Finding Yourself Quotes - Page 7

• Writing can be a lonely business. But gradually your characters, or the scenes and peopl from your past, begin to rise up around you, and you find yourself writing your way out of loneliness, writing into your own company.

  Barbara Abercrombie

  Lonely, Loneliness, Writing

  Barbara Abercrombie (2012). “A Year of Writing Dangerously: 365 Days of Inspiration and Encouragement”, p.117, New World Library

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• I was literally just going and applying for jobs, and I couldn't get a job, and I was getting more and more broke, and you find yourself groveling for jobs you don't even want.

  Ben Gibbard

  Jobs, Want, Broke

  "Death Cab For Cutie's Guide To Seattle: Humble Beginnings" by James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. May 31, 2011.

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• Step by step, you make your way forward. That’s why practices such as daily writing exercises or keeping a daily blog can be so helpful. You see yourself do the work, which shows you that you can do the work. Progress is reassuring and inspiring; panic and then despair set in when you find yourself getting nothing done day after day. One of the painful ironies of work life is that the anxiety of procrastination often makes people even less likely to buckle down in the future.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Motivational, Writing, Procrastination

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• The idea isn't to find yourself another environment for tomorrow, but to be constantly creating the environment and community you want for yourself, no matter what may occur.

  Keith Ferrazzi

  Ideas, Creating, Community

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• When you find yourself on stage singing and you are embarrassed about what you are singing in front of your peers, then you have to think about your priorities.

  Alison Moyet

  Thinking, Priorities, Singing

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• The older you get, the more comfortable you get in your own skin. You find yourself.

  LeCrae

  Skins, Comfortable

  Source: www.artistdirect.com

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• The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you're not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one.

  Herman Wouk

  Navy, Genius, Execution

  Herman Wouk (1980). “The Caine mutiny”, Pocket

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• Merely by being born intelligent, you right away find yourself in absolute exile.

  Milan Kundera

  Intelligent, Born, Exile

  "Farewell Waltz: A Novel". Book by Milan Kundera, 1976.

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• When the Lord is your confidence you will never find yourself at all deceived by the ways and speech of men and women, though they be very brilliant, if they speak outside of the Principle that demonstrates healing and goodness and life.

  Emma Curtis Hopkins

  Healing, Men, Principles

  Emma Curtis Hopkins (2012). “Scientific Christian Mental Practice”, p.81, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Nobody can teach you love. Love you have to find yourself, within your being, by raising your consciousness to higher levels.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Levels, Consciousness

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• If you find yourself perplexed, or perhaps in a quandary, remember that human growth is perpendicular. We grow up and we grow forward, we just have to keep on growing steadily in both ways.

  John Rzeznik

  Growing Up, Growth, Way

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• I've found that there is always some beauty left-in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you. Look at these things, then you find yourself again, and God, and then you regain your balance. And whoever is happy will make others happy too. He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

  Anne Frank

  Sunshine, Make Others Happy, Balance

  Anne Frank (1959). “The Works of Anne Frank”, Greenwood Press

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• If you would find gold, you must search where gold is.

  William Juneau

  Gold, Ifs, Self Discovery

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• If you find yourself lost in the woods, build a house. "Well, I was lost, but now I live here!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, House

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• When you find yourself talking about less and less and forgetting the love that you bring, never forget there are things you can replace but others you can not.

  Bill Walton

  Talking, Never Forget, Can Not

  Source: www.theruggedmale.com

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• Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.

  Vernon Howard

  Breathing, Personality, Easy

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• If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room.

  Bill Laswell

  Moving, Long, Listening

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• To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to.

  Moliere

  Inspirational, Break Up, Pride

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• Man is almost mad-mad because he is seeking something which he has already got; mad because he's not aware of who he is; mad because he hopes, desires and then ultimately, feels frustrated. Frustration is bound to be there because you cannot find yourself by seeking; you are already there. The seeking has to stop, the search has to drop.

  Rajneesh

  Frustration, Men, Mad

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• The longer I lived, the more beautiful life became - despite my personal tragedies, the fire, despite my third wife and her dreadful taste. My dear Olgivanna, she insisted on replacing the lovely canvas and wooden trusses at Taliesin West with steel supports and pink frosted glass. Well, I was too old to care by then. What I decided early on was this: 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

  Beautiful, Fire, Glasses

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• Collaboration is risky. If it fails, if the occupation is wound up prematurely and the bad guys come back to power, you might find yourself in some serious trouble.

  Niall Ferguson

  Guy, Collaboration, Occupation

  "Imperial Denial". Interview with Nonna Gorilovskaya, www.motherjones.com. May 21, 2004.

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• Like all mothers, mother nature is delighted to keep in touch with you when you're appearing in hit tv shows like BJ and the bear and My Two Dads but when you suddenly find yourself hosting When Insects Attack, oh she becomes strangely distant.

  Greg Evigan

  Mother, Dad, Tv Shows

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• You do what you do - in the circumstances in which you find yourself - because of the way you are. So if you're going to be ultimately responsible for what you do, you're going to have to be ultimately responsible for the way you are - at least in certain mental respects. But you can't be ultimately responsible for the way you are (for the reasons just given). So you can't be ultimately responsible for what you do.

  Galen Strawson

  Way, Reason, Responsible

  Interview with Tamler Sommers, believermag.com. March 2003.

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• I like what is in the work -- the chance to find yourself.

  Joseph Conrad

  Chance

  Joseph Conrad (2012). “Heart of Darkness: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.41, Penguin

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• When you do a slasher film, you find yourself repeating the same kind of scene, then it becomes not very challenging and not very interesting.

  Alexandre Aja

  Interesting, Challenges, Kind

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