Finding Yourself Quotes - Page 19

• If you find yourself plagued by a recurrent worry, train yourself to think of something else. Your conscious mind can concentrate on only one thought at a time, and driving the negativity away will free you up to move forward again.

  Harvey Mackay

  Moving, Thinking, Worry

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• When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you're mean, and you spread it around. You get a chauffeur and you find yourself thrown around the back of this car and you think, I was happier when I had my own little car! I could drive myself!

  Paul McCartney

  Mean, Thinking, Car

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• I was a serious comic collector and fanboy as a kid. I wanted very badly to draw comic books for a lot of my childhood and early adolescence. So when you have an unfulfilled dream like that, when years later you find yourself in a position to make a graphic novel - hell yeah, I'm going to do that.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Dream, Book, Kids

  "Anthony Bourdain swears he's a nerdy fanboy". Interview with Aaron Sagers, geekout.blogs.cnn.com. June 28, 2012.

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• When you find yourself alone, or in a transition, you dream more. These are also the times when you read books.

  Anne Enright

  Dream, Book, Transition

  Interview with Conan Putnam, www.believermag.com. January, 2014.

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• You can't just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.

  Jimmy Page

  Not Happy

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• A person moving in zero gravity feels a pitiful helplessness. One wrong move and you find yourself spinning wildly. Everyone becomes a baby again in outer space, laboriously learning how to walk.

  Ulrich Walter

  Baby, Zero, Moving

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When contemplating the pursuit of a dream or the start of a new venture, too many people are hesitant to begin because they can't comprehend the entire journey. If that's where you find yourself right now, don't expect to understand what it takes to get to the top. Just take the next step. There's no shame in starting small; in fact, if you don't start small, you'll probably never start at all.

  John C. Maxwell

  Dream, Journey, New Ventures

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• The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

  "A Living Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright and Taliesin Architects". Book by John Rattenbury, 2000.

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• When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.

  Will Rogers

  Digging A Hole, Digging Ditches, Quitting

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• Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower...both strange and familiar.

  Cornelia Funke

  Flower, Book, Smell

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.65, Scholastic Inc.

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• If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), "Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?" chances are you are. The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.

  Steven Pressfield

  Real, Artist, Self

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.39, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do. [...] The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion. So 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

  Thinking, Differences, Savages

  "Unpopular Essays". Book by Bertrand Russell, p. 116, 1950.

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• A lot of women want to be married and have kids one day, but before we get there, it's so important to establish who you are, find yourself, and live in that for a minute before you become somebody's wife and mother.

  Sevyn Streeter

  Mother, Kids, Wife

  Source: www.refinery29.com

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• Until presence becomes your predominant state, you may find yourself moving back and forth for a while between the old consciousness and the new, between mind identification and presence.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Moving, Mind, May

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• Manifesting the blessings is not really anything that is complicated or even difficult. Clear out what is not serving you or no longer actively being utilized. Give and share joyously. Receive graciously. Make amends. Adorn yourself first with inner beauty so the outer beauty may benefit from your best intentions. Contribute more than you take. Make each place you find yourself better than you found it. Be an abundant source of good tidings to and from God. In short, let go and let God.

  John Morton

  Letting Go, Blessing, Giving

  John Morton (2000). “The Blessings Already Are”, p.162, Mandeville Press

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• If you find yourself mistreated, misunderstood, and mocked as a Christian, take heart, for so they did to the Christ.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Christian, Heart, Misunderstood

  Twitter post from Apr 02, 2015

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• When you do a lot of interviews, you find yourself telling the same stories over and over. After you do it for a whole day, you say, 'Christ, I've said this five times today.' It gets fun when you get so bored you start making it all up.

  Christian Bale

  Fun, Bored, Stories

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• If you find yourself concentrating on the technology rather than the sociology, you're like the vaudeville character who loses his keys on a dark street and looks for them on the adjacent street because, as he explains, "The light is better there."

  Tom DeMarco

  Character, Dark, Technology

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• Find yourself a cup of tea; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things. Saki Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

  Alice Walker

  Tea, Cups, Behind You

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• Stealing ideas from contemporaries is rude and tasteless. Stealing from the long dead is considered literary and admirable. The same is true of grave-robbing. Loot your local cemetery and find yourself mired in social awkwardness. But unearth the tomb of an ancient king and you can feel free to pop off his toe rings. You'll probably end up on a book tour, or bagging an honorary degree or two.

  N.D. Wilson

  Kings, Book, Ideas

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• You are not going to find yourself anywhere except right where you are.

  Vanna Bonta

  Where You Are

  "Shades of the World". Book by Vanna Bonta, 1985.

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• If you reach for the stars you may find yourself touching the sky.

  Heather Dorff

  Stars, Sky, Touching

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• Sometimes, opening up your eyes and realising what you have - no matter how little you think - helps you find yourself.

  Hillary Clinton

  Eye, Thinking, Opening Up

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• To really 'live,' that is to find life reasonably satisfying, you must have an adequate and realistic self-image that you can life with. You must find yourself acceptable to 'you.'

  Maxwell Maltz

  Self, Adequate, Realistic

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• I think they say that when you're breast feeding, you know, your weight kind of slims down. It's a little easier. It's like a workout within itself. It's very tiring actually and you find yourself snacking more often.

  Christina Aguilera

  Workout, Thinking, Weight

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