THIS EDITION: find
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Quoted In The Grove:
I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don’t even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
~Veronica Roth
The world is like a reverse casino. In a casino, if you gamble long enough, you’re certainly going to lose. But in the real world, where the only thing you’re gambling is, say, your time or your embarrassment, then the more stuff you do, the more you give luck a chance to find you.
~Scott Adams
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
~Bill Moyers
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You’ve got to find some way of saying it without saying it.
~Duke Ellington
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
~Macklemore
Flea markets are fun because they are the ultimate treasure hunt. Be open to the fact that you never know what you’ll find. The most beautiful, quirky, funny, scary pieces may not have an intrinsic value.
~Lara Spencer
You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
~Wislawa Szymborska
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If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
~Margaret Mead
If you’re going to commit to that, you’re going to have to find some way to make it bearable and enjoyable.
~Ryan Reynolds
The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.
~Satyajit Ray
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Finding out the truth doesn’t always work out for the best!
~Axel
I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.
~Frank A Clark
The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.
~Bill Nye
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Life’s a game made for everyone and love is the prize.
So wake me up when it’s all over ‒ when I’m wiser and I’m older.
All this time I was finding myself and I didn’t know I was lost.
~Avicii
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
~George Bernard Shaw
Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made.
~Jacques Barzun
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It’s not possible to experience constant euphoria, but if you’re grateful, you can find happiness in everything.
~Pharrell Williams
As an exercise in appreciation, try for one hour to feel grateful for every single thing you find yourself doing… For a full hour do not take even the smallest action for granted. Be aware of every detail of what you can do. Anyone who does this daily for even a short time will have a much greater appreciation for everything he does.
~Zelig Pliskin
The unthankful heart… discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
~Henry Ward Beecher
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I don’t find I’m manic at all. I’m very chill.
~Kirsten Dunst
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
~Lao-Tzu
Somehow, we’ll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.
~Brandon Sanderson
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In contradiction and paradox, you can find truth.
~Denis Villeneuve
Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
~Ayn Rand
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
~Hermann Hesse
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
~Joseph Joubert
The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
~Robert M Pirsig
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Since social relationships are always ambiguous, since my thought is only a unit, since my thoughts create rifts as much as they unite, since my words establish contacts by being spoken and create isolation by remaining unspoken, since an immense moat separates the subjective certitude that I have for myself from the objective reality that I represent to others, since I never stop finding myself guilty even though I feel I am innocent…
~Ludwig Wittgenstein
You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.
~author unknown
I must congratulate myself, in passing, for never having lost the ability to examine my conscience, never having lost the gift of finding myself wanting & defective. Why fear the criticism of others when you, yourself, are first out of the critical gate? If self-denigration is the race I am the winner, even before the starting gun. Collect the bets.
~Frank McCourt
I’ve never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.
~Judy Garland
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Modernism was born in part out of the need to find fresh ways of expression, to describe a new world that was unlike anything that had gone before.
~Margaret MacMillan
One of the things that’s interesting to me is I find things like caffeine and stunts actually relax me. When they’re putting a bit of gel on my arm and lighting me on fire, or when I’m about to go into a high-speed car chase or rev a motorcycle up pretty fast, I find everything else around me slows down.
~Nicolas Cage
Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
~Albert Einstein
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One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed.
~Patricia Briggs
We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.
~Marcel Proust
It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
~F Scott Fitzgerald
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Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.
~Eckhart Tolle
Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it’s your responsibility to love it, or change it.
~Chuck Palahniuk
It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.
~Jordan Peterson
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I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
~Dalai Lama
Find the good. It’s all around you. Find it, showcase it and you’ll start believing in it.
~Jesse Owens
Give light and people will find the way.
~Ella Baker
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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
~Plato
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
~Jean-Paul Sartre
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
~Charles de Gaulle
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In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
~Eric Hoffer
You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.
~Vivienne Westwood
If you really think about it, if we begin to teach history exactly the way that it happened ‒ good, bad, ugly, no matter what ‒ I believe that we’re going to find that we are closer, more connected than we are apart.
~Ruby Bridges
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If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.
~James Truslow Adams
If we knew each other’s secrets, what comforts we should find.
~John Churton Collins
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To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.
~Edward de Bono (Six Thinking Hats)
You got to go down a lot of wrong roads to find the right one.
~Bob Parsons (GoDaddy)
Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
~Francis Bacon (wise man)
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Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.
~William James
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.
Eagles don’t flock, you have to find them one at a time.
~Ross Perot
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Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege.
~William Beveridge
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
~Denis Diderot
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
~Pearl Bailey
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
~Herman Hesse
To find yourself, think for yourself.
~Socrates
Committing yourself is a way of finding out who you are. A man finds his identity by identifying.
~Robert Terwilliger
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The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
~Isaac Bashevis Singer
I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.
~David Bowie
You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, ‘I’m proud of what I am and who I am, and I’m just going to be myself.’
~Mariah Carey
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If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
~John Irving
When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.
~Jim Rohn
Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.
~Jimmy Buffett
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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
If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.
~James A Michener
Find out who you are and do it on purpose.
~Dolly Parton
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Posted From The Grove
Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don’t change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.
~Woody Guthrie
Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
~William Inge
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Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth.
~George Soros
You can’t help people being right for the wrong reasons…This fear of finding oneself in bad company is not an expression of political purity; it is an expression of a lack of self-confidence.
~Arthur Koestler
I believe that one of the best ways of getting at truth is reflecting with others who have opposing views and who share your interest in finding the truth rather than being proven right
~Ray Dalio
I let the argument rip healthily between the departments. This is a very good way to finding out the truth.
~Winston Churchill
(A practice used to good effect by Abraham Lincoln. ~Ed Note)
The enemies cannot destroy the king who has at his service the respect and friendship of the wise men who can find fault, disagree, and correct him.
~Thiruvalluvar
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A wise ruler, when he makes his laws, is bound to find himself in conflict with the world.
~Han Fei
Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.
~John W Gardner
Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.
~Gary Snyder
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I’m finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I’m finding myself really angry over what’s happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I’m angry about cap and trade. And I’ve been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.
~Gary Johnson
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
~Groucho Marx
Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
~Albert Camus
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One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.
~Carl Sagan
There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth.
~Dorothy Thompson
Finding out the truth is only half of it. It’s what you do with it that matters.
~Tristan Wilds
Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.
~Thucydides
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There’s nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and knowing that you’re not a true ally to the person who’s in charge of all that.
~Daniel Day-Lewis
He’s smart allright, and I find he’s a fresh of breath air, but we both know whose President and whose in charge.
~T Rumpledthinskin
Being a nocturnal creature myself, I often find myself in dark alleys or strange places late at night. If there were werewolves around, I’d be likely to run into them, being the night owl that I am.
~Dean Ambrose
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When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.
~Malcolm Forbes
When you are behind bars with no hope of release, you need to find strength wherever you can. Personally, I found strength in Michael Jackson.
~Nelson Mandela
Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
~Matthew Arnold
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
~Alfred Lord Tennyson
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If the same punishment is prescribed for two crimes that injure society in different degrees, then men will face no stronger deterrent from committing the greater crime if they find it in their advantage to do so.
~Cesare Beccaria
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There’s nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.
~Malcolm Muggeridge (journalist/satirist)
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
~Mark Twain
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
~Marcus Aurelius
My sensibility has never been political. The things I find funny are generally apolitical.
~Tim Dillon
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It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.
~Julius Caesar
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
~Donald Trump
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My mama always used to tell me: ‘If you can’t find somethin’ to live for, you best find somethin’ to die for.’
~Tupac Shakur
You must be bold, brave, and courageous and find a way… to get in the way.
~John Lewis
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History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be.
~John Henrik Clarke
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
~Winston Churchill
The future would end up finding out the truth about the past.
~Paulo Coelho
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Human nature is full of riddles; . . . one of those riddles is: how is it that people who have been crushed by the sheer weight of slavery and cast to the bottom of the pit can nevertheless find strength in themselves to rise up and free themselves first in spirit and then in body while those who soar unhampered over the peaks of freedom suddenly lose the taste of freedom, lose the will to defend it, and, hopelessly confused and lost, almost begin to crave slavery?’
~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
~Niccolo Machiavelli
Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it. You find that out really fast.
~Tom Waits
Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.
~Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
~Frank Herbert
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
~Robert A Heinlein
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We often find far more power in a symbol than in something that is an an actuality.
~Steven Berkoff
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But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.
~Nancy Pelosi
Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can’t make head nor tail out of it.
~Groucho Marx
I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel his theory out. It drives you up the wall. I think the greatest form of finding out the truth is through fantasy.
~Joseph Fiennes
The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
~Thomas Sowell
I am politically incorrect, that’s true. Political correctness to me is just intellectual terrorism. I find that really scary, and I won’t be intimidated into changing my mind. Everyone isn’t going to love you all the time.
~Mel Gibson
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Am I a liberal or conservative? I’m neither. Like most Americans, I find politics very frustrating. Like most Americans, I’d like to hear from politicians the facts. That is what drives me.
~Soledad O’Brien
In any situation that we find in our lives, when there is something that we feel should be better, we must exert effort to try and make it better. So it’s the same socially, musically, politically in any department of our lives.
~John Coltrane
I believe that every single one of us, celebrity or not, has a responsibility to get involved in trying to make a difference in the world. Our generation faces many challenges, some of which were passed on to us by the past generations, but it’s up to us to find solutions today so that we don’t keep passing our problems on.
~Shakira
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Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out.
~Ronald Reagan
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With all of the bad things that are happening in the world right now, I think we need a message of togetherness and true unity. I believe that starts with personal reflection and then we can find kindness toward each other.
~Marielle Heller
We can choose to wake up and grumble all day and be bitter and angry and judge others and find satisfaction in others doing bad instead of good. Or we can we wake up with optimism and love and say, ‘Just what is this beautiful day going to bring me?’
~Margaret Trudeau
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The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
~Ulysses S Grant
Diplomacy is the art of saying ‘Nice doggie’ until you can find a rock.
~Will Rogers
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Migration is as natural as breathing, as eating, as sleeping. It is part of life, part of nature. So we have to find a way of establishing a proper kind of scenario for modern migration to exist. And when I say ‘we,’ I mean the world. We need to find ways of making that migration not forced.
~Gael Garcia Bernal
It’s about mass immigration at a time when 21% of young people can’t find work. It’s about giving £50 million a day to the EU when the public finances are under great strain.
~Nigel Farage
Never mind that Mount Sermon thing. You’ll find that’s for heaven, later. This is still the real world, and a cruel world still makes the rules, than God.
~St Rumpet
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Immigrant parents dream that their children will find a place in their new home, and they willingly suffer hardships in service to that dream. That was certainly true of my parents.
~Gene Luen Yang
When you get to know a lot of people, you make a great discovery. You find that no one group has a monopoly on looks, brains, goodness or anything else. It takes all the people ‒ black and white, Catholic, Jewish and Protestant, recent immigrants and Mayflower descendants ‒ to make up America.
~Judy Garland
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I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle.
~Tom Wolfe
Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.
~Johannes Brahms
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If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
~Cardinal Richelieu
Look and you will find it ‒ what is unsought will go undetected.
~Sophocles
Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.
~Robert Jackson
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If you abuse the public trust, we’re going to find you, and and we’re going to prosecute you.
~Josh Hawley
Psychopaths are social predators, and like all predators, they are looking for feeding grounds. Wherever you get power, prestige and money, you will find them.
~Robert D Hare
I find the idea of vigilante justice very attractive. I like the idea that the murderer decides that this person has gone too far, and nothing will happen to him unless she does something to stop him.
~Donna Leon (crime novelist)
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
~Frederick Douglass
People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that’s the time to do something about it, not when it’s around your neck.
~Chinua Achebe
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If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy.
~James Monroe
He who threatens us will find us deaf to his threats. We are willing to listen only to rational arguments.
~Menachem Begin
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A man rising in the world is not concerned with history; he is too busy making it. But a citizen with a fixed place in the community wants to acquire a glorious past just as he acquires antique furniture. By that past he is reassured of his present importance; in it he finds strength to face the dangers that lie in front of him.
~Malcolm Cowley
Patience, the beggar’s virtue, shall find no harbor here.
~Philip Massinger
A man must fortify himself and understand that a wise man who yields to laziness or anger or passion or love of drink, or who commits any other action prompted by impulse and inopportune, will probably find his fault condoned; but if he stoops to greed, he will not be pardoned, but render himself odious as a combination of all vices at once.
~Apollonius of Tyana
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It is the right of government to protect the weak; it is the right of the weak to find in their courts fair treatment before the law.
~Robert Kennedy
You know people talk about federal money as if it falls from heaven. You know we thank heaven for it, but it came out of people’s pockets ‒ and I’ve driven all over Washington, D.C., I cannot find the money tree.
~John Kennedy
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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating… because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
~Fidel Castro
I find that Americans completely lack sensibility and good taste. They are boring, and they all have faces like unbaked rolls.
~Frida Kahlo
My accent does slip. When I arrived in England in 1978 at 18, I was shocked to find myself ‘the American’ at RADA. The English and the Americans have an intense relationship. They helped us out in the Second World War.
~Mark Rylance
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Sow confusion to reap chaos, then find its remedy in the monarchy of martial law. You can smell the smoke from here, same as before, in ’76.
~author unknown
The monarchy is foremost a business, and it’s important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless ‘royal’ family. I find it very sad.
~Morrissey
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Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
~Margaret Thatcher
If we want to preserve the foundation of our democracy, it’s vital that we find common ground that allows us to work for the greater good of this nation. This does not mean giving up our values. This does not mean swallowing a bitter compromise.
~Tulsi Gabbard
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I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.
~T D Jakes
Patriotism is love of country. But you can’t love your country without loving your countrymen and countrywomen. We don’t always have to agree, but we must empower each other, we must find the common ground, we must build bridges across our differences to pursue the common good.
~Cory Booker
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~Duckpix: Barn Find (0:51) the colors, the setting and sounds, it all comes together in 51 seconds
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~Tayseer Alhamanad: Find Nishan (5:58) too real to be a travel video, but wonderful
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~Allesandro Grespan: Find Yours (1:23) a variety of talents on quick display
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~Leanne’s Art Lab: if you’re trying to find your art style…STOP! (5:35) a meditation on art style while watching something take form
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The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.
~George Bernard Shaw
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
~Mark Caine
Anybody who succeeds is helping people. The secret to success is find a need and fill it; find a hurt and heal it; find a problem and solve it.
~Robert H Schuller
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To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
~Tony Dorsett
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
~Thomas Jefferson
At Uber, we say, ‘Always be hustling.’ Even if you are an introvert and you haven’t got hustle in you, you better get a co-founder who does. And if you haven’t got enough hustle to find a co-founder who’s got hustle, it’s going to be tough. You’ve got to have a little hustle in you.
~Travis Kalanick
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When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.
~Theodore Roosevelt
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You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
~Charles Buxton
You have power over your mind ‒ not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
~Marcus Aurelius
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Find like-minded people who are on the same page as you, and then lift each other up.
~Nahnatchka Khan
Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you’ll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you’ll find that you have more of it.
~Ralph Marston
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I’m an ocean, because I’m really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures.
~Christina Aguilera
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
~Warren Buffett
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Wipe the tears away, stand up, be a man, run your business, find a way.
~Kevin Plank
No matter what problem you encounter, whether it’s a grand challenge for humanity or a personal problem of your own, there’s an idea out there that can overcome it. And you can find that idea.
~Ray Kurzweil
Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next.
Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
~Denis Waitley
For every failure, there’s an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
~Mary Kay Ash
Find the confidence in whatever way you can to just keep moving onto the next page. The only way you will finish projects and get better is to keep moving forward.
~Charles Forsman
When you look at people who are successful, you will find that they aren’t the people who are motivated, but have consistency in their motivation.
~Arsene Wenger
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Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
~Warren Buffett
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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you’ll achieve the same results.
~Tony Robbins
While you’re going through this process of trying to find the satisfaction in your work, pretend you feel satisfied. Tell yourself you had a good day. Walk through the corridors with a smile rather than a scowl. Your positive energy will radiate. If you act like you’re having fun, you’ll find you are having fun.
~Jean Chatzky
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It’s just too much if you make your career everything. It is everything when you’re doing it. But you have to find things you love just as much.
~Sandra Bullock
People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.
~John Wanamaker
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There’s no path to success. Everyone constructs their own path. The important thing is to follow your heart. Find your niche, is my best advice.
~Karol G (Colombian singer, panel discussion)
I, myself, have tried following people around me, and I’ve got lost and ended up feeling emptiness rather than a sense of accomplishment. I’d like everyone to find their own role models within themselves.
~Jisoo (Blackpink)
The only thing I have learned is to find strength in yourself. No one can help you, no one can do anything for you, you have to do the work yourself.
~Marina Abramovic (Serbian conceptual artist)
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Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions ‒ Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.
~Chanakya
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Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage.
~Sam Walton
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Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.
~Steve Jobs
Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
~H Jackson Brown, Jr
To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
~Pearl S Buck
Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.
~Julia Child
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Finding oneself and one’s path is like waking up on a foggy day. Be patient, and presently the fog will clear and that which has always been there can be seen. The path is already there to follow.
~Rasheed Ogunlaru
The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it.
~Kalpana Chawla
You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.
~Alexander the Great
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I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.
~Charles Schwab
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One thing about championship teams is that they’re resilient. No matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a way to bounce back and overcome adversity.
~Nick Saban (commentator)
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What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.
~Arnold Palmer (PGA)
To find a man’s true character, play golf with him.
~P G Wodehouse
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It’s like everything in football ‒ and life. You need to look, you need to think, you need to move, you need to find space, you need to help others. It’s very simple in the end.
~Johan Cruyff
Some people try to find things in this game that don’t exist but football is only two things ‒ blocking and tackling.
~Vince Lombardi
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But each time I seemed to be climbing into a roller coaster and finding myself coming through the downhill run with that sort of dazed feeling that we all know.
~Enzo Ferrari (motorsports)
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So many people condemn me for risk taking, but I find it sort of hypocritical because everybody takes risks. Even the absence of activity could be viewed as a risk.
~Alex Honnold (rock climber)
Just find what works for you, what style suits you best, and just be confident enough to rock it.
~Odell Beckham, Jr (NFL)
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Sleep is all about recovering. So if you’re not sleeping, you’re not recovering. And if you’re going to break your body down a lot, you better find ways to build it back up. And the only way to do that is get a lot of sleep. So for me, I go to bed at like 8:30, 9:00. As soon as I put my kids to bed. Because I’m up at 5:30 the next day.
~Tom Brady
It’s very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.
~Thich Nhat Hanh
I have spent my whole life scared, frightened of things that could happen, might happen, might not happen, 50 years I spent like that. Finding myself awake at three in the morning. But you know what? Ever since my diagnosis, I sleep just fine.
~Walter White (Breaking Bad)
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We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
~George Orwell
When I first found out I had HIV, I had to find somebody who was living with it, who could help me understand my journey and what I was going to have to deal with day-to-day. I found out that a person named Elizabeth Frazier was living with AIDS at the time, and so I called her up, and she took a meeting with me.
~Magic Johnson
I’d been convinced I was on the outside, but really, I’d always been within arm’s reach. All I had to do was ask, and I, too, would be easily brought back, surrounded and immersed, finding myself safe, somewhere in between.
~Sarah Dessen
Every single one of us will have our life interrupted, whether it’s by the ripcord of a diagnosis or some other kind of heartbreak or trauma that brings us to the floor. We need to find a way to live in the in-between place, managing whatever body and mind we currently have.
~Suleika Jaouad
Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.
~Tori Amos
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Finding happiness is like finding yourself. You don’t find happiness, you make happiness. You choose happiness. Self-actualization is a process of discovering who you are, who you want to be and paving the way to happiness by doing what brings you the most meaning and contentment to your life over the long run.
~David Leonhardt
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
~Agnes Repplier
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I long for the countryside. That’s where I get my calm and tranquillity ‒ from being able to come and find a spot of green.
~Emilia Clarke
I don’t have to take a trip around the world or be on a yacht in the Mediterranean to have happiness. I can find it in the little things, like looking out into my backyard and seeing deer in the fields.
~Queen Latifah
I think it’s important to find the little things in everyday life that make you happy.
~Paula Cole
All my life, I have been a positive thinker… I have always been able to survive by telling myself that no matter how bad things are, they will one day be better. And that out of every event ‒ no matter how tragic ‒ one can always find a way to survive and even, perhaps, to be a little bit happy.
~Zsa Zsa Gabor
I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
~Martha Washington
A smile is happiness you’ll find right under your nose.
~Tom Wilson
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Find something that makes you happy and go for it.
~Zendaya
It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
~Denis Waitley
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We always want more. Whether it is better clothes, a bigger house, faster cars, or the latest gadgets, satisfaction in these days of consumerism is difficult to find.
~Tulsi Tanti
When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things ‒ not the great occasions ‒ that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
~Bob Hope
The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
~Daniel Dennett
Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
~Hafez
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§ VIDEO:
There are definitely things about acting that have helped me growing up and finding myself, but there are also things that make it a bit more difficult. I guess I do allow myself to explore more when I know that, at the end of the day, if I really wanted to, I could just play a different person all day and be fine with that.
~Rowan Blanchard
Acting is all about finding the truth within whatever world you’re in.
~Karen Gillan
Acting is not about being someone different. It’s finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.
~Meryl Streep
I do find that there’s a fine balance between preparation and seeing what happens naturally.
~Timothee Chalamet
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I’ve done almost 20 films and I still worry about not finding the next one.
~Joshua Leonard
My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.
~Barbara Stanwyck
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My natural accent is American. I chose to speak with a U.K. accent when I was about to enter the final year at drama school in London. I was going to try to find a way to stay in the U.K. after I finished college and could not imagine trying to live and get work there with an American accent.
~Jennifer Ehle
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Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds… true love?
~Bram Stoker
I wanted to play Dracula because I wanted to say: ‘I’ve crossed oceans of time to find you.’ It was worth playing the role just to say that line.
~Gary Oldman
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I enjoy flitting around between hair colours. I find it fascinating when people think I’m naturally blonde, as I’ve only been blonde for about two seconds. People pay more attention to you as a blonde; it’s also easier for people to assume you’re a ditsy young actress. Of course, I am a ditsy young actress ‒ well, maybe not ditsy.
~Holliday Grainger
Finding myself a nice and likeable character is a complete change.
~Nicholas Young
There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.
~William Shakespeare
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I didn’t have the problem of finding myself at 45 on the wrong course ‒ I always wanted to be a film director.
~Elia Kazan
To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I’m writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I’m going to play for the opening sequence.
~Quentin Tarantino
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I love finding myself in the most bizarre situations, drinking cobra’s blood ‒ really diverse stories. And yet, I will still turn up on location sometimes and be surprised by what I’m encountering or by how to do something.
~Phil Keoghan (NZ tv)
It’s impossible to overvalue the importance of television ‒ both in its serious and less serious functions. It’s one of our most important ways of finding out the truth ‒ and also of changing the world, and finding out what in the world needs changing. It’s also an immense bringer of joy ‒ I learnt how to laugh through television, and now my children and I, every day of every week, share the joy and stupidity of TV shows ‒ they actually make us HAPPY
~Richard Curtis
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Usually I like playing other people. I like finding myself through other characters. But when you do cabaret, you are yourself. I think it’s the most fun, and I tell you, if somebody had told me that, I would have done it fifteen years earlier than I did.
~Faith Prince
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People often say that ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder,’ and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.
~Salma Hayek
I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don’t expect it.
~Jean Paul Gaultier
I find beauty in imperfection.
~Rachel Morrison
I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect ‒ they are much more interesting.
~Marc Jacobs
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
~Saint Augustine
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Celebrate the idea that you don’t fit in. Find your own fit. Stay unique.
~Betsey Johnson
You just have to find that thing that’s special about you that distinguishes you from all the others, and through true talent, hard work, and passion, anything can happen.
~Dr Dre
Find your passion, set a goal, go to work, evaluate, reassess, and repeat.
~Elana Meyers
If you’re being ignored, that’s a good time to concentrate on finding yourself and creating your own mystery.
~Lykke Li (Swedish musician/model)
Stick to the classics, and you can’t ever go wrong. I see old ladies on the street who have fabulous style and realize it’s because they are probably wearing really classic items that they’ve had for years and years. I think if you find something that suits you, you should just stick to it.
~Alexa Chung
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My fans love me; they’ve made me this sex symbol. I don’t feel I am, but they feel that way. They find me attractive, like I’m a sexy dude. I try my best to make them believe the illusion.
~Romeo Santos
Modeling really helps me find my confidence and break out of my shell.
~Jordyn Woods
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…a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one’s treasure will not win one anyone’s favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone’s camp… Beauty is the word that shall be our first.
~Hans Urs von Balthasar
The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
~J Paul Getty
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~Omeleto: Customer Service (12:07) finding ‘that’ song
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~Omeleto: The Bell Never Rings Again (15:06) litany of imagined dating possibilities, song and dance topping it off
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~Short of the Week: Lost & Found (7:38) worthy yarn to the end
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I couldn’t find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.
~Ferdinand Porsche
Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.
~Sugar Ray Leonard
I chased my dreams. In the end, find what gets you excited and chase it.
~Guion Bluford (1st black into space)
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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
~Oscar Wilde
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
~T E Lawrence (…of Arabia)
Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.
~Charles Lindbergh
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The process of finding the truth may not be a process by which we feel increasingly better and better. It may be a process by which we look at things honestly, sincerely, truthfully, and that may or may not be an easy thing to do.
~Adyashanti
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To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
~Friedrich Nietzsche
I know that in life there will be sickness, devastation, disappointments, heartache ‒ it’s a given. What’s not a given is the way you choose to get through it all.
~Rashida Jones
I’m still coping with my trauma, but coping by trying to find different ways to heal it rather than hide it.
~Clemantine Wamariya
When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.
~A P J Abdul Kalam
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It doesn’t matter what cards you’re dealt. It’s what you do with those cards. Never complain. Just keep pushing forward. Find a positive in anything and just fight for it.
~Baker Mayfield
It’s your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don’t take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver.
~Betty White
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Me personally, I’m a guy who it took a long time to figure out what I’m supposed to be doing. I relate to a lot of that finding oneself a little later in the game, or being thrown a curve later in the game.
~Kurt Sutter
As I get older, I find that wearing bright colors cheers me up.
~Tadashi Shoji
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§ MUSIC:
It’s all about finding the right note at the right place and knowing when to leave well enough alone. And that’s a lifelong quest.
~David Sanborn
I would say that I’m finding my voice in more ways than one.
~Boz Scaggs
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…You can find people. It’s like those acrobatic displays…. Those ones when you stand on top of loads of people in a pyramid. It doesn’t really matter who they are, as long as they’re there and you don’t let them go away without finding someone else.
~Nick Hornby
Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.
~Ace Frehley (KISS)
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My first album was me finding myself and my voice, finding how I sing. I was rolling with the punches because everything was new to me.
~Chris Brown
I felt that with In A Perfect World I was still kind of finding myself ‒ not just as a musician, but also in love and in life.
~Keri Hilson
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Complete strangers can stand silent next to each other in an elevator and not even look each other in the eye. But at a concert, those same strangers could find themselves dancing and singing together like best friends. That’s the power of music.
~LZ Granderson
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I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.
~Judy Collins
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Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
~Dale Carnegie
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Sometimes you’ve got to let everything go ‒ purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything… whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you’ll find that when you’re free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.
~Tina Turner
My favorite experiences have all been finding myself at one point in a timeline and going in both directions, just discovering at my own pace. If I could admit to be playing some kind of long game, and strategizing this, I would.
~Blake Mills (guitarist, multi-etc)
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The essential truth is that sometimes you’re worried that they’ll find out it’s a fluke, that you don’t really have it. You’ve lost the muse or ‒ the worst dread ‒ you never had it at all. I went through all that madness early on.
~Robin Williams
I do not seek. I find.
~Pablo Picasso
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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
~Iris Murdoch
The most important thing about my profession is finding the truth, finding the reality of these shows.
~Shuler Hensley
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My lyrics aren’t offensive. Some people find everything offensive.
~Tyler, The Creator
I don’t listen to what art critics say. I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
~Jean-Michel Basquiat
To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
~Samuel Beckett
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As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people’s ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.
~Amy Poehler
Find like-minded people who are on the same page as you, and then lift each other up.
~Nahnatchka Khan
I find ambition really attractive too ‒ if someone’s good at something they love doing. I want someone who is driven.
~Harry Styles
When we find a purpose that is bigger than ourselves, we become more powerful in our ability to create.
~Jack Delosa
If you want to change the world, find someone to help you paddle.
~William H McRaven
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Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.
~Bob Dylan
It is no small benefit on finding oneself in bed in the dark to go over again in the imagination the main lines of the forms previously studied, or other noteworthy things conceived by ingenious speculation.
~Leonardo da Vinci
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If you want something, work hard for it, go after it. I can’t worry about all the ‘no’s, because I believe there’s a yes, and I’ve been very fortunate to find those in my career and made the most of those opportunities.
~Mara Brock Akil
Do your homework. Find your voice. Be authentic. And then dive in with purpose.
~Julie Foudy
Believe in yourself, and find ways to express yourself, and find the discipline to keep growing.
~Michael Feinstein
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A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
~John Henry Newman
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who had been and still was very dear to me, I caught myself in the act of focusing on her temples and automatically analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death was imposing on her motionless face.
~Claude Monet
Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.
~Junichiro Tanizaki
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In a time when everybody is talking about finding oneself, how do you find yourself? I wanted to do it as literally as possible. How do I prove that I’m concentrating on myself? I prove it by doing something physical. I can bite myself. I can burn the hair off my chest. The goal? Yes, I have a body. I have this thing that people call the self. Maybe I can change the self.
~Vito Acconci (performance artist)
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Life is not about finding yourself. It’s mostly about chocolate.
~Darynda Jones
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Can’t Find My Way Home
~dac10012: Blind Faith introduces the song in Hyde Park, London (5:57)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJJnA6zEcGk
‒or‒
~Ant Varandonis: Eric Clapton ‒ Steve Winwood (5:01) seasoned by the years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L82II1lNjo
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~Charlie Hansen: Seek // Find (4:43) abandoned mining town, discovery, music to suit, in B&W
‒or‒
~Imogen Heap: You Know Where to Find Me (4:57) everywhere
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~Letupita725GD: I’ve Got To Find A Way (1:41) Li’l Pony cartoon confection
‒or‒
~Andrea Vanzo: Find a Melody (2:57) playing piano bareback
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~Daniel Caesar: We Find Love (5:25) in two parts
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~RISE9094: Drake • Find Your Love (3:32) …in a party setting
‒or‒
~A Tribe Called Quest: Find A Way (3:45) …rapping to gyrating bodies
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~Disney IT: Hannah Montana • You’ll always find your way back home (3:44) high energy cuteness
‒or‒
~DisneyMusic VEVO: Milo Manheim, Meg Donnelly • Gotta Find Where I Belong (2:44) teen angst meets identity crisis with good intention
‒or‒
~Nick Jonas: Find You (3:38) desert/beach-side love angst
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~Tracy Lawrence: Find Out Who You’re Friends Are (3:49) …in hard times
‒or‒
~Dylan Scott: Can’t Have Mine ‒ (Find You A Girl) (3:14) good-hearted wishes, but…, country style
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~P I R: Lou Rawls • You’ll Never Find Another Love (3:56) Soul Train classic
‒or‒
~Warmer Music Videos: Pablo Cruise • Love Will Find A Way (3:37) 1978
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~Enigma: Principles Of Lust: Sadeness/Find Love/Sadeness (11:45) low intensity mystery, journey thru moods, images, music
‒or‒
~The Divine Matrix: Enya • So I Could Find My Way (4:26) serene, to garishly pretty, Kinkaid-style garden settings
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~Big Mountain: I Would Find A Way (4:08) island music
‒or‒
~Jah Cure: Never Find (3:28) reggae
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~Christopher Martin: You’ll Never Find (3:59) lush setting, but best friends?
‒or‒
~Mahogany: Teddy Swims • Will It Find Me (3:41) nice song, sweet voice, rough exterior
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~Sherwin Gardner: Find Me Here (2:06) upbeat gratitude for life’s kindness
‒or‒
~R E M: Find The River (3:56) thoughtful, mournful
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~Drew Holdomb & The Neighbors: Find Your People (3:10) friends and neighbors, a celebration
‒or‒
~Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real: Find Yourself (4:10) friends again, different message
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I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.
~Marilyn Monroe
Im working on just finding a boyfriend right now.
~Kylie
Our society puts too much emphasis on finding someone who will love you; our culture focuses too much on being loved and not enough on being a loving person.
~Harold S Kushner
Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.
~D H Lawrence
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Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.
~Loretta Young
You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.
~Anais Nin
Don’t find love, let it find you. It’s called falling in love because you don’t force yourself to fall, you just do.
~Taylor Swift
So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.
~Paulo Coelho
It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
~Bertrand Russell
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We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
~Sam Keen
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
~Thomas Merton
Love may be harder to find in some people, but when they do love you know it must be something marvelous.
~Criss Jami
(Exercise: Altho not found in the original quote, please note how a comma inserted either before, or after, the word ‘you’ in the above sentence would have changed its direction and focus.)
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I dream about finding an exception and finding someone who would make me believe in love and realize that it can work out.
~Taylor Swift
Don’t Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.
~Don Miguel Ruiz
Life is not about making dough or how many movies you can make in a year. It’s about finding someone that you can share things with.
~Freddie Prinze, Jr
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To be content, to find true love, is what essentially drives us all, but if found, would it be recognized?
~Ambrose
We lose ourselves in things we love. We find ourselves there, too.
~Kristin Martz
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Where there is love, there is no question. Where there is a question, there is no love. Then it becomes a business. So love is the totality of the self. My dear folks, if you cannot find yourself, you can never find anybody you want to find.
~Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Don’t worry about finding your soul mate. Find yourself.
~Jason Evert
Go find yourself first
So you can also find me.
~Rumi
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The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.
~Douglas Horton
There’s a difference between lust and passionate love. Lust can’t just creep in. You’ll not find it where true love exists, but it has power enough to shatter the world you’ve worked so hard to create with love, and sometimes, it suddenly changes how you perceived love to begin with. Love then doesn’t live there anymore.
~Jennifer Winget
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No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won’t make you cry.
~Dwight D Eisenhower
Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.
~Bob Marley
Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
~Lord Byron
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Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone ‒ we find it with another.
~Thomas Merton
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
~Maya Angelou
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The feeling of losing oneself in somebody’s arms, yet at the same time finding oneself there, is irreplaceable. Nothing compares to the intensity of that feeling.
~Katarina Witt
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
~Leo Buscaglia
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Warriors fear surrender. They are proud and defiant. They will fight to the death for what they believe in. They will struggle to conquer. Love is not about conquest. The truth is a man can only find true love when he surrenders to it. When he opens his heart to the partner of his soul and says: ‘here it is! the very essence of me! It is yours to nurture or destroy.’
~David Gemmell
The Warrior of the Light is a believer. Because he believes in miracles, miracles begin to happen. Because he is sure that his thoughts can change his life, his life begins to change. Because he is certain that he will find love, love appears.
~Paulo Coelho
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.
~Rumi
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Following your heart means allowing the possibility of finding true love to be stronger than the fear of rejection.
~Susane Colasanti
I’ve never been afraid to fall in love, nor impatient to find it.
~Trevor Noah
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When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
~Henri Nouwen
If you find someone who makes you smile, who checks up on you often to see if you’re okay. Who watches out for you and wants the best for you. Who loves and respects you. Don’t let them go. People like that are hard to find.
~Franz Kafka
If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.
~Princess Diana
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
~Edna St Vincent Millay
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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
~Jean de la Bruyere
It seems that the greatest difficulty is to find the end. Don’t try to find it, it’s there already.
~Sofia Coppola
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Being a big guy, you face certain challenges. Over time, though, women found excuses to find me attractive.
~Rick Ross
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
~Theodor Adorno
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Wherever you find real love, you will also find humility. Remember something: humility is not a weak and timid quality. Too often we feel that humility is a sign of weakness. This is not so. It is the sign of strength and security.
~Kathryn Kuhlman
If you believe in yourself, if you are without fear, you will also be tolerant, non-aggressive and find love.
~Rollo Armstrong
Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‘a quiet conscience makes one strong!’
~Anne Frank
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My husband and I are best of friends first and foremost. We fight like cats and dogs, but never stay mad for long. I was lucky to find him, he is in every way, my soulmate.
~Carnie Wilson
I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
~Rita Rudner
In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.
~Robert Anderson
I believe in the institution loyalty and love, to stay with someone in good and hard times. I don’t think a piece of paper or anything else can force you to do that. For many people get marry is super important, for me, the important thing is finding someone.
~Enrique Iglesias
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
~Anna Louise Strong
It was finally becoming clear to her that love wasn’t about finding someone perfect to marry. Love was about seeing through to the truth of a person, and accepting all their shades of light and dark. Love was an ability.
~Lisa Kleypas
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I’m looking forward to finding someone in life that I can be truly happy with and relate to on all levels ‒ someone I can bounce my stuff off. Right now, though, I’m not searching for that. But I still like knowing it will be out there sometime later.
~Josh Hartnett
When I find the right person, nothing else will matter, but I’m prepared to kiss a lot of frogs.
~Sam Smith
I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today.
~Ken Wilber
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One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
~Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.
~Rita Mae Brown
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I would ask every man and every woman who’s had the blessing of having children, ‘Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love?’ To love someone takes a lot of courage. So how much more is one challenged when the love is of the same sex and the laws say, ‘I forbid you from loving this person’?
~Maya Angelou
Finding someone to share your life with is one of the most important things a human can do and was preached to me by my mother.
~Johnny Weir
Love will find its way through all languages on its own.
~Rumi
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How many times have you said, ‘This is it. I’ve finally found my one true love’? And how many times has the reality turned out differently? Paperback romances and fairy tales promote an ideal of a first and only love, but few of us can claim to have had such uncomplicated good fortune. For most people, the process of finding the perfect partner is one trial and error: breakups, makeups, missed opportunities and misunderstandings. Human love is a fragile creation, and sometimes the smallest thing ‒ the wrong choice of words or a single clumsy gesture ‒ can make love shatter, stall or fade away.
~Haruki Murakami
We all have this fantasy of finding our one true love who’s going to be the perfect fit. It’s just not a reality.
~Ethan Hawke
Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there’s no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
~Wislawa Szymborska
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Love is nothing other than finding the truth.
~Rumi
Take responsibility for finding your one true love
~Bo Sanchez
If finding true love was easy we’d all have a lot more free time.
~John Avery
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You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
~Dr Seuss
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Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.
~Bill Russell
Don’t be silly. Loving is easy. It’s finding someone to love you back that’s hard.
~Sabrina Jeffries
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I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade… And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.
~Ron White
Once you find someone to share your ups and downs, downs are almost as good as ups.
~Robert Breault
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Love that we cannot have is the one that lasts the longest, hurts the deepest and feels the strongest. Love is not finding someone to live with; it’s finding someone you can’t live without.
~Raphael Montanez Ortiz
What we seek in love is finding someone with whom we feel safe to reveal our true self.
~Karen Salmansohn
And you may find somebody kind to help and understand you
Someone who is just like you and needs a gentle hand to guide them along
So maybe I’ll see you there
We can forget all our troubles, forget all our cares, and go
Downtown…
~Petula Clark
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A woman’s heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.
~Max Lucado
You will never find true love until you first learn to love Allah
~Boonaa Mohammed
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Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.
~Tony Robbins
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Finding him was like finding someone I didn’t know I was searching for. He’d come into my life too late, and now was leaving too soon. I remembered him telling he’d give up everything for me. He already had.
~Becca Fitzpatrick
Isn’t this the best part of breakin’ up? Finding someone else you can’t get enough of. Someone who wants to be with you, too.
~Liz Phair (Why Can’t I?)
If you’re having trouble finding someone to play with, why don’t you just go play with yourself.
~Amy Dumas
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Eventually, if you’re lucky in life, you find someone with the same chemical imbalance you have.
~Robert Breault
The girl I find who wants to talk about quantum theory in a bar is the one I want to marry.
~Brandon Boyd
We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love
~Robert Fulghum
Finding someone who’s willing to drown with you creates a situation where you no longer want to drown.
~Marilyn Manson
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My parents never told me I couldn’t do anything, I remember watching superhero movies and saying, ‘I wish I had superpowers.’ And my dad said, ‘You do. You just have to find them.’
~Caleb McLaughlin
When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he’d learned in three years.
~Frank Butler
Pinocchio, spurred on by the hope of finding his father and of being in time to save him, swam all night long.
~Carlo Collodi
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
~Honore de Balzac
We define family in many different ways: not just by blood but by people with whom we find a common ground and a common bond.
~Adrienne C Moore
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You find inspiration everywhere. The best inspiration is the people you grew up with. Nobody else knows about you than when you were just regular, everyday people. That’s where most of it comes from.
~Bray Wyatt
It is when we are most lost that we sometimes find our truest friends.
~Cynthia Rylant
You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that’s so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end.
~Bob Marley
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island… to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
~Baltasar Gracian
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It is important to find a place where you feel trust, you feel belonging and stability.
~Bojan Krkic
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
~George A Moore
Seeing my friends succeed, find love, or just feeling content makes me feel unconditionally happy.
~Troian Bellisario
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The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the miraculous also.
~Fyodor Dostoevsky
If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.
~Alan Watts
I think the ambiguity of similarity and difference is very powerful… You force the mind, which is always comparing and contrasting, to stumble … That ambiguity is very powerful. One is getting lost and refinding oneself.
~David Hockney
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The middle way is a view of life that avoids the extreme of misguided grasping born of believing there is something we can find, or buy, or cling to that will not change. And it avoids the despair and nihilism born from the mistaken belief that nothing matters, that all is meaningless.
~Sharon Salzberg
Your discovery, as best as I can determine, is that there is an alternative which no one has hit upon. It is that one finding oneself in one of life’s critical situations need not after all respond in one of the traditional ways. No. One may simply default. Pass. Do as one pleases, shrug, turn on one’s heel and leave. Exit. Why after all need one act humanly?
~Walker Percy
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Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure… Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
~Shunryu Suzuki
Isn’t it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.
~Vaclav Havel
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Satyagraha is the pursuit of truth. My grandfather believed that truth should be the cornerstone of everybody’s life and that we must dedicate our lives to pursuing truth, to finding out the truth in our lives. And so his entire philosophy was the philosophy of life.
~Arun Manilal Gandhi
Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.
~Horace Mann
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I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
~Maya Angelou
Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You’ll find what you need to furnish it ‒ memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.
~Tad Williams
It’s not about finding a home so much as finding yourself.
~Jason Behr
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Surround yourself with people who support you. Find champions.
~Sarah Gavron
The best thing to do when you find yourself in a hurting or vulnerable place is to surround yourself with the strongest, finest, most positive people you know.
~Kristin Armstrong
Find people who love you unconditionally, surround yourself with them, and bring them the same level of intensity.
~Sean Stephenson
You really don’t find too many good people. You really don’t. Keep them around.
~Playboi Carti
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Find people who will make you better.
~Michelle Obama
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
~W H Auden
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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
~Samuel Johnson
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
~Robert Louis Stevenson
A connection should be natural. Just be yourself, and you will find someone who likes you for exactly what you are.
~BJ the Chicago Kid
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To find a friend one must close one eye ‒ to keep him, two.
~Norman Douglas
You find out who your real friends are when you’re involved in a scandal.
~Elizabeth Taylor
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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.
~Joseph Brodsky
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Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.
~Elizabeth I
A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
~Gilbert K Chesterton
A man finds love and is satisfied. A woman finds love and insists on turning it into happiness.
~Robert Breault
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Nothing is worse than a beautiful girl fishing for compliments by saying how gross she is. On the flip side, I find genuine humility and modesty attractive.
~Chris Evans
I’ve come to the conclusion that beautiful women in the West aren’t comfortable finding strength in their femininity. They want to do masculine-oriented things to establish their femininity. It’s a contradiction.
~Wesley Snipes
It’s a life’s journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.
~Mariska Hargitay
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“Plaza de la Soledad” is a documentary about Carmen, Lety, Raquel and Esther, four strong women ‒ middle-aged and older ‒ who want to break a vicious circle that began with abuse and abandonment suffered from an early age. They simply want to have a better life. The film follows their quest to find true love and their capacity to transform themselves.
~Maya Goded
A conviction that you are a daughter of God gives you a feeling of comfort in your self-worth. It means that you can find strength… A woman can and must have an identity and feel useful, valued, and needed whether she is single or married. She must feel that she can do something for someone else that no one else ever born can do
~James E Faust
Every character that I play, even if it’s a homemaker, there is an inherent, innate strength in her ‒ you can find strength in every facet of a female personality. It doesn’t just come from the physical strength of a woman.
~Priyanka Chopra
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Some of us will never ever find true love. Take, for instance me. And I’m pretty sure that guy right there. And that lady with the sideburns. And basically everybody at table nine.
~Adam Sandler
Money won’t make you happy… but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
~Zig Ziglar
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
~Lana Turner
Drag a $100 bill through a trailer camp and there’s no telling what you will find.
~James Carville
Instead of getting married again, I’m going to find a woman I don’t like and just give her a house.
~Rod Stewart
My cousin’s gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock.
~Rodney Dangerfield
A hard man is good to find.
~Mae West
Some stalkers are quite benign, but finding someone in your garden at three o’clock in the morning with a meat cleaver and a hard-on can’t be much fun.
~Daniel Craig
A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
~Carl Reiner
I’m going to get an MRI to find out whether I have claustrophobia.
~Steven Wright
The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn’t for any religious reasons. They couldn’t find three wise men and a virgin.
~Jay Leno
If at first you don’t succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
~William Lyon Phelps
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We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty.
~Jonathan Sacks
That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
~William Wordsworth
When I see nothing annihilated, and not even a drop of water wasted, I cannot suspect the annihilation of souls Thus finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist; with all the inconveniences human life is liable to, I shall not object to a new edition of mine; hoping, however, that the errata of the last may be corrected.
~Benjamin Franklin
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Before you find out who you are, you have to figure out who you aren’t.
~Iyanla Vanzant
But anyone can begin. It was the part with all the promise, the potential, the things I loved. More and more, though, I was finding myself wanting to find out what happened in the end.
~Sarah Dessen
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It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.
~Ella Maillart
In the end you don’t so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.
~Robert Brault
Whatever it takes to find the real you, don’t be daunted if the rest of the world looks on in shock.
~Stephen Richards
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
~C S Lewis
It’s a long old road, but I know I’m gonna find the end.
~Bessie Smith
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Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are. We are all hungry for this other silence. It is hard to find. In its presence we can remember something beyond the moment, a strength on which to build a life. Silence is a place of great power and healing.
~Rachel Naomi Remen
I am not sure what lonliness is,” she said. “If it is not literally being solitary, is it the fear of solitude, of being alone with oneself? I feel no such fear. I like being alone.” “What do you fear then?” he asked her. She glanced briefly at him and smiled, a fragile expression that spoke for itself even before she found words. “Never finding myself again.”
~Mary Balogh
Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don’t find themselves at all.
~Rollo May
It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.
~Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
~Henry David Thoreau
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Glow
© Silvia Trujillo
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He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.
~Franz Kafka
For me, Pemako* symbolizes the place that you find only when your journey has changed you into the person who can finally recognize it — meandering homeward, finding without looking.
~Dave Royer
When your world falls apart and you’re left with just yourself, you’re forced to discover who you are without all the beliefs, expectations, views, & self-image provided by some teacher or system. The calculating mind gives way to the intuitive mind, Knowing without Thinking.
~Gabrielle Roth
*Hidden Falls, in Tsanpo Gorge, Tibetan Himalayas, deepest canyon on Earth; seen by one outsider only
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A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.
~John Steinbeck
Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.
~Ellen DeGeneres
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
~Isaac Asimov
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To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
~Plutarch
Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.
~Mason Cooley
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It seems that we’re better at finding someone to blame for our problems than we are at finding creative solutions to fix them.
~Neil deGrasse Tyson
You can’t grow and learn if your focus is on finding someone else to blame instead of looking at your own shortcomings.
~John C Maxwell
All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you…
~Casey Stengel
Creatures which, lacking mankind’s superior brain power, did not concern themselves with finding someone to blame, and instead tried to find someone to eat.
~Terry Pratchett
I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much rather eat potato chips on the sidewalk.
~Werner Herzog
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In tragedy, it’s hard to find a good resolution; it’s not black and white: it’s a big fog of gray.
~Paul Dano
Life isn’t black and white. It’s a million gray areas, don’t you find?
~Ridley Scott
I don’t find anything black and white; I find grey in every person, and that is what excites me.
~Vetrimaaran
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
~Cesare Pavese
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I was once referred to in a Kirkus review as a “northern Michigan version of Andre Dubus.” My editor called me after the review came out and asked if I was okay with that. What part? I wondered. Finding myself in the same sentence with Andre Dubus? What could be better than that? Or perhaps ‒ and more likely, my editor meant being pigeonholed as a writer of this remote region “mostly ignored by the rest of the world,” as Jim Harrison says.
~Jack Driscoll
I look out this window and think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and the birds and everything else and I am part of it. I didn’t ask to be put here. I’ve been lucky finding myself here.
~Morris West
Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.
~Angelina Jolie
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I actually enjoyed getting lost in Japan’s backroads, finding myself in a wasabi farm.
~Travis Rice
I love Rome and the way that you can wander around and find something interesting around every street corner. You can smell the history.
~Jonathan Agnew
I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
~Edmonia Lewis
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@Writers Platform
The heart and soul of good writing is research; you should write not what you know but what you can find out about.
~Robert J Sawyer
A big part of finding the right resources is knowing what to look for and what to avoid.
~Matthew Lesko
I build my stories character-first, and so whether it’s a monster or a ghost or a serial killer, the fear of something dark interrupting life has just always been something that matters to me as a storyteller, or what I keep finding myself drawn back to.
~Bryan Bertino
I noticed the different kids were always put down by other people and it would cause them to become almost violent with themselves. It’s not really necessary; there’s a way to find strength in yourself, and for me it was writing. That was sort of my release and my escape, so the term ‘Knives and Pens’ to me was like a choice. You can either create, or become violent, and maybe go down a dark road.
~Andy Biersack
I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
~M Night Shyamalan
The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers.
~Ayrton Senna (motorsports)
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
~Socrates
You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what’s in your heart.
~Carol Ann Duffy
Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.
~Sigmund Freud
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I made a big conscious decision in my life when I was writing all these big action movies and doing different kind of fare but very proud of it, I was finding myself less and less passionate about doing it.
~Ric Roman Waugh
The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
~Gore Vidal
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I often hear people say that they read to escape reality, but I believe that what they’re really doing is reading to find reason for hope, to find strength. While a bad book leaves readers with a sense of hopelessness and despair, a good novel, through stories of values realized, of wrongs righted, can bring to readers a connection to the wonder of life. A good novel shows how life can and ought to be lived. It not only entertains but energizes and uplifts readers.
~Terry Goodkind
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They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited ‘first chapters’. I have indeed written many.
~J R R Tolkien
I guess there’s just a part of me that’s not very enthusiastic about finding myself ten years from now halfway through a story that may or may not be any good.
~Adrian Tomine
You can always find a distraction if you’re looking for one.
~Tom Kite
I have suffered, like other writers, from indolence, irresolution, distaste to my work, absence of ‘inspiration,’ and all that: but I have also found that sitting down, however reluctantly, with the pen in my hand, I have never worked for one quarter of an hour without finding myself in full train.
~Harriet Martineau
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I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
~Marlene Dietrich
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I remember thinking about how fun it would be to be a reporter. I had a dream, when I was little, to become a police officer and a crime investigator. It depends on what kind of stories you’re reporting, but it’s very similar. You’re finding out the truth.
~Katia Winter
I got in journalism for any number of reasons, not least because it’s so much fun. Journalism should be in the business of putting pressure on power, finding out the truth, of shining a light on injustice, of, when appropriate, being amusing and entertaining ‒ it’s a complicated and varied beast, journalism.
~David Remnick
What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down ‒ literally or otherwise.
~Robert Scheer
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If you look hard enough, you’ll find something good about me and say it.
~Jimmy Swaggart
Stop saying these negative things about yourself. Look in the mirror and find something about yourself that’s positive and celebrate that!
~Tyra Banks
When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it’s difficult to find your own identity.
~Sia
You don’t need validation from other people. You’ve gotta find it within yourself and sit in it and roll with it.
~Dawn Richard
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Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you’re going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.
~Anne Lamott
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
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Prewritten Prompt: find
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I’ll do my best to always put God and neighbor ahead of ego, but I want to find myself, and if finding myself means losing my ego self, I’ll go there.
~Barbara Brown Taylor
Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
~Catherine Of Siena
I am not a conventionally religious man, but in the wilderness I have come closest to finding myself and knowing the universe and accepting God ‒ by which I mean accepting all that I don’t know.
~Bob Brown
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If the whole universe can be found in our own body and mind, this is where we need to make our inquires. We all have the answers within ourselves, we just have not got in touch with them yet. The potential of finding the truth within requires faith in ourselves.
~Ayya Khema
What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian?
~Clifford D Simak
Really, it is the Lord who carries the cross, for He knows how to make the soul content with little or no consolation and always to find strength in the words…”Thy will be done.”
~Rose Philippine Duchesne
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The devil is no fool. He can get people feeling about heaven the way they ought to feel about hell. He can make them fear the means of grace the way they do not fear sin. And he does so, not by light but by obscurity, not by realities but by shadows; not by clarity and substance, but by dreams and the creatures of psychosis. And men are so poor in intellect that a few cold chills down their spine will be enough to keep them from ever finding out the truth about anything.
~Thomas Merton
A Godly leader … finds strength by realizing his weakness
finds authority by being under authority
finds direction by laying down his plans
finds vision by seeing the needs of others
finds credibility by being an example
finds loyalty by expressing compassion
finds honor by being faithful
finds greatness by being a servant
~Roy Lessin
Be generous to the poor orphans and those in need. The man to whom our Lord has been liberal ought not to be stingy. We shall one day find in Heaven as much rest and joy as we ourselves have dispensed in this life.
~Saint Ignatius
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.
~Blaise Pascal
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The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.
~Thomas Merton
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature ‒ trees, flowers, grass ‒ grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.
~Mother Teresa
A spirit of restlessness and resistance can never wait, but one who believes he is loved with an everlasting love, and knows that underneath are the everlasting arms, will find strength and peace.
~Elisabeth Elliot
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You know, the Bible is so clear. Go to Genesis chapter nine and you will find the death penalty clearly stated in Genesis chapter nine… God ordains the death penalty!
~Rafael Cruz
I believe that God knows what each of us wants and needs. It’s not necessary for us to make it to church on Sunday to reach Him. You can find Him anyplace. And if that sounds heretical, my source is pretty good: Matthew, Five to Seven, The Sermon on the Mount.
~Frank Sinatra
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
~Desmond Tutu
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You can hide from the devil, but he’ll always find you.
~Allen Iverson
Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
~St Jerome
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I feel like if you’re a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.
~Lady Gaga
Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.
~Swami Vivekananda
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May we have communion with God in the secret of our hearts, and find Him to be to us as a little sanctuary.
~Charles Spurgeon
God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you’re able to pay off your house. That’s God shifting things in your favor.
~Joel Osteen
I have a strong belief in God… I find religion to be a very personal thing… I am also very spiritual.
~Sela Ward
There is a comfort in rituals, and rituals provide a framework for stability when you are trying to find answers.
~Deborah Norville
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What is magic? In the deepest sense, magic is an experience. It’s the experience of finding oneself alive within a world that is itself alive. It is the experience of contact and communication between oneself and something that is profoundly different from oneself: a swallow, a frog, a spider weaving its web.
~David Abram
My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth’s loveliness.
~Michelangelo
He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
~John Burroughs
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
~John Muir
We can find Nature outside us only if we have first learned to know her within us. What is akin to her within us must be our guide. This marks out our path of enquiry.
~Rudolf Steiner
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Know where to find the sunrise and sunset times and note how the sky looks at those times, at least once.
~Marilyn vos Savant
I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
~Barbara McClintock
You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.
~Saint Bernard
Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.
~L Wolfe Gilbert
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I’m finding myself very comfortable talking to medical audiences, and proving to them that underlying the material fields of the universe are force fields.
~Deepak Chopra
At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.
~Queen Elizabeth II
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Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
~Carl Sagan
I’m really hopeful about the future of space exploration and human spaceflight. Civilization as we know it has been defined by exploration. You know, we need to go off and find out what’s around the next corner and what’s just beyond what we already know. It’s part of our being; it’s part of our moral fiber to go off and explore.
~Alan G Poindexter
There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.
~Elon Musk
I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.
~Ingmar Bergman
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Everything we do, every thought we’ve ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries, and it seems the more we probe its secrets, the more surprises we find.
~Neil deGrasse Tyson
The spiral in a snail’s shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it’s also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It’s the same ratio that you’ll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world.
~Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.
~Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.
~Niels Bohr
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You only find what you are looking for, really, if the truth be known.
~Mary Leakey (anthropologist)
Just because we can’t find a solution it doesn’t mean that there isn’t one.
~Andrew Wiles (mathematician)
I used to be enamored of object-oriented programming. I’m now finding myself leaning toward believing that it is a plot designed to destroy joy.
~Eric Allman
It is very unfair, and on social media you have all these keyboard warriors who just type something, and they never say it to my face. That’s very weak I find.
~Max Verstappen
Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it’s digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules ‒ not just for governments but for private companies.
~Bill Gates
We have to find places that we protect away from government so that we can all be the unique and interesting and, in my case, somewhat deviant people we’d like to be.
~Alexander Karp (data mining/analytics)
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If you are curious, you’ll find the puzzles around you. If you are determined, you will solve them.
~Erno Rubik
I’m curious. Period. I find everything interesting. Real life. Fake life. Objects. Flowers. Cats. But mostly people. If you keep your eyes open and your mind open, everything can be interesting.
~Agnes Varda
When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.
~Walt Disney
I was awfully curious to find out why I didn’t go insane.
~Abraham Maslo
Curiosity is the essence of human existence. ‘Who are we? Where are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?’… I don’t know. I don’t have any answers to those questions. I don’t know what’s over there around the corner. But I want to find out.
~Gene Cernan (astronaut)
Take all the courses in your curriculum. Do the research. Ask questions. Find someone doing what you are interested in! Be curious!
~Katherine Johnson
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With the education I had, all I could do was work as a burro, in whatever I could find: shoeshine boy, janitor, dishwasher, waiter, bartender, cashier, bricklayer, painter.
~Vicente Fernandez (Mexican singer/actor)
You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
~Arthur Ashe
The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
~Voltaire
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
~Brian Tracy
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We live in a society that wants to label you with a color, sexuality, religion, or ethnicity. It divides us, but it also allows us to find pride in our identity.
~Logan Browning
I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.
~Ossie Davis
If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a billion dollars.
~Sam Phillips
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We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.
~Cecil Rhodes
No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That’s a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything.
~Toni Morrison
Racism keeps people who are being managed from finding out the truth through contact with each other.
~Shirley Chisholm
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§ The Exercise:
her eyes on the horizon #18
apprenticed to miss liberty
the statue? your question
your states once a bastion
one nation under god
no, to answer your question
but yes, i miss liberty
find our union an unlearned lesson
don’t tread on me, past tense: trod
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once upon a time
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pro•verbs
nothing pretends
like a platitude
nothing misapprehends
like bad attitudes
judge other worlds
with great latitude
find for kindness instead
of true rectitude
endings in pleasure
treasured with gratitude
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the difference
structure vs sculpture
fog bank vs cloud
fondness and passion
thinking and out-loud
wishing and doing
jingo vs proud
glowing warmth of a fireplace
against history’s furnace
a new present for the crowds
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Preparing for a return to Oregon’s Rogue Valley, with the uncertainties ahead, it will take time before work on the Post & Review can resume. This editor has resolved not to waste time butting heads with current visions of empire, but is offering this short story with a different view of differences.
Bartok and The Bard At The Bar-None Saloon
…also the story that gave BarTalk his name in There.com
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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes
We’re never so vulnerable than when we trust someone ‒ but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
~Walter Anderson
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
~Ernest Hemingway
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I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it ‒ but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
If you’re serious about changing your life, you’ll find a way. If you’re not, you’ll find an excuse.
~Jen Sincero
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We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.
~Marcel Proust
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.
~Marcel Pagnol
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I used to have all these plans and think ‘Ah, I have my whole life figured out’, but then I realized no matter how much I plan: life happens! So I find myself living day to day trying to do my best, embracing every moment as a learning opportunity and chance to get to know myself a little more.
~Q’orianka Kilcher
In order to find yourself, who you really are, you got to be with yourself; you got to hang out with yourself.
~Post Malone
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If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
~C S Lewis
Someday, somewhere – anywhere, unfailingly, you’ll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.
~Pablo Neruda
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It’s important to find your tribe.
~RuPaul
The more you embrace the weird crazy things about you, the more you find your tribe.
~Jinkx Monsoon
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I will say a lot of dancers do such beautiful things for their body and then they smoke a cigarette. I’ve never been a smoker, but I realized after taking yoga . . . in ballet you’re not encouraged to do a lot of breathing. I think in a weird way, a lot of dancers find relief in actually breathing.
~Elizabeth Berkley
I used to smoke two packs a day and I just hate being a nonsmoker… but I will never consider myself a nonsmoker because I always find smokers the most interesting people at the table.
~Michelle Pfeiffer
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I will have faith that, though I might not understand why adversity happens, by my conscious choice I can find strength, compassion, and grace through my trials.
~Joe Tye
Sometimes you find your strongest faith in the darkest corners.
~Margo Price
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Basically, if you go looking for trouble, it’ll come find you.
~Estelle
In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.
~Jiddu Krishnamurti
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First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
~Amos Bronson Alcott
He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.
~Roy L Smith
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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
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.
~Henry Ford
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
~Henry David Thoreau
Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.
~Ray Bradbury
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We all do ‘do, re, mi,’ but you have got to find the other notes yourself.
~Louis Armstrong
Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can have a word with him?
~Zhuangzi
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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
Either I will find a way, or I will make one.
~Philip Sidney
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Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along.
~Terry Pratchett
Angels are like diamonds. They can’t be made, you have to find them. Each one is unique.
~Jaclyn Smith
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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
~Sylvia Plath
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t.
~Richard Bach
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Daring to me is having courage; it’s a daily meditation to take breath and find strength.
~Uma Thurman
Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out
~Katherine Dunham
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The best way to find out whether you’re on the right path? Stop looking at the path.
~Marcus Buckingham
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
~Dag Hammarskjold
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You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
~Golda Meir
Ghosts are all around us. Look for them, and you will find them.
~Ruskin Bond
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If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
~Lucretius
After an eternity of seeking, the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and grief. I was born to see.
~Joy Page (comma added for clarity ~Ed Note)
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
~Aristotle
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
~Emily Dickinson
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Do what you will while you’re able, find what it is that you seek.
~Xavier Rudd
Never be so focused on what you’re looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.
~Ann Patchett
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When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.
~Joyce Meyer
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
~Dale Carnegie
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We will all, at some point in our lives, fall. Every single one of us. We shouldn’t spend our time trying to avoid falling. We should spend it finding someone who will help us up!
~Nicole Williams
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.
~Richard M Nixon
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I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
~Miles Davis
Theoretically there is no absolute proof that one’s awakening in the morning (the finding oneself again in the saddle of one’s personality) is not really a quite unprecedented event, a perfectly original birth.
~Vladimir Nabokov
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Every day is a new day, and you’ll never be able to find happiness if you don’t move on.
~Carrie Underwood
This is the part of us that makes our brief, improbable little lives worth living: the ability to reach through our own isolation and find strength, and comfort, and warmth for and in each other. This is what human beings do. This is what we live for, the way horses live to run.
~Martha Beck
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It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‘try to be a little kinder.’
~Aldous Huxley
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
~Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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