Quotes and Sayings About Finding Yourself
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So when you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there's always madness. Madness is the emergency exit.
-- Alan Moore -
Any change of my style, the way I've played for 10 years, will not be a drastic one. Yes, I've always given as good as I've got; as a forward you have to do that because, if you don't look after yourself, you might find yourself being thrown in a hole and buried.
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Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.
-- Alexander McCall SmithSource : Alexander McCall Smith (2010). “The Double Comfort Safari Club”, p.211, Anchor
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Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser's way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
-- Alexander Pope -
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You know those moments when everything is exactly the way it was meant to be? When you find yourself and your entire universe aligning in perfect synchronization, and you know you couldn’t possibly be more content? I was inside that very moment, and fully conscious of it.
-- Alice ClaytonSource : Alice Clayton (2016). “The Cocktail Collection: Wallbanger, Rusty Nailed, and Screwdrivered”, p.236, Simon and Schuster
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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 -
If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it.
-- Alvin Ailey -
I had my moments for sure but I wasn't confrontational. And sometimes you get on the court and you'd find yourself very confrontational. It was all a discovery.
-- Andre Agassi -
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Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.
-- Andre Breton -
Some things are so impossible, so fantastic, that when they happen, you are not at all surprised. Their sheer impossibility has made you imagine them too many times in your head, and when you find yourself on that longed-for moonlit path, it seems unreal but still, somehow, familiar. You dreamed of it, of course; you know it like a memory.
-- Andrew Sean GreerSource : Andrew Sean Greer (2007). “The Confessions of Max Tivoli: A Novel”, p.65, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Imagine the first time you are about to rap in a studio and you find yourself in a booth with Redman and KRS!
-- Angie Martinez -
Reading centers on finding yourself in a book. ...
-- Anita Silvey -
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Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
-- Ann Landers -
Funny, I'd forgotten that what comes to you when you take a psychedelic is not always a revelation of something new and startling; you're more liable to find yourself reminded of simple things you know and forgot you knew - seeing them freshly - old, basic truths that long ago became cliches, so you stopped paying attention to them.
-- Ann ShulginSource : Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin (1995). “Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story”
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You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist. You can make the work a chore, or you can have a good time. You can do it the way you used to clear the dinner dishes when you were thirteen, or you can do it as a Japanese person would perform a tea ceremony, with a level of concentration and care in which you can lose yourself, and so in which you can find yourself.
-- Anne Lamott -
It is in many people's best interest for you not to find yourself, but it only matters that it is in yours, and the whole world's, to proceed.
-- Anne Lamott -
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The day you are happy for no reason whatsoever, the day you find yourself taking delight in everything and in nothing, you will know that you have found the land of unending joy called the kingdom.
-- Anthony de Mello -
Do not first announce action, and then, when you are unable to take action, withdraw, because you will only find yourself in the same position as now, plus a public and humiliating confession of impotence.
-- Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery -
Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You can find yourself insensibly twisting them round to suit your theories.
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Its so important to never limit yourself, to find yourself in a box.
-- AshantiSource : Interview with Shawn Adler, www.ign.com. July 27, 2006.
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To truly find yourself, touch as many lives as possible!
-- Ashley Klein -
I can pretty much guarantee that you will at some point find yourself doing something that at one point you swore you'd never do. You'll do it for the sake of getting high, either directly or indirectly. Trust me. It will happen. You might think you know yourself better than anyone, but you have yet to become acquainted with your addiction. It will introduce itself in ways that you never thought were possible.
-- Ashly Lorenzana -
All of my life had been spent in the shadow of apartheid. And when South Africa went through its extraordinary change in 1994, it was like having spent a lifetime in a boxing ring with an opponent and suddenly finding yourself in that boxing ring with nobody else and realising you've to take the gloves off and get out and reinvent yourself.
-- Athol FugardSource : "I'm a storyteller, that's all" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2002.
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I ain't never found no place for me to fit. Seem like all I do is start over. It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself.
-- August WilsonSource : August Wilson (1988). “Joe Turner's Come and Gone”
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The trap for an actor is that you become too successful at what you're trying to do, and you can find yourself stuck there.
-- Ben Affleck -
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 -
The most amazing thing is when you find yourself watching someone in the cafe or something doing something weird. It's amazing what people do, isn't it, when you just look at them, when you take the time to look.
-- Ben WhishawSource : "Interview: Actor Ben Whishaw on 'Cloud Atlas' + Playing Q in 'Skyfall'". Interview with Alex Billington, www.firstshowing.net. October 31, 2012.
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If, in moving through your life, you find yourself lost, go back to the last place where you knew who you were, and what you were doing, and start from there.
-- Bernice Johnson Reagon -
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If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do. The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion. So whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard; you will probably find, on examination, that your belief is going beyond what the evidence warrants.
-- Bertrand RussellSource : Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.99, Routledge
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When you see what you're here for, the world begins to mirror your purpose in a magical way. It's almost as if you suddenly find yourself on a stage in a play that was written expressly for you.
-- Betty Sue Flowers