, in that moment you will find your true destiny.
  Alas, don't spoil this precious moment.
  Moments like this are very, very rare.

  Rumi

  Destiny, Beloved, Moments

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• Live for today, but hold your hands open to tomorrow. Anticipate the future and its changes with joy. There is a seed of God's love in every event, every unpleasant situation in which you may find yourself.

  Barbara Johnson

  Love, Change, God

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.123, Zondervan

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• No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.

  Epictetus

  Life, Matter, Distinguished

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• Continually one faces the horrible matter of making decisions. The solution is, as far as possible, to avoid conscious rational decisions and choices; simply to do what you find yourself doing; to float in the great current of life with as little friction as possible; to allow things to settle themselves, as indeed they do with the most infallible certainty.

  Christopher Morley

  Decision, Choices, Littles

  CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1923). “INWARD HO!”

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  It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Moving On, Growing Up, Memories

  Nicholas Sparks (2013). “True Believer”, p.75, Hachette UK

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• Reflecting back on your life is not only food for thought, but a Wiseman's bridge looking at how and why, you made your path for today! Will be most important, when you find yourself at the crossroads of tomorrow. Remember the goals you set yourself, travel the path closest to your heart. Trust your heart, your instincts, your soul.

  Ron Bennington

  Inspirational, Heart, Bridges

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• I remember in the '80s, Randy Travis was my guy. He's the reason I moved to Nashville, and I just loved him. But at some point when he was winning everything, you find yourself pulling for other people.

  Garth Brooks

  Winning, Nashville, People

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• A writer is dreamed and transfigured into being by spells, wishes, goldfish, silhouettes of trees, boxes of fairy tales dropped in the mud, uncles' and cousins' books, tablets and capsules and powders...and then one day you find yourself leaning here, writing on that round glass table salvaged from the Park View Pharmacy--writing this, an impossibility, a summary of who you came to be where you are now, and where, God knows, is that?

  Cynthia Ozick

  Cousin, Uncles, Book

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• Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What you do with what you see is your choice.

  Ted Dekker

  Mirrors, Choices, Looks

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• You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today.

  Guy Finley

  Inspirational, Today, Destination

  Guy Finley (1994). “Freedom From the Ties That Bind: The Secret of Self Liberation”, p.13, BookBaby

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• Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On occasions you can find yourself on a film set where the person who is wearing the director's hat is only trying to justify his position.

  Gary Oldman

  Knowing, Trying, Directors

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• I am certainly more interested in interviewing than being interviewed. Sometimes you find yourself attacked from the start.

  Michael Palin

  Sometimes

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

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• I grew up hearing over and over, to the point of tedium, that "hard work" was the secret of success: "Work hard and you'll get ahead" or "It's hard work that got us where we are." No one ever said that you could work hard - harder even than you ever thought possible - and still find yourself sinking ever deeper into poverty and debt.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Hard Work, Secret, Debt

  "Nickel and Dimed". Book by Barbara Ehrenreich, progressive.org. January 1, 2010.

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• But what if it were you? What if you were stuffed in a human body and let loose on this planet only to find yourself lost among your own kind? What if you were such a good person that you tried to save the life that you'd taken that you almost died trying to get her back to her family? What if you then found yourself surrounded by violent aliens who hated you and tried to hurt you and tried to murder you over and over again? What if you just kept doing whatever you could to save and heal people despite that? Wouldn't you deserve a life too? Wouldn't you have earned that much?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Hurt, Taken, People

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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. So I think it has more to do with that, a person's individual will to be master or servant. I've been both in my own life and I prefer the former.

  Greg Dulli

  Thinking, Tenacity, Individual

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are... ...We must always take risks. That is our destiny.

  T. S. Eliot

  Destiny, Risk, Cocktail Parties

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• We all know what fun it can be to get right into a book and live there for a while, but falling out of a story and suddenly finding yourself in this world doesn't seem to be much fun at all.

  Cornelia Funke

  Fun, Book, Fall

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.145, Scholastic Inc.

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• Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.

  Zhuangzi

  Spiritual, Inspirational Life, Struggle

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• You can, in short, lead the life of the mind, which is, despite some appalling frustrations, the happiest life on earth. And one day, in the thick of this, approaching some partial vision, you will (I swear) find yourself on the receiving end of - of all things - an "idea for a story," and you will, God save you, start thinking about writing some fiction of your own. Then you will understand, in what I fancy might be a blinding flash, that all this passionate thinking is what fiction is about, that all those other fiction writers started as you did, and are laborers in the same vineyard.

  Annie Dillard

  Writing, Frustration, Thinking

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• But you ain't part of it, are you?" said Granny conversationally. "You try, but you always find yourself watchin' yourself watchin' people, eh? Never quite believin' anything? Thinkin' the wrong thoughts?

  Terry Pratchett

  People, Trying, Said

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• A SMALL PIECE OF TRUTH I do not carry a sickle or scythe. I only wear a hooded black robe when it's cold. And I don't have those skull-like facial features you seem to enjoy pinning on me from a distance. You want to know what I truly look like? I'll help you out. Find yourself a mirror while I continue.

  Markus Zusak

  Distance, Skulls, Mirrors

  Markus Zusak (2016). “The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.225, Random House

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• Miles and years become suddenly invisible when you find yourself back where you started from, as if you've learned nothing and you are once again the person you once were.

  Karen White

  Years, Invisible, Miles

  Karen White (2007). “Learning to Breathe”, p.271, Penguin

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• There's a point where you find yourself tiptoeing as an artist, and then you know that you're in the wrong place.

  Bono

  Artist, Knows

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• There is no reason why you should be bored when you can be otherwise. But if you find yourself sitting in the hedgerow with nothing but weeds, there is no reason for shutting your eyes and seeing nothing, instead of finding what beauty you may in the weeds. To put it cynically, life is too short to waste it in drawing blanks. Therefore, it is up to you to find as many pictures to put on your blank pages as possible.

  Emily Post

  Weed, Life Is Too Short, Eye

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.54, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If at large gatherings or parties, or around people with whom you feel distant, your hands sometimes hang awkwardly at the ends of your arms - i you find yourself at a loss for what do with them, overcome with sadness that comes when you recognize the foreignnes of your own body - it's because your hands remember a time when the division between mind and body, brain and heart, what's inside and what's outside, was so much less.

  Nicole Krauss

  Party, Heart, Sadness

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