Losing Yourself Quotes

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  The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Success, Dance, Positivity

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Love, Boyfriend, Wisdom

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• once you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely.

  H. G. Wells

  Two, Choices, One Tree Hill Love

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• To find yourself, you must first lose yourself

  Jared Leto

  Finding Yourself, Firsts, Loses

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• The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Encouragement, Freedom, Business

  "The Power of Purpose: Find Meaning, Live Longer, Better". Book by Richard Leider, p. 35., 2010.

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• You lose yourself trying to hold on to someone who doesn't care about losing you

  Tablo

  Unrequited Love, Losing Someone, Sad Relationship

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• There is no way to find yourself until you discover how utterly to lose yourself.

  Rufus Jones

  Finding Yourself, Way, Quaker

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• If you zoom close-if you get really close to someone, if you really get close to yourself-then you lose the other person, you lose yourself entirely. You get so close you can't see anything anymore.

  David Levithan

  Zoom, Persons, Ifs

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• If you live through defeat, you are not defeated. If you are beaten but acquire wisdom, you have won. Lose yourself to improve yourself. Only when we shed all self-definition do we find who we really are.

  RZA

  Self, Definitions, Defeat

  The RZA (2009). “The Tao of Wu”, p.89, Penguin

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• Every man at some point in his life is gonna lose a battle. He's gonna fight and he's gonna lose. But what makes him a man is that in the midst of that battle, he does not lose himself.

  Eric Taylor

  Fighting, Men, Friday Night Lights

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• We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

  Pico Iyer

  Falling In Love, Time, Travel

  FaceBook post by Pico Iyer from Dec 01, 2012

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• I do not know if there is a more dreadful word in the English language than that word "lost."

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Losing Someone, Feeling Lost

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• Settle into mystery as you would settle into your most comfortable chair. Listen. Have visions. Lose yourself.

  Eric Maisel

  Vision, Mystery, Settling

  Eric Maisel (2000). “The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance”, p.27, Penguin

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• It's so easy to get caught up in what people expect of you. Sometimes, you can just lose yourself.

  Sarah Dessen

  People, Sometimes, Easy

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.20, Penguin

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• If you realize what the real problem is-losing yourself-you realize that this itself is the ultimate trial.

  Joseph Campbell

  Real, Trials, Losing

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• Before you can find God, you must lose yourself.

  Baal Shem Tov

  Loses

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• Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

  Thomas Merton

  Art, Fools Day, Finding Yourself

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.35, Shambhala Publications

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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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• Desert, in generally, is a very good place to find yourself. Or lose yourself.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Finding Yourself, Desert, Very Good

  Source: www.columbusalive.com

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• Find yourself by losing yourself for others.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Finding Yourself, Losing

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• Don't lose yourself to anger. It's gasoline. You can burn it as fuel, or you can use it to torch everything you care about and end up standing on a scorched battlefield, with everybody dead, even you-only your body doesn't have the good grace to quit breathing

  Karen Marie Moning

  Breathing, Grace, Torches

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.773, Dell

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• Lose your soul in God's Love...
  I swear there is no other way !

  Rumi

  Soul, Way, Swear

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• Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others...By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Happiness, Happy, Thinking

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  I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Adventure, Dead Poets Society

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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• A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself in the group, for the good of the group - that's teamwork.

  John Wooden

  Teamwork, Player, Groups

  "The Prodigy". IBM Linux Commercial (The Linux Foundation Video Site), www.youtube.com. 2003.

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