Finding Yourself Quotes - Page 8

• Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Discovery, Self

  Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

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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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• You've got to appreciate what the worst is. You don't want to find yourself in a situation where you're facing it.

  J. K. Rowling

  Appreciate, Want, Worst

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• As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve.

  Suzanne Collins

  Katniss, Long, Hunger

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.47, Scholastic Inc.

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• I admired Stalkers style. He was incredibly fast using two small blades strapped to the backs of his hands. Slash slash slash. Fighting him you wouldn’t die of one great wound but instead bleed out slowly surprised to find yourself weak and dying after a thousand cuts.

  Ann Aguirre

  Fighting, Cutting, Hands

  Ann Aguirre (2011). “Enclave”, p.194, Macmillan

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• You are wise as well as short." "I can also break bricks with my bare hands." "That's a handy skill if you ever find yourself walled up in the basement of an abandoned house by a psychopath.

  Nora Roberts

  Wise, Hands, Skills

  Nora Roberts (2012). “The Novels of Nora Roberts”, p.1079, Penguin

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• It bothered me that he was right. Without Sir Stuart's intervention, I'd have been dead again already. That's right--you heard me: dead again already. I mean, come on. How screwed up is your life (after- or otherwise) when you find yourself needing phrases like that?

  Jim Butcher

  Mean, Phrases, Heard

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• The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you are not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one. All the shortcuts and economies and common-sense changes that your native intelligence suggests to you are mistakes. Learn to quash them. Constantly ask yourself, "How would I do this if I were a fool?" Throttle down your mind to a crawl. Then you will never go wrong.

  Herman Wouk

  Mistake, Common Sense, Mind

  "Herman Wouk to publish first memoir aged 100" by Claire Armitstead, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2015.

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• You need to find yourself a new hero." - Skulduggery Pleasant.

  Derek Landy

  Hero, Needs, Skulduggery Pleasant

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• They'll be granted immunity!" I feel myself rising from my chair, my voice full of resonant. "You will personally pledge this in front of the entire population of District Thirteen and the remainder of Twelve. Soon. Today. It will be recorded for future generations. You will hold yourself and your government responsible for their safety, or you'll find yourself another Mockingjay!

  Suzanne Collins

  Government, Voice, Safety

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• And then one day when you're playing your little game you'll suddenly find yourself pinned down like a butterfly.

  Ian Fleming

  Butterfly, Games, One Day

  IAN FLEMING (1954). “LIVE AND LET DIE”

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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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• So you find yourself surrounded by death and horror in the world, and you escape it into lust. But lust has no duration; it leaves you again in the desert.

  Hermann Hesse

  Lust, Desert, World

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Narcissus and Goldmund: A Novel”, p.270, Macmillan

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• Do not first announce action, and then, when you are unable to take action, withdraw, because you will only find yourself in the same position as now, plus a public and humiliating confession of impotence.

  Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

  Politics, Firsts, Action

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• Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Healing, Tea, Cups

  "The Toys of Peace and Other Papers".

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• When you find yourself in bed with an ugly woman, the best thing to do is close your eyes and get on with it

  George R. R. Martin

  Eye, Bed, Ugly

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.302, Bantam

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• Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.

  James A. Baldwin

  Inspirational, Life, War

  "Breaking Into James Baldwin's House" by Thomas Chatterton Williams, www.newyorker.com. October 28, 2015.

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• Whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard; you will probably find, on examination, that your belief is going beyond what the evidence warrants.

  Bertrand Russell

  Differences, Examination, Belief

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.99, Routledge

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• The rules of the track work well for life. Roller derby is life in a tiny circle. You can only go forward, even if you find yourself turned around, facing the wrong way. There's speed, unpredictability, and danger. You can't be sure what's going to happen, you don't always know when you'll stop, and it appears most people are out to get you. You will fall. You will get hurt. But you will get up again.

  Pamela Ribon

  Hurt, Fall, Circles

  Pamela Ribon (2010). “Going in Circles”, p.309, Simon and Schuster

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• If you choose to get off the beaten path here, you'll find yourself in a situation where everything looks the same.

  Joe Teti

  Off The Beaten Path, Survival, Looks

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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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• Once in a while you find yourself in an odd situation. You get into it by degrees and in the most natural way but, when you are right in the midst of it, you are suddenly astonished and ask yourself how in the world it all came about.

  Thor Heyerdahl

  Inspirational, Funny, Degrees

  1948 The Kon- Tiki Expedition: By Raft across the South Seas (translated by F H Lyon).

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• One was a book I read by Mahatma Gandhi. In it was a passage where he said that religion, the pursuing of the inner journey, should not be separated from the pursuing of the outer and social journey, because we are not isolated beings.

  Satish Kumar

  Book, Journey, Social

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• Some memories remain close; you can shut your eyes and find yourself back in them. But there are second-person memories, too, distant you memories, and these are trickier: you watch yourself in disbelief.

  Jess Walter

  Memories, Eye, Watches

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• What you discover on your own is always more exciting than what someone else discovers for you - it's like the marriage between romantic love and an arranged marriage.

  Terrence Rafferty

  Knowledge, Romantic Love, Discovering Your True Self

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