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Life isn't about finding yourself.
Life is about creating yourself.
- George Bernard Shaw
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We learn more by looking for the answer
to a question and not finding it
than we do from learning the answer itself.
- Lloyd Alexander
We come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Angelina Jolie
It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true delight is in the finding out,
rather than in the knowing.
- Isaac Asimov
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Boerne
Are you feeling stressed and upset?
If so, you are worrying about tomorrow.
Events that have already occurred may cause you regret,
but they only appear to cause worry.
If you just lost your job, you are not worrying about losing your job -
that already happened.
You are worrying about paying your bills and finding a new job.
Those are worries about tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no rule more invariable than that
we are paid for our suspicions
by finding what we suspect.
- Henry David Thoreau
A woman under stress is not immediately concerned
with finding solutions to her problems
but rather seeks relief
by expressing herself and being understood.
- John Gray
We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
- Henry David Thoreau
I have treated many hundreds of patients.
Among those in the second half of life -
that is to say, over 35 -
there has not been one whose problem in the last resort
was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.
- Carl Jung
One of the annoying things about believing in free will
and individual responsibility is the difficulty
of finding somebody to blame your problems on.
And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable
how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.
- P. J. O'Rourke
Don't die with your music still inside you.
Listen to your intuitive inner voice
and find what passion stirs your soul.
- Wayne Dyer
Find a time and place of solitude.
Look into the distance, and into the future.
Visualize the tomorrow you are going to build -
and begin to build that tomorrow, today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Find a place inside where there's joy,
and the joy will burn out the pain.
- Joseph Campbell
Through humor, you can soften some
of the worst blows that life delivers.
And once you find laughter,
no matter how painful your situation might be,
you can survive it.
- Bill Cosby
Find ecstasy in life;
the mere sense of living is joy enough.
- Emily Dickinson
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job,
tell 'em, Certainly I Can. -
and get busy and find out how to do it.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Well-being is making its way to you at all times.
If you will relax and find a way to allow it,
it will be your experience.
- Abraham (Esther Hicks)
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
What old people say you cannot do,
you try and find that you can.
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
Each one has to find his peace from within.
And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If you look into your own heart,
and you find nothing wrong there,
what is there to worry about?
What is there to fear?
- Confucius
The more we know about how we lost
our spontaneous wonder and creativity,
the more we can find ways to get them back.
- John Bradshaw
Find your balance and stand with it.
Find your song and sing it out.
Find your cadence and let it appear like a dance.
Find the questions that only you know how to ask and
The answers that you are content to not know.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
He who can give thanks for little
will always find he has enough.
- Anonymous
When you find peace within yourself,
you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.
- Peace Pilgrim
The best way to find yourself
is to lose yourself
in the service of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
- The Buddha
You can not find happiness by chasing after it.
Happiness comes from doing what you love to do,
and from being who you truly are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Find your way with the certain and gentle light of forgiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Go within every day and find the inner strength
so that the world will not blow your candle out.
- Katherine Dunham
We will either find a way or make one.
- Hannibal
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
If you look for the bad in people
expecting to find it, you surely will.
- Abraham Lincoln
Stand up to your obstacles
and do something about them.
You will find that they haven't
half the strength you think they have.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Just start dancing and the band will find you.
- Tama Kieves
You must live in the present,
launch yourself on every wave,
find your eternity in each moment.
- Henry David Thoreau
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels.
We shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
- Anton Chekhov
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your sacred space is where you can
find yourself again and again.
- Joseph Campbell
Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make,
both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control
the process of choosing, you can take control
of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom
that comes from being in charge of yourself.
- Robert Foster Bennett
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
Ask and it will be given to you;
seek and you will find;
knock and the door will be opened to you.
- Matthew 7:7
If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.
- Carl Lewis
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves
come when life seems most challenging.
- Joseph Campbell
I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new,
meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness comes when I remember that others' opinions of me
are just their opinions - nothing more.
I find happiness in moving toward my goals
regardless of the applause or the jeers of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today is your day to practice whimsey,
skip on the beach, and play with the waves,
watch wondrous cloud animals parade your story,
find a magical white bunny down every rabbit hole.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not seek to bring things to pass
in accordance with your wishes,
but wish for them as they are,
and you will find them.
- Epictetus
What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I find that the harder I work,
the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson
I find hope in the darkest of days,
and focus in the brightest.
I do not judge the universe.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished:
If you're alive, it isn't.
- Richard Bach
If we will be quiet and ready enough,
we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
- Henry David Thoreau
Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why live?
Adding one to my count of days, or postponing
a feared death by another day do not inspire me.
I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new, meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is necessary to help others,
not only in our prayers,
but in our daily lives.
If we find we cannot help others,
the least we can do is to desist from harming them.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
To succeed, you need to find
something to hold on to,
something to motivate you,
something to inspire you.
- Tony Dorsett
If we open a quarrel between past and present,
we shall find that we have lost the future.
- Winston Churchill
If you are possessed by an idea,
you will find it expressed everywhere,
you even smell it.
- Thomas Mann
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
When we try to pick out anything by itself,
we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
- John Muir
I Find A Magical White Bunny In Every Rabbit Hole.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that to find comfort, relax into the arms of Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Three Rules of Work:
Out of clutter find simplicity;
From discord find harmony;
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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