Finding Yourself Quotes (page 3)

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• time
• reflection
• reflect

Whenever you find yourself on the side of he majority, it is time to pause and reflect Mark Twain

• past
• thoughts
• training

So when you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there's always madness. Madness is the emergency exit. Alan Moore

• long
• longs
• findings

As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve. Suzanne Collins

• saying
• powerful
• power words

Words are the litmus paper of the minds. If you find yourself in the power of someone who will use the word "commence" in cold blood, go somewhere else very quickly. But if they say "Enter", don't stop to pack. Terry Prachett

• short
• walking
• struck

I was struck with a bolt of distilled horror like I have never known before. Far worse than suddenly finding yourself walking through a prison cafeteria wearing Daisy Duke shorts and a Jane Fonda headband. Augusten Burroughs

• self
• fear
• leveled

Forget the self and you will fear nothing, in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be. Carlos Castaneda

• look
• small
• good

Small, bluish tubers that don't look like much but boiled or baked are as good as any patato. 'Katniss,' I said aloud. It's the plant I was named for. And I heard my father's voice joking, 'As long as you can find yourself, you'll never starve. Suzanne Collins

• inspirational
• life
• your life

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

• time
• old
• wellness

When you're young, you always feel that life hasn't yet begun -- that "life" is always scheduled to begin next week, next month, next year, after the holidays -- whenever. But then suddenly you're old and the scheduled life didn't arrive. You find yourself asking, 'Well then, exactly what was it I was having -- that interlude -- the scrambly madness -- all that time I had before? Doug Coupland

• war
• society
• conscience

Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society. James Baldwin

• change
• destiny
• search

Often in the search for your destiny you will find yourself obliged to change direction Paulo Coelho

• fighting
• tactic
• findings

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

• dig
• finds
• findings

When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging. Will Rogers

• choices
• bad
• new

If you find yourself imitating another writer, that doesn't have to be a bad thing, especially if you are a young or a new writer. However, you should be conscious of exactly how you are imitating him - word choice, sentence structure, motifs? - and think about why you're doing it. Poppy Z. Brite

• moving
• waiting
• helpful

Don't wait for the right answer and the golden path to present themselves. This is precisely why you're stuck. Starting without seeing the end is difficult, so we often wait until we see the end, scanning relentlessly for the right way, the best way and the perfect way. The way to get unstuck is to start down the wrong path, right now. Step by step, page by page, interaction by interaction. As you start moving, you can't help but improve, can't help but incrementally find yourself getting... Seth Godin