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May you find great value in these Finding quotes and sayings.
The true delight is in the finding out,
rather than in the knowing.
- Isaac Asimov
Related topics: Wisdom
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Boerne
We learn more by looking for the answer
to a question and not finding it
than we do from learning the answer itself.
- Lloyd Alexander
It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
We come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Angelina Jolie
Life isn't about finding yourself.
Life is about creating yourself.
- George Bernard Shaw
There is no rule more invariable than that
we are paid for our suspicions
by finding what we suspect.
- Henry David Thoreau
Are you feeling stressed and upset?
If so, you are worrying about tomorrow.
Events that have already occurred may cause you regret,
but they only appear to cause worry.
If you just lost your job, you are not worrying about losing your job -
that already happened.
You are worrying about paying your bills and finding a new job.
Those are worries about tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have treated many hundreds of patients.
Among those in the second half of life -
that is to say, over 35 -
there has not been one whose problem in the last resort
was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.
- Carl Jung
A woman under stress is not immediately concerned
with finding solutions to her problems
but rather seeks relief
by expressing herself and being understood.
- John Gray
We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
- Henry David Thoreau
One of the annoying things about believing in free will
and individual responsibility is the difficulty
of finding somebody to blame your problems on.
And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable
how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.
- P. J. O'Rourke
Don't die with your music still inside you.
Listen to your intuitive inner voice
and find what passion stirs your soul.
- Wayne Dyer
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
When we try to pick out anything by itself,
we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
- John Muir
Believe those who are seeking the truth.
Doubt those who find it.
- Andre Gide
What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we open a quarrel between past and present,
we shall find that we have lost the future.
- Winston Churchill
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I find that I can't accept what is happening,
I turn my attention to accepting my non-acceptance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
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
I find hope in the darkest of days,
and focus in the brightest.
I do not judge the universe.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished:
If you're alive, it isn't.
- Richard Bach
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
Often, we get stuck on a question
for which we can't find an acceptable answer.
That is a good time to consider asking a different question.
Every question is based on some assumptions -
usually invisible assumptions that we don't see, unless we go looking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you look for the bad in people
expecting to find it, you surely will.
- Abraham Lincoln
Many people know so little about what
is beyond their short range of experience.
They look within themselves - and find nothing!
Therefore they conclude that there
is nothing outside themselves either.
- Helen Keller
The secret of success is to find a need and fill it,
to find a hurt and heal it,
to find somebody with a problem
and offer to help solve it.
- Robert H. Schuller
While it is natural to feel some degree of
need for the approval of others, be careful.
If you find yourself unwilling to
take actions that others disapprove of,
you have lost control of your own life
and have given your destiny to others.
An excessive need-for-approval
is a sign of low self-esteem,
and in severe cases, a condition termed co-dependency.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Go within every day and find the inner strength
so that the world will not blow your candle out.
- Katherine Dunham
If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.
- Carl Lewis
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
Find a time and place of solitude.
Look into the distance, and into the future.
Visualize the tomorrow you are going to build -
and begin to build that tomorrow, today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We should not let our response to
the people who disagree with us
be dictated by what they say about us
or even how they treat people we care for.
There has to be a chance that we can find love.
- William J. Clinton
We will either find a way or make one.
- Hannibal
Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job,
tell 'em, Certainly I Can. -
and get busy and find out how to do it.
- Theodore Roosevelt
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
If you are possessed by an idea,
you will find it expressed everywhere,
you even smell it.
- Thomas Mann
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves
come when life seems most challenging.
- Joseph Campbell
Three Rules of Work:
Out of clutter find simplicity;
From discord find harmony;
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein
If we will be quiet and ready enough,
we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
- Henry David Thoreau
I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Just start dancing and the band will find you.
- Tama Kieves
What old people say you cannot do,
you try and find that you can.
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
You must live in the present,
launch yourself on every wave,
find your eternity in each moment.
- Henry David Thoreau
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.
For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough
to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment
comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command
and find that they control their own time,
when they learn their own voice and authority.
- Theodore H. White
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.
I don't believe in circumstances.
The people who get on in the 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
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
Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself.
You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
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
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss
at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
- Honore de Balzac
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
- Anonymous
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
I Find A Magical White Bunny In Every Rabbit Hole.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
No matter what happens, someone will find a way
to take it too seriously.
- Dave Barry
I find that he is happiest
of whom the world says least, good or bad.
- Thomas Jefferson
If a man does not make new acquaintances
as he advances through life,
he will soon find himself alone.
A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase:
if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
- C. P. Snow
Patience is an ever present alternative
to the mind's endemic restlessness and impatience.
Scratch the surface of impatience and what you will find
lying beneath it, subtly or not so subtly, is anger.
It's the strong energy of not wanting things to be the way they are
and blaming someone (often yourself) or something for it.
This doesn't mean you can't hurry when you have to.
It is possible even to hurry patiently, mindfully,
moving fast because you have chosen to.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous
For as long as I can remember, I've been searching for something,
some reason why we're here. What are we doing here? Who are we?
If this is a chance to find out
even just a little part of that answer...
I don't know, I think it's worth a human life. Don't you?
- the Jodie Foster movie Contact (1997)
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual
bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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