Finding Yourself Quotes - Page 12

• You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist. You can make the work a chore, or you can have a good time. You can do it the way you used to clear the dinner dishes when you were thirteen, or you can do it as a Japanese person would perform a tea ceremony, with a level of concentration and care in which you can lose yourself, and so in which you can find yourself.

  Anne Lamott

  Artist, Tea, Care

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.236, Anchor

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• (...)how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong, to measure yourself at least once, to find yourself at least once in the most ancient of human conditions, facing the blind, deaf stone alone with nothing to help you but your hands and your own head.

  Christopher McCandless

  Strong, Hands, Important

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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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• The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them.

  George Harrison

  Newspapers

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• The best way to meet a woman is in an emergency situation - if you're in a shipwreck, or you find yourself behind enemy lines, or in a flood.

  Mark Helprin

  Rainy Day, Enemy, Emergencies

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• Because that's just the way it is, and don't sleep on what you did before, you know, because it can... not hurt you, but you can find yourself sleeping on something that happened in the past, but you dare to progress and there is always room for progression.

  Thierry Henry

  Hurt, Sleep, Past

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• Did you find yourself?" "What?" said my sister. "Did you find yourself?" "She found me," I said.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  My Sister, Found, Said

  Gary D. Schmidt (2009). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.234, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Don't forget that we lawyers, we're a higher breed of intellect, and so it's our privilege to lie. It's as clear as day. Animals can't even imagine lying: if you were to find yourself among some wild islanders, they too would only speak the truth until they learned about European culture.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Lying, Animal, Culture

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Thinking, Agreement, People

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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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• I mean I think that when you've got a big brain, when you find yourself planted in a world with a brain big enough to understand quite a lot of what you see around you, but not everything, you naturally fall to thinking about the deep mysteries. Where do we come from? Where does the world come from? Where does the universe come from?

  Richard Dawkins

  Fall, Mean, Thinking

  "Richard Dawkins on the Truth of Evolution". "NOW with Bill Moyers", billmoyers.com. 2004.

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• There was rarely an obvious branching point in a person's life. People changed slowly, over time. You didn't take on step, then find yourself in a completely new location. You first took a little step off a path to avoid some rocks. For a while, you walked alongside the path, but then you wandered out a little way to step on softer soil. Then you stopped paying attention as you drifted farther and farther away. Finally, you found yourself in the wrong city, wondering why the signs on the roadway hadn't led you better.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Rocks, Cities, People

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection”, p.75, Macmillan

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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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• I noticed that once you realize someone's watching you it's pretty hard not to find yourself watching them back.

  Meg Rosoff

  Realizing, Hard

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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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• but sometimes one person can hold you up in life, keep you standing, and without that hand to hold, you can find yourself free-falling no matter how strong you used to be, no matter how hard you try to remain steady.

  Kristin Hannah

  Strong, Fall, Hands

  Kristin Hannah (2014). “The Kristin Hannah Collection: Volume 1: Firefly Lane, True Colors, Fly Away”, p.812, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Sometime during your life—in fact, very soon—you may find yourself reading a book, and you may notice that a book’s first sentence can often tell you what sort of story your book contains.

  Daniel Handler

  Reading, Book, May

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• I don't know why it's called "getting lost." Even when you turn down the wrong street, when you find yourself at the dead end of a chain-link fence or a road that turnd to sand, you are somewhere. It just isn't where you expected to be.

  Jodi Picoult

  Links, Getting Lost, Sand

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• He'd learned his lesson a long time ago: Even in the midst of heartbreak, you could still find yourself laughing.

  Cassandra Clare

  Long, Laughing, Lessons

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “What Really Happened in Peru”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• If you find yourself talking to the police, my advice is to stay calm but look guilty; it's your safest bet.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Talking, Advice, Police

  Ben Aaronovitch (2011). “Midnight Riot”, p.52, Del Rey

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• Some things are so impossible, so fantastic, that when they happen, you are not at all surprised. Their sheer impossibility has made you imagine them too many times in your head, and when you find yourself on that longed-for moonlit path, it seems unreal but still, somehow, familiar. You dreamed of it, of course; you know it like a memory.

  Andrew Sean Greer

  Memories, Path, Impossible

  Andrew Sean Greer (2007). “The Confessions of Max Tivoli: A Novel”, p.65, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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