Finding Yourself Quotes - Page 14

• 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 used to tweet, but it's an act of futility. You're not really making any impact, and if you find yourself in a mood when you wanna be a bit controversial and you post something, you suddenly realise, 'Oh my God!' because you've opened yourself up to a bunch of criticism from strangers.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Impact, Futility Of Life, Criticism

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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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• I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

  Ringo Starr

  Long, Quests, Feels

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• The best thing to do when you find yourself in a hurting or vulnerable place is to surround yourself with the strongest, finest, most positive people you know.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Hurt, People, Vulnerable

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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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• 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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• What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer.

  Douglas Adams

  Moving, Challenges, Giants

  Douglas Adams (1985). “The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts”, Random House Value Publishing

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself inside her, because sometimes that is what it takes to claim.

  Jodi Picoult

  Children, Parent, Trying

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• Shutup, lapdog, this isn’t your fight, either. Boy, you better counsel that tongue before you find yourself without it.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fighting, Boys, Tongue

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Bad Moon Rising: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.244, Macmillan

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• find yourself a lover who will glue you to the floor

  Jimmy Buffett

  Glue, Lovers

  Song: Love And Luck, Album: Buffett Live: Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, 1992

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• It was the day of the worms. That first almost-warm, after-the-rainy-night day in April, when you bolt from your house to find yourself in a world of worms. They were as numerous here in the East End as they had been in the West. The sidewalks, the streets. The very places where they didn't belong. Forlorn, marooned on concrete and asphalt, no place to burrow, April's orphans.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Night, House, East

  Jerry Spinelli (1991). “Maniac Magee”

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• How are you in the profession of protecting people without knowing who I am? I’ve been told I have one of the most recognizable faces in the world. (Aiden) Wow…just out of curiosity, when you go to bed at night, do you find yourself ousted off the mattress by that ego? (Leta)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Night, Who I Am, Knowing

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• For Rat Kiley, I think, facts were formed by sensation, not the other way around, and when you listened to one of his stories, you'd find yourself performing rapid calculations in your head, subtracting superlatives, figuring the square root of an absolute and then multiplying by maybe.

  Tim O'Brien

  Thinking, Squares, Roots

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To truly find yourself, touch as many lives as possible!

  Ashley Klein

  Volunteer

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• Until you find yourself, it's impossible to lose you

  Drake

  Humble, Impossible, Loses

  Song: Houstatlantavegas, Album: So Far Gone, 2009

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• Letting go is freedom. When you find yourself in a useless battle, you merely walk off the battlefield.

  Hugh Prather

  Letting Go, Battle, Useless

  Hugh Prather, Gerald Jampolsky (2000). “The Little Book of Letting Go: A Revolutionary 30-Day Program to Cleanse Your Mind, Lift Your Spirit and Replenish Your Soul”, p.10, Conari Press

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• 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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• If you should find yourself in a place that is indifferent to you and there is someone there that your spirit stretches to, then that person is kin.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Spirit, Should, Indifferent

  Helen Oyeyemi (2013). “The Opposite House”, p.162, A&C Black

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• The use of self control is like the use of brakes on train. It is useful when you find yourself in wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right

  Bertrand Russell

  Self, Use, Brake

  Bertrand Russell (1987). “Bertrand Russell on ethics, sex, and marriage”

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• If you find yourself in some difficulty, step aside, and allow Buddha to take your place. The Buddha is in you.

  Nhat Hanh

  Steps, Awareness, Difficulty

  Thich Nhat Hanh, Rachel Neumann (2008). “Buddha Mind, Buddha Body: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.4, ReadHowYouWant.com

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