Finding Yourself Quotes - Page 7

If you find yourself with a weakness, attack it... don't develop a technique that avoids your weaknesses.

You wish for something, you've wanted it for years, and you're sure you want it, as long as you know you can't have it. But if all at once it looks as though your wish might come true, you suddenly find yourself wishing you had never wished for any such thing.

If you are on an honest journey to find yourself, you'll find God.

At first you might find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred space and use it, eventually something will happen. Your sacred space is where you find yourself again and again.

If you find yourself perplexed, or perhaps in a quandary, remember that human growth is perpendicular. We grow up and we grow forward, we just have to keep on growing steadily in both ways.

No matter how carefully you plan it, there are times when you suddenly find yourself a committee of one, in charge of lifting the entire world with a lever.

Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, you will presently find yourself without either law or religion.

When you make a decision to write according to a set schedule and really stick to it, you find yourself writing very fast. At least I do.

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.

For most men, life is a search for the proper Manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

I think life goes through a cycle of losing and refinding yourself all the time. Everyone has disappointments all the time, some of them pretty small, some of them pretty big.

There's a point where you find yourself tiptoeing as an artist, and then you know that you're in the wrong place.

Do you ever find yourself bursting into a sort of lunatic laughter at the sheer prettiness of things?

Funny, I'd forgotten that what comes to you when you take a psychedelic is not always a revelation of something new and startling; you're more liable to find yourself reminded of simple things you know and forgot you knew - seeing them freshly - old, basic truths that long ago became cliches, so you stopped paying attention to them.

If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it.

Sometimes I've drawn on autobiographical material, maybe situations that I've felt trapped by, and turned them into something else, but in a very superficial way. When you find yourself thinking and worrying about certain things they become ridiculous.

My life is quite physical anyway. When you are three-foot-six you kind of have to climb stuff now and again, and you find yourself in quite precarious situations just to manage in what is quite a big world.

Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.

When you first start out don't set yourself a lofty goal of sitting down to meditate for twenty minutes. Aim instead for ten minutes or even five minutes - utilizing those few moments when you find yourself willing or even desiring just to take a break from the daily grind to observe your mind rather than drifting off into daydreams.

Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.

There is no way to find yourself until you discover how utterly to lose yourself.

You can't take up golf on a whim and find yourself competing against Tiger Woods in the Masters six months later.

Francis [Collins] keeps saying things like "From the perspective of a believer." Once you buy into the position of faith, then suddenly you find yourself losing all of your natural skepticism and your scientific - really scientific - credibility. I'm sorry to be so blunt.

If you find yourself stuck in the middle there is only one way to go, forward.

Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves...At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer.