Finding Yourself Quotes - Page 5

• Well, I was lost but now I live here! I have severely improved my predicament!

  Mitch Hedberg

  Sarcastic, Humorous, Comedian

  "Mitch Hedberg: Mitch All Together". Comedy, 2003.

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• You cannot look at that which you do not want and not join and perpetuate that vibration. Take your attention from that which is not in harmony with who you are, and your "now vibration" will adjust to who you really are - and then you can uplift others.

  Esther Hicks

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Spiritual

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• The more I run, the more I want to run, and the more I live a life conditioned and influenced and fashioned by my running. And the more I run, the more certain I am that I am heading for my real goal: to become the person I am.

  George A. Sheehan

  Sports, Running, Real

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• We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "A Return to Love" by Marianne Williamson, (p. 191), March 15, 1996.

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• Conquering others requires force. Conquering oneself requires strength

  Laozi

  Motivational, Strength, Wisdom

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  You change the world by being yourself.

  Yoko Ono

  Inspirational, Change, Being Yourself

  Twitter post from Feb 15, 2013

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• Do what you gotta do so you can do what you wanna do.

  Denzel Washington

  Inspirational, Motivational, Believe In Yourself

  "Shaq asked Denzel Washington to say lines from 'Training Day' speech" by Alysha Tsuji, www.usatoday.com. April 17, 2018.

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• You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.

  Jerry Gillies

  Creativity, Discovery, Imagination

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• Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor. Perhaps, in a way, that's where humanity is now: about to discover we're not as smart as we thought we were, will be forced by life to surrender our attacks and defenses which avail us of nothing, and finally break through into the collective beauty of who we really are.

  Marianne Williamson

  Beautiful, Smart, Humility

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Aug 31, 2013

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• Night and gin and music-the right setting for peeling off the thin clinging layers of bullshit and finding one's way down closer to the essential self.

  John D. MacDonald

  Music, Night, Self

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• Finding oneself and one's path is like waking up on a foggy day. Be patient, and presently the fog will clear and that which has always been there can be seen. The path is already there to follow

  Rasheed Ogunlaru

  Patience, Fog, Follow Your Heart

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• There’s no shame about any honest calling; don’t be afraid of soiling your hands, there’s plenty of soap to be had.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Hands, Calling, Soap

  Charles Spurgeon (2012). “John Ploughman's Talks”, p.69, Whitaker House

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• Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Humility, Men, Self

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• When you have a life milestone happen, it's good to step back and reassess the things you thought you knew about yourself.

  Emily Yoffe

  Steps, Milestone, About Yourself

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• We must be our own before we can be another's.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Soulmate, Love Yourself

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.351, Library of America

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• What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one who sees that.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.27, Penguin

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• All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• If you find yourself with a weakness, attack it... don't develop a technique that avoids your weaknesses.

  Nelson Shanks

  Technique, Weakness, Ifs

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• Perfection is not necessary to make a real and lasting difference to other people's lives.

  J. K. Rowling

  Real, Differences, People

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• When you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.

  Tammara Webber

  Inspirational, Cowboy, Digging A Hole

  Tammara Webber (2014). “Between the Lines: The Complete Series”, p.521, Tammara Webber

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• Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.

  John Cage

  Cages

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• You should never worry too much about achieving your goals, because in the long run you might not find yourself too happy when you get there.

  Chad Channing

  Running, Worry, Long

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• When you help someone up a hill, you find yourself closer to the top.

  Brownie Wise

  Helping, Hills

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• Surround yourself with people who do what you want to do, and eventually you’ll wake up to find yourself doing the same.

  Justin Kan

  People, Wake Up, Want

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• As Dante says in the beginning of the Inferno, 'In the midst of life's journey I found myself in a dark wood, for the right path was lost.' I think we're all doing that, in our various ways Looking for our Selves in the dark wood. I hope you find yourself on your journey.

  Christopher Vogler

  Dark, Thinking, Journey

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