Quotes by Finding Yourself I've found that there is always some beauty left-in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you. Look at these things, then you find yourself again, and God, and then you regain your balance. And whoever is happy will make others happy too. He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery! Anne Frank make-others-happyfinding-yourselfsunshine 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 finding-yourselfartisttea It is in many people's best interest for you not to find Anne Lamott finding-yourselfpeopleworld Which is one of the dangers of immersion journalism: you can find yourself getting sucked into battles you have nothing to do with, in this case an ongoing battle between Muslims. Annia Ciezadlo finding-yourselfongoingbattle When you write, you lay out a line of words. Annie Dillard finding-yourselflineswriting 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 finding-yourselflandjoy 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 finding-yourselfpoliticsfirsts Everyone has troubles. Finding yourself in the same boat with everyone else is the first sign of spirituality. Arlo Guthrie finding-yourselfspiritualityfirsts Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You find yourself insensibly twisting them round to fit your theories. Arthur Conan Doyle finding-yourselfdataerrors Its so important to never limit yourself, to find yourself in a box. Ashanti finding-yourselflimitsimportant To truly find yourself, touch as many lives as possible! Ashley Klein finding-yourselfvolunteer 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 Fugard finding-yourselfshadowboxing 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 Wilson finding-yourselfstarting-overworld I was struck with a bolt of distilled horror like I have never known before. Far worse than suddenly finding yourself walking through a prison cafeteria wearing Daisy Duke shorts and a Jane Fonda headband. Augusten Burroughs finding-yourselfcafeteriadukes I grew up hearing over and over, to the point of tedium, that "hard work" was the secret of success: "Work hard and you'll get ahead" or "It's hard work that got us where we are." No one ever said that you could work hard - harder even than you ever thought possible - and still find yourself sinking ever deeper into poverty and debt. Barbara Ehrenreich finding-yourselfhard-worksecret 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 finding-yourselfsuccessfultrying 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 finding-yourselfwantjobs The most amazing thing is when you find yourself watching someone in the café 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 Whishaw finding-yourselfpeoplelooks Look before, or you'll find yourself behind. Benjamin Franklin finding-yourselffuturelooks 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 finding-yourselflastsmoving«1234567891011»
