Finding Yourself Quotes

Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.

Change your conception of yourself and you will automatically change the world in which you live. Do not try to change people; they are only messengers telling you who you are. Revalue yourself and they will confirm the change.

He will provide the way and the means, such as you could never have imagined. Leave it all to Him, let go of yourself, lose yourself on the Cross, and you will find yourself entirely.

If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be,
you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be.

In those perfect moments you find beauty you never knew existed. You find yourself and you friends all over again, you find something to fight for, something to love. Something to show the world.

If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subsciously 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.

If you find yourself under lethal attack don't be kind. Be harsh. Be tough. Be ruthless.

Where focus goes, energy flows. And where energy flows, whatever you're focusing on grows. In other words, your life is controlled by what you focus on. That's why you need to focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear. When you next find yourself in a state of uncertainty, resist your fear. Shift your focus toward where you want to go and your actions will take you in that direction.

Don't do nothing halfway, else you find yourself dropping more than can be picked up.

You will find yourself in the Quran, I guarantee you.

When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends limitations; your conscious expands in every direction; and you find yourself in a great, new and wonderful world.

(...)how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong, to measure yourself at least once, to find yourself at least once in the most ancient of human conditions, facing the blind, deaf stone alone with nothing to help you but your hands and your own head.

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.

Education is of no value and talent is worthless - unless you have an unwavering aim. Never find yourself without a compass.

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

So Positive Psychology takes seriously the bright hope that if you find yourself stuck in the parking lot of life, with few and only ephemeral pleasures, with minimal gratifications, and without meaning, there is a road out. This road takes you through the countryside of pleasure and gratification, up into the high country of strength and virtue, and finally to the peaks of lasting fulfillment: meaning and purpose

Give your attention to the experience of seeing rather than to the object seen and you will find yourself everywhere.

Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful; the sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.

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

What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer.

You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.

So let me get this straight. You find yourself in the kitchen. You see an éclair in the receptacle... and you think to yourself: "What the hell, I'll just eat some trash."

Never assume people's motives. It's the easiest way to find yourself upset over nothing or misjudging people

Live today. Remove all blame from your vocabulary. Catch yourself when you find yourself using your past history as a reason for your failure to act today, and instead say, 'I am free now to detach myself from what used to be.'

Letting go is freedom. When you find yourself in a useless battle, you merely walk off the battlefield.

When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.

Do what you will while you're able, find what it is that you seek.

Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.

One was a book I read by Mahatma Gandhi. In it was a passage where he said that religion, the pursuing of the inner journey, should not be separated from the pursuing of the outer and social journey, because we are not isolated beings.

It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.

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.

Don't worry about finding your soul mate. Find yourself.

You will never understand who you are until you understand who God is.

Committing yourself is a way of finding out who you are. A man finds his identity by identifying.

You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things.

Life isn't about finding yourself; it's about creating yourself. So live the life you imagined.

You don't even realize you're living in a before until you wake up one day and find yourself in an after.

It's not about finding a home so much as finding yourself

Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore.

When the Lord is your confidence you will never find yourself at all deceived by the ways and speech of men and women, though they be very brilliant, if they speak outside of the Principle that demonstrates healing and goodness and life.

To find yourself, you must first lose yourself

I've always been the kind of person that doesn't like to trespass, but sometimes you just find yourself over the line.

You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.

Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.

When you’re reminded that God owes you nothing you find yourself more grateful and less entitled.

No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.

The truth is that, no matter what kind of game you find yourself in, no matter how good or bad the luck, you can change your life completely with a single thought or a single act of love

If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.

Will you gather daydreams or will you gather wealth? How can you find your fortune when you cannot find yourself?

If you don't know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out.