Finding Myself Quotes

• My first album was me finding myself and my voice, finding how I sing. I was rolling with the punches because everything was new to me.

  Chris Brown

  Voice, Rolling, Albums

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  Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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• The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.

  Gore Vidal

  Finding The One, Car, Literature

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• Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

  Meryl Streep

  Inspirational, Motivational, Acting

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• I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.

  Mariah Carey

  Confidence, Who I Am, Proud

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• I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don't even know of what, because I have lost everything already.

  Veronica Roth

  Loneliness, Lost Everything, Tobias

  "Allegiant". Book by Veronica Roth, 2013.

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• I look out this window and think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and the birds and everything else and I am part of it. I didn't ask to be put here. I've been lucky finding myself here.

  Morris West

  Nature, Thinking, Bird

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• I must congratulate myself, in passing, for never having lost the ability to examine my conscience, never having lost the gift of finding myself wanting & defective. Why fear the criticism of others when you, yourself, are first out of the critical gate? If self-denigration is the race I am the winner, even before the starting gun. Collect the bets.

  Frank McCourt

  Gun, Race, Self

  Frank McCourt (2005). “Teacher Man: A Memoir”, p.318, Simon and Schuster

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• I used to be enamored of object-oriented programming. I'm now finding myself leaning toward believing that it is a plot designed to destroy joy.

  Eric Allman

  Believe, Joy, Plot

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• There's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Agreement, Abhorrent, World

  Malcolm Muggeridge, Ian Hunter (2003). “The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge”, p.223, Regent College Publishing

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• Finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Believe, World, Shapes

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1817). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.165

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• Since social relationships are always ambiguous, since my thought is only a unit, since my thoughts create rifts as much as they unite, since my words establish contacts by being spoken and create isolation by remaining unspoken, since an immense moat separates the subjective certitude that I have for myself from the objective reality that I represent to others, since I never stop finding myself guilty even though I feel I am innocent.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Reality, Moats, Rift

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• I'd been convinced I was on the outside, but really, I'd always been within arm's reach. All I had to do was ask, and I, too, would be easily brought back, surrounded and immersed, finding myself safe, somewhere in between.

  Sarah Dessen

  Safe, Arms, Would Be

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.353, Penguin

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• I’ve been wandering around all night—I couldn’t sleep—and I kept finding myself walking here. To you.

  Cassandra Clare

  Sleep, Night, Wandering Around

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1183, Simon and Schuster

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• But anyone can begin. It was the part with all the promise, the potential, the things I loved. More and more, though, I was finding myself wanting to find out what happened in the end.

  Sarah Dessen

  Promise, Ends, Findings

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.158, Penguin

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• I am not sure what lonliness is," she said. "If it is not literally being solitary, is it the fear of solitude, of being alone with oneself? I feel no such fear. I like being alone." "What do you fear then?" he asked her. She glanced briefly at him and smiled, a fragile expression that spoke for itself even before she found words. "Never finding myself again.

  Mary Balogh

  Like Being Alone, Expression, Solitude

  Mary Balogh (2006). “Simply Love”, p.57, Delacorte Press

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• Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who had been and still was very dear to me, I caught myself in the act of focusing on her temples and automatically analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death was imposing on her motionless face.

  Claude Monet

  Color, Long, Joy

  "Claude Monet: Les Nymphéas". Book by Georges Clemenceau, Ch. 2, 1926.

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• My favorite experiences have all been finding myself at one point in a timeline and going in both directions, just discovering at my own pace. If I could admit to be playing some kind of long game, and strategizing this, I would.

  Blake Mills

  Games, Long, Pace

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• In my mid 30's, after a decade or so of giving full time to the music thing and finding myself with about $10 in the bank and no assets other than my musical equipment, I realized I needed to get serious about making a living.

  Marc Edwards

  Giving, Musical, Serious

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• I guess there's just a part of me that's not very enthusiastic about finding myself ten years from now halfway through a story that may or may not be any good.

  Adrian Tomine

  Years, Stories, May

  Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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• Life is a journey, and I'm finding myself every day!

  Kim Richards

  Journey, Life Is, Findings

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• Finding myself a nice and likeable character is a complete change.

  Nicholas Young

  Nice, Character, Likeable

  Source: collider.com

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• I'll do my best to always put God and neighbor ahead of ego, but I want to find myself, and if finding myself means losing my ego self, I'll go there.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Mean, Self, Ego

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I love finding myself in the most bizarre situations, drinking cobra's blood - really diverse stories. And yet, I will still turn up on location sometimes and be surprised by what I'm encountering or by how to do something.

  Phil Keoghan

  Drinking, Blood, Stories

  "Adventurer. Storyteller. Host of the Amazing Race". Interview with Zoe Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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