Findings Quotes - Page 33

• He didn't like it all that much when he first came - all the rubbish and the rush - but it was growing on him, it wasn't half bad. Coming to the city was like entering a tunnel, he said, and finding to your surprise that the light at the end didn't matter; sometimes in fact the tunnel made the light tolerable.

  Colum McCann

  Tunnels, Light, Cities

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.136, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I know that somehow, every step I took since the moment I could walk was a step towards finding you.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Steps, Moments, Walks

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “Message In A Bottle”, p.50, Hachette UK

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• Perhaps your challenge isn't finding a better project or a better boss. Perhaps you need to get in touch with what it means to feel passionate. People with passion look for ways to make things happen.

  Seth Godin

  Passion, Mean, People

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.82, Penguin

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• Wisdom is finding joy in bewilderment

  Peter S. Beagle

  Joy, Bewilderment

  Peter S. Beagle (2009). “We Never Talk about My Brother”

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• Wisdom consists in doing the next think you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.

  Meister Eckhart

  Heart, Thinking, Delight

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• Darius didn't have any trouble finding the Street Cats building. It was a cozy-looking square brick building with big front windows crowded with cat stuff. I made a mental note to pick up a little something for Nala from their gift shop. My cat was grumpy enough without her thinking that I'd been cheating on her (translation: I would smell like a zillion other cats) and hadn't even brought her a present.

  P. C. Cast

  Cheating, Cat, Thinking

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2010). “Untamed: A House of Night Novel”, p.145, Macmillan

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• There are no risk in Love, as you'll find out for yourself. People have been searching for and finding each other for thousands of years. Suddenly, he realised that the might be wrong. There was always a risk, a single risk: that one person might meet with more thatn one Soulmate in the same incarnation.

  Paulo Coelho

  Soulmate, Years, People

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• And I find myself saying, “It wasn’t really about her.” And finding it’s true. What do you mean?” Norah asks. It was about the feeling, you know? She caused it in me, but it wasn’t about her. It was about my reaction, what I wanted to feel and then convinced myself that I felt, because I wanted it that bad. That illusion. It was love because I created it as love.

  David Levithan

  Mean, Feelings, Illusion

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.83, Egmont UK

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• When people discuss his plays, he says that he feels like he's standing at customs watching an official ransack his luggage. He cheerfully declares responsibility for a play about two people, and suddenly the officer is finding all manner of exotic contraband like the nature of God and identity, and while he can't deny that they're there, he can't for the life of him remember putting them there. In the end, a play is not the product of an idea; an idea is the product of a play.

  Tom Stoppard

  Responsibility, Play, Ideas

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• Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Creating, Broken, World

  "BOOKMARK: Terry Tempest Williams on the perspective of nature and healing". Interview with Laurie Hertzel, www.startribune.com. June 30, 2017.

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• If a man loses a dear friend, he looks around and sees many friends come to console and comfort him. If a man loses his wealth, after a little thought he will realize that the delight that came from wealth will be restored by finding more. Thus he forgets his loss and is consoled. But if a man's heart is deprived of peace, where will he find it again, how will he replace it?

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Loss, Men

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• Waiting is a dry desert between where we are and where we want to be. (Finding My Way Home)

  Henri Nouwen

  Home, Waiting, Want

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• I have found it very important in my own life to try to let go of my wishes and instead to live in hope. I am finding that when I choose to let go of my sometimes petty and superficial wishes and trust that my life is precious and meaningful in the eyes of God something really new, something beyond my own expectations begins to happen for me. (Finding My Way Home)

  Henri Nouwen

  Letting Go, Meaningful, Eye

  Henri J.M. Nouwen (2017). “You Are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Convergent Books

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• I prayed hard and only gradually became aware that this fierce praying was a way of finding prologue and entrance into my own writing. This came as both astonishment and relief. When I thought God had abandoned me, I discovered that He had simply given me a different voice to praise the inexhaustible beauty of the made world.

  Pat Conroy

  Writing, Voice, World

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• The thing that's between us is fascination, and the fascination resides in our being alike. Whether you're a man or a woman, the fascination resides in finding out that we're alike.

  Marguerite Duras

  Relationship, Men, Fascination

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.39, Grove Press

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• Hovering near panic, trying to focus but finding it hard to open my eyes. My heart was pounding. I couldn’t get enough air, and I couldn’t find the desire to push her away

  Kim Harrison

  Heart, Eye, Air

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• When we want to help the poor, we usually offer them charity. Most often we use charity to avoid recognizing the problem and finding the solution for it. Charity becomes a way to shrug off our responsibility. But charity is no solution to poverty. Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor. Charity allows us to go ahead with our own lives without worrying about the lives of the poor. Charity appeases our consciences.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Responsibility, Worry, Use

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• Maybe his heart is searching for and not finding the place it used to live. I understand that because mine is searching and not finding too.

  Angela Johnson

  Heart, Used, Mines

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• She still cared for me, and the best way I could make amends to her was to be happy. I do have a knack for finding great women.

  Craig Ferguson

  Knack, Way, Great Women

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• Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men. ... One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him. This is what our society needs - not new ideas and inventions; important as these are, and not geniuses and supermen, but persons who can be, that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves.

  Rollo May

  Running, Exercise, Men

  "Man's Search for Himself" by Rollo May, (p. 56), 1953.

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• Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick shift. Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Say no when you don’t want to do something. Say yes if your instincts are strong, even if everyone around you disagrees. Decide whether you want to be liked or admired. Decide if fitting in is more important than finding out what you’re doing here. Believe in kissing.

  Eve Ensler

  Life, Strong, Stars

  "I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World". Book by Eve Ensler, 2010.

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• Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards.

  Jodi Picoult

  Awards, Lawyer, Notorious

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.281, Simon and Schuster

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• Then he will be called Acheron for the River of Woe. Like the river of the Underworld, his journey shall be dark, long and enduring. He will be able to give life and to take it. He will walk through his life alone and abandoned – ever seeking kindness and ever finding cruelty. May the gods have mercy on you, little one. No one else ever will. (Oracle)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Kindness, Dark, Journey

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.15, Macmillan

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• At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead.The hard thing is finding the courage to do it.

  Suzanne Collins

  Running, Catching On, Games

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.118, Scholastic Inc.

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• An evil man is a saint of the future. See good in everything. Destroy the evil-finding quality. Develop the good-finding quality. Rise above good and evil.

  Sivananda

  Men, Evil, Quality

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