Finding Yourself Quotes - Page 23

• Meditation is nothing but withdrawing all the barriers .. thoughts, emotions, sentiments .. which criteria wall between you and existence. The moment they drop, you suddenly find yourself in tune with the whole; not only in tune, you really find you are the whole.

  Rajneesh

  Wall, Meditation, Tunes

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• You can make bad choices and find yourself in a downward spiral or you can find something that gets you out of it.

  Ray LaMontagne

  Choices, Spirals, Downward Spiral

  "Ray LaMontagne: Digging Deep And Doing What He Does" by Ellen Sterling, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 2, 2010.

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• I would encourage people to realize that you don't have to panic if you're not part of a mainstream, or if you find yourself outside the flow. If it doesn't suit you, don't go along with it. Just sit it out and get your stuff done. Don't just sit moaning or getting drunk—I spent some years doing that. But if you can just come up with something of your own, however minor it is, that's going to be easier to live with when you're at the end of your life.

  Robert Wyatt

  Years, Suits You, People

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 14, 2014.

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• You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison.

  Bronislaw Malinowski

  Signatures, May, Prison

  Bronislaw Malinowski (2001). “Coral Gardens and Their Magic: A Study of the Methods of Tilling the Soil and of Agricultural Rites in the Trobriand Islands. The language of magic and gardening. II”, p.53, Psychology Press

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• All of my life had been spent in the shadow of apartheid. And when South Africa went through its extraordinary change in 1994, it was like having spent a lifetime in a boxing ring with an opponent and suddenly finding yourself in that boxing ring with nobody else and realising you've to take the gloves off and get out and reinvent yourself.

  Athol Fugard

  Boxing, Shadow, Opponents

  "I'm a storyteller, that's all" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2002.

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• No matter what your spiritual condition is, no matter where you find yourself in the universe, your choice is always the same: to expand your awareness or contract it.

  Thaddeus Golas

  Spiritual, Choices, Matter

  Thaddeus Golas (2002). “The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment”, p.58, Gibbs Smith

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• Education is of no value and talent is worthless - unless you have an unwavering aim. Never find yourself without a compass.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Basketball, Talent, Compass

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• So when you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there's always madness. Madness is the emergency exit.

  Alan Moore

  Past, Train Of Thought, Emergencies

  "Batman: The Killing Joke". Book by Alan Moore, 1988.

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• The sea's only gifts are harsh blows, and occasionally the chance to feel strong. Now I don't know much about the sea, but I do know that that's the way it is here. And I also know 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 death stone alone, with nothing to help you but your hands and your own head.

  Jon Krakauer

  Strong, Blow, Hands

  FaceBook post by Jon Krakauer from Jul 27, 2012

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• Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.

  Tom Robbins

  Pilots, Ships, Inappropriate

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

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• You can plan all you want to. You can lie in your morning bed and fill whole notebooks with schemes and intentions. But within a single afternoon, within hours or minutes, everything you plan and everything you have fought to make yourself can be undone as a slug is undone when salt is poured on him. And right up to the moment when you find yourself dissolving into foam you can still believe you are doing fine.

  Wallace Stegner

  Notebook, Morning, Lying

  Wallace Stegner (2007). “Crossing to Safety”, p.191, Modern Library

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• But don’t forget that memory is like salt: the right amount brings out
  the flavour in food, too much ruins it. If you live in the past all the
  time, you’ll find yourself with no present to remember.

  Paulo Coelho

  Memories, Past, Too Much

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• You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Responsibility, Thinking, Disobedience

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. January 1, 2007.

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• Happiness is in our own hearts. I have no regrets of anything in the past. I'm totally cheerful and happy, and I think that a lot of your attitude is not in the circumstances you find yourself in, but in the circumstances you make for yourself.

  Maeve Binchy

  Attitude, Regret, Heart

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• If you are on an honest journey to find yourself, you'll find God.

  Martin Sheen

  Journey, Growth, Honest

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• You wish for something, you've wanted it for years, and you're sure you want it, as long as you know you can't have it. But if all at once it looks as though your wish might come true, you suddenly find yourself wishing you had never wished for any such thing.

  Michael Ende

  Years, Long, Wish

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• The only opportunity you will ever have to live by faith is in the circumstances you are provided this very day: this house you live in, this family you find yourself in, this job you have been given, the weather conditions that prevail at the ...moment.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Jobs, Opportunity, Weather

  Eugene H. Peterson (2009). “Run with the Horses: The Quest for Life at Its Best”, p.150, InterVarsity Press

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• You ever find yourself being lazy for no reason at all? Like, you pick up your mail, you go in your house, you realize you have a letter for a neighbor. You ever just look at the letter and go "Hm. Looks like they're never getting this. It'll take too much energy to go back outside. I'm gonna get that to them later on. Right now I gotta watch some 'Love Connection.' They got some new host on there."

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Humor, House

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• If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission properly.

  David Hackworth

  Military, Fighting, Army

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• When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond between yourself and the people you photograph, when you laugh and cry with their laughter and tears, you will know you are on the right track.

  Weegee

  Laughter, People, Track

  "Weegee's story: from the Berinson Collection". Book bediyted by Weegee, Margit Zuckriegl, 1999.

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• If you want inner peace, find it in solitude, not speed, and if you would find yourself, look to the land from which you came and to which you go.

  Stewart Udall

  Peace, Land, Solitude

  Stewart L. Udall (1963). “The Quiet Crisis”

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• Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Helping Others, Understanding, Enemy

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• When you find yourself in the thickness of pursuing a goal or dream, stop only to rest. Momentum builds success.

  Suzy Kassem

  Dream, Goal, Momentum

  "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.

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• If you find yourself ruminating over a hurt and are not ready to forgive, shift to gratitude. Think about all that is good in your life and all that you appreciate.

  Stephen G. Post

  Gratitude, Hurt, Thinking

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• With vampires, there is such a great tradition that you suddenly find yourself a part of. Each generation reinvents what that means to them.

  Michael Sheen

  Mean, Vampire, Generations

  Source: collider.com

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