Losing Yourself Quotes - Page 7

• How can you be lonely? You've got yourself, haven't you? If you ever lose yourself, then you'll really be lonely.

  Joseph Delaney

  Lonely, Havens, Ifs

  Joseph Delaney (2014). “Last Apprentice 3-Book Collection: Revenge of the Witch, Curse of the Bane, Night of the Soul Stealer”, p.39, Harper Collins

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• To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that its surroundings fade away. In Benjamin’s terms, to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery.

  Rebecca Solnit

  World, Arms, Mystery

  Rebecca Solnit (2010). “A Field Guide To Getting Lost”, p.16, Canongate Books

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• You're dying with the way things are," Della Lee said harshly, causing Josey to lower the handful of popcorn she was about to put in her mouth. "You're going to lose yourself in this, Josey. It's going to happen if you don't change. I know. I lost myself trying to find happiness in things that didn't love me back.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Dying, Trying, Popcorn

  Sarah Addison Allen (2008). “The Sugar Queen”, p.76, Bantam

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• But life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is far and superior to that of muscle and sinew. Let me tell you, if you don't know it from your own experience, that reading a good book, losing yourself in the interest of words and thoughts, is for some people (me, for instance) an incredible intensity of happiness.

  Isaac Asimov

  Book, Reading, People

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.58, Bantam

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• Authentic human interactions become impossible when you lose yourself in a role.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Roles, Impossible

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.67, Penguin

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• Aren't you afraid?' 'Of what?' 'Of losing yourself.' 'That's what I'm hoping for.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Losing

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• To lose yourself in a book is the desire of the bookworm. I mean to be taken. That is my desire.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Book, Taken, Mean

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• Commitment means losing yourself to gain something temporary. Nothing lasts. Not looks. Not love.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Mean, Commitment, Perfect

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Perfect”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

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• I lock eyes with my reflection and don’t look away. The day you look away you start to lose yourself. I’m never going to lose myself. You are what you are. Deal with it or change.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Eye, Reflection, Locks

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.1503, Dell

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• My seminars are for you. They are moments, hours and evenings outside of time. A chance, in a highly charged environment, to meditate, find stillness, and remember who you are. A place, with others of like mind, to find and lose yourself in the transcendental light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Mind

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• When I look back at what I've written and try to explain it, it doesn't help, but it helps to be in a process of writing. It's the same thing with reading - you lose yourself when you read as well. When I was younger I used literature that way, it was just escapism, a tool to run away from things.

  Karl Ove Knausgard

  Running, Reading, Writing

  ""Something that's not yourself." — An Interview with Karl Ove Knausgård". Interview with Rebecka Bülow, logger.believermag.com. September 18, 2013.

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• I like the way that the history of the tree shapes the tree. There's no distinction between the tree and its history. You can lose yourself in that thought.

  Wendell Berry

  Tree, Shapes, Way

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.

  Bill Hicks

  Eye, Gun, Simple

  "Bill Hicks: Revelations". Documentary, Comedy, 1993.

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• Love is scary because it pulls you in with an intense force, a supermassive black hole which looks like nothing from the outside but from the inside challenges every reasonable thing you know. You lose yourself, like I lost myself, in the warmest of annihilations.

  Matt Haig

  Love Is, Scary, Challenges

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• To Dare is to risk losing your foothold for a moment, Not to Dare is to risk losing yourself.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Risk, Losing, Moments

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• You have to surround yourself with friends and loved ones because they're the only ones that will fight for you. It's always a battle to get the extra feeling in there, to push it further, to lose yourself. We can't be living constantly with some numb relationship.

  Eli Russell Linnetz

  Fighting, Feelings, Battle

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You had to come back to learn how to lose yourself, to be pilot and stray-witch, Hansel and Gretel in one.

  Seamus Heaney

  Pilots, Witch, Hansel And Gretel

  Seamus Heaney (2014). “Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996”, p.39, Macmillan

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• Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything.

  Ali Smith

  Moving, Book, Mean

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• When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world. Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from stillness. This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Self, Names, Meditation

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.3, New World Library

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• The thing I like about acting is being able to lose yourself completely in someone else.

  Ellen Page

  Acting, Able, Loses

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it might be, or you could relax and lose yourself

  Ken Kesey

  Inspirational, Fog, Choices

  Ken Kesey (2012). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.122, Penguin

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• To me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are happy; just as when you are desperately miserable you are intensely conscious of yourself, are a solid little lump of ego weighing a ton.

  Joseph Priestley

  Happiness, Self, Justice

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• When you lose all sense of self the bonds of a thousands chains will vanish. Lose yourself completely, return to the root of the root of your own soul.

  Rumi

  Self, Roots, Soul

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• People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

  Thomas Szasz

  Life, Wisdom, Creating

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (2004). “Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary”, p.139, Transaction Publishers

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• You will not be able to stay home, brother./You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out./You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip,/Skip out for beer during commercials,/Because the revolution will not be televised.

  Gil Scott-Heron

  Brother, Home, Beer

  Title of song (1974)

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