Finding Yourself Quotes - Page 21

• You don't even realize you're living in a before until you wake up one day and find yourself in an after.

  Robin Wasserman

  One Day, Wake Up, Realizing

  Robin Wasserman (2012). “The Book of Blood and Shadow”, p.96, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Not just any talk is conversation; not any talk raises consciousness. Good conversation has an edge: it opens your eyes to something, quickens your ears. And good conversation reverberates: it keeps on talking in your mind later in the day; the next day, you find yourself still conversing with what was said. That reverberation afterward is the very raising of consciousness; your mind's been moved. You are at another level with your reflections.

  James Hillman

  Eye, Reflection, Talking

  James Hillman, Michael Ventura (1992). “We've had a hundred years of psychotherapy-- and the world's getting worse”, Harpercollins

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• Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone.

  Bruce Lee

  Loneliness, Cutting, Opportunity

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.101, Tuttle Publishing

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• The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

  Myles Munroe

  Discovery, Self, Life Is

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• The day you are happy for no reason whatsoever, the day you find yourself taking delight in everything and in nothing, you will know that you have found the land of unending joy called the kingdom.

  Anthony de Mello

  Land, Joy, Delight

  "The Way to Love: The Last Meditations of Anthony de Mello". Book by Anthony de Mello, 1995.

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• In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different- life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself- a girl should be two things: who and what she wants.

  Coco Chanel

  Girl, Order, Two

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• Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves...At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Heart, Trying, Needs

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• People are really trying their best. Just like being happy and sad, you will find yourself on both sides of the equation many times over your lifetime, either saying or hearing the wrong thing. Let's all give each other a pass, shall we?

  David Rakoff

  Forgiveness, People, Giving

  David Rakoff (2010). “Half Empty”, p.217, Anchor

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• I believe such illumination comes if you're open to the surprises the universe throws at you. You must be able to let go of the past, whatever success you may have seen, whatever your comfort, whatever your habits. To me, that's the key to loving life: Enabling yourself to step bravely into the unknown. Only there will you find yourself again.

  Juliette Binoche

  Letting Go, Believe, Past

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• I think life goes through a cycle of losing and refinding yourself all the time. Everyone has disappointments all the time, some of them pretty small, some of them pretty big.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Disappointment, Thinking, Losing

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• Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You find yourself insensibly twisting them round to fit your theories.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Errors, Data, Suits

  "Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories".

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• This hard place in which you perhaps find yourself is the very place in which God is giving you opportunity to look only to Him, to spend time in prayer, and to learn long-suffering, gentleness, meekness - in short, to learn the depths of the love that Christ Himself has poured out on all of us.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Prayer, Opportunity, Long

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• Bureaucracies force us to practice nonsense. And if you rehearse nonsense, you may one day find yourself the victim of it.

  Laurence Gonzales

  Practice, One Day, May

  Laurence Gonzales (2009). “Everyday Survival: Why Smart People Do Stupid Things”, p.69, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Keep your eyes on Christ, not the circumstances you find yourself in or the feelings you are experiencing.

  Bruce Wilkinson

  Eye, Feelings, Christ

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• You could begin to notice whenever you find yourself blaming others or justifying yourself. If you spent the rest of your life just noticing that and letting it be a way to uncover the silliness of the human condition-the tragic yet comic drama that we all continually buy into-you could develop a lot of wisdom and a lot of kindness as well as a great sense of humor.

  Pema Chodron

  Kindness, Drama, Way

  Pema Chodron (1996). “Awakening Loving-Kindness”, p.78, Shambhala Publications

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• Give your attention to the experience of seeing rather than to the object seen and you will find yourself everywhere.

  Rupert Spira

  Giving, Attention, Objects

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• No single decision you ever made has led in a straight line to where you find yourself now. You peeked down some roads and took a few steps before turning back. You followed some roads that came to a dead end and others that got lost at too many intersections. Ultimately, all roads are connected to all other roads.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Decision, Lines

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• If you lack the iron and the fizz to take control of your own life, then the gods will repay your weakness by having a grin or two at your expense. Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.

  Tom Robbins

  Iron, Two, Ships

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.103, Bantam

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• You must be able to handle a variety of move orders during the first 5-6 moves - otherwise you'll find yourself 'tricked' time and time again.

  Edmar Mednis

  Moving, Order, Chess

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• When everything goes without a hitch, where's the challenge, the opportunity to find out what you're made of?

  Shania Twain

  Opportunity, Challenges, Made

  Shania Twain (2011). “From This Moment On”, p.402, Simon and Schuster

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• Wherever you go, you will always bear yourself about with you, and so you will always find yourself.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Bears

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• Life's too short when you find yourself sitting in a car for four hours every day trying to get from East L.A. to West L.A. to Hollywood and then back to East L.A.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Car, Trying, Hollywood

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• One day you will disappear on a funeral pyre - just into nothingness, as smoke. Don't get attached to anything. This attachment takes you away from your real being; you become focused on the thing to which you are attached. Your awareness gets lost in things, in money, in people, in power. And there are a thousand and one things, the whole thick jungle around you, to be lost in. Remember, non-attachment is the secret of finding yourself, then awareness can turn inwards because you don't have anything outside to catch hold of. It is free, and in this freedom you can know your self-nature.

  Rajneesh

  Real, Attachment, Self

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• I think you can find yourself on one of these shows for a long period of time and think that all you'll ever be able to do is that character. Certainly people think of you that way.

  William Petersen

  Character, Thinking, Long

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• Anger is active sadness; sadness is inactive anger. They are not two things. Watch your own behaviour. When do you find yourself sad? You find yourself sad only in situations where you cannot be angry. The boss in the office says something and you cannot be angry; it is uneconomical. You cannot be angry and you have to go on smiling - then you become sad. The energy has become inactive. You come home, and with your wife you find a small thing, anything irrelevant, and you become angry.

  Rajneesh

  Anger, Home, Sadness

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