Finding Your Place Quotes

#1. Finding your place as an artist is the hardest thing. You come out of college with what feels like a Mickey Mouse degree that qualifies you for nothing in the real world.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

#2. He clearly regarded finding the glove compartment locked now as a disappointing development. Like arriving someplace for dinner, assuming you'd be welcome, and finding your place setting in the cupboard.

Richard Russo

#3. The orphan in children's literature allows the child protagonist to move the story forward themselves. I think that, however happy a family, every intelligent child thinks: 'How did I come to be born to these parents?' - it is about finding your place in the world.

Brian Selznick

#4. It's about finding your place at the table and knowing there will always be enough to fill your plate.

Kathryn Kennish

#5. My love life since I moved to New York from Chicago has been like a desert. I've had tiny little interactions of love, like finding shallow pools of water to drink from, and then I've moved on, hoping that I've stored enough love and affection and excitement to get me to the next place.

Jami Attenberg

#6. I've learnt that love isn't about our place at the centre of it, but about finding the generosity to allow those we care about to discover happiness wherever they so choose, with whomever they so desire , even if - for whatever reason - that isn't with us.

Hannah Beckerman

#7. You can do everything right and still feel out of place.

Joyce Rachelle

#8. Language is a finding-place not a hiding place.

Jeanette Winterson

#9. There are a bunch of places to stay in Des Moines, but I'd suggest finding a place on the west side of town. It's a great urban area that has a lot to offer tourists.

Zach Johnson

#10. Finding one's place in the world is never easy.
Have courage and be true to who you are.
Remember, those who dare to be different are
Often the ones who change the world.

Christopher Paolini

#11. Your qualification for finding a place to belong is enthusiasm and passion, and I think that's a beautiful thing. No one should feel lonely or embarrassed about liking something.

Felicia Day

#12. These masked men were going to bring me to a cleaner place, where things were more sharply distinguished from one another and where I would finally have the space to figure out who I was without other people nudging me all the time into shapes they thought I should have.

Alexandra Kleeman

#13. Finding something spherical in space indicates that you have found a place where gravity has taken over.

Mike Brown

#14. The crowd had stared at him and given up angrily, finding no satisfaction. He did not look crushed and he did not look defiant. He looked impersonal and calm. He was not like a public figure in a public place; he was like a man alone in his own room, listening to the radio.

Ayn Rand

#15. Sometimes the opportunity doesn't involve going to a new place; it means finding a new and previously unrecognized opportunity in the old place.

John Ortberg

#16. People usually find a good place for stray dogs, or for the elderly when they can no longer go up stairs or use a can opener. Finding a good place for a kid seems like a much bigger challenge.

Holly Goldberg Sloan

#17. I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!

Camille Pissarro

#18. Absently, she wondered if finding one's place in the world always felt like this, as if an audible click could be heard

Melissa Marr

#19. If you're lucky like me, your relationship with your brother has resolved itself on the peaceful side of the fence and has stayed there. But if you're someone who's got a family that's all fractured and finding it hard to relate, that's a very sad place to be.

Tom Hardy

#20. It is nice finding that place where you can just go and relax.

Moises Arias

#21. For so many years, Lumikki had needed to find hiding places because she was afraid. Finding secret nooks and safe havens was a lifeline. These days, it wasn't so much about fear as a desire to find some room just for her in a place that was shared by everyone.

Salla Simukka

#22. Maybe his heart is searching for and not finding the place it used to live. I understand that because mine is searching and not finding too.

Angela Johnson

#23. I've been dropped off in a place I do not belong anymore. Certainly not here with Mother and Daddy, ...

Kathryn Stockett

#24. The land of possibility is a better place to make your home than the realm of expectation will ever be

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#25. If, in moving through your life, you find yourself lost, go back to the last place where you knew who you were, and what you were doing, and start from there.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

#26. Becoming a person, of course, means finding your people, and your place among them

Jeffrey Eugenides

#27. The Secret Life of Bees proves that a family can be found where you least expect it-maybe not under your own roof, but in that magical place where you find love. The Secret Life of Bees is a gift, filled with hope!

Luanne Rice

#28. The only place you're sure to find love is at the end of a letter from your mother.

Bruce Lansky

#29. If you truly love someone, don't waste your time finding reasons to hate them. Spend it remembering why you love them in the first place.

Jinxx

#30. If you find yourself in some difficulty, step aside, and allow Buddha to take your place. The Buddha is in you.

Nhat Hanh

#31. I think the opportunities are all over the place - around your corner or in more exotic locales. But everyone finding their own interest - sometimes it's hard to know what you're interested in, I think.

Natalie Portman

#32. Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him.

Christopher Morley

#33. You have left a trail of breadcrumb clues which will lead you to the place where your purpose and passion have already met and are simply waiting for you to find them.

Jacob Nordby

#34. I always had a superstitious fear of setting up a too well-designed writing place and then finding that the writing had absconded.

Seamus Heaney

#35. But here I am, twenty-four and lost. I'm practically walking in circles, not able to find a place in the world. I keep going around and around in this constant motion, never finding a reason to stop and just be. I'm always doing something. Always moving. Never stagnant. It's sort of exhausting.

Cassie Graham

#36. To find someone to giggle with I place just below finding someone to flirt with and just above the ability to knit. Those are the only three things to do while waiting to go on.

Elaine Dundy

#37. All of Jiu Jitsu is finding a way to get your partner to willingly go where you want him to go in the first place.

Chris Matakas

#38. Do not place hope in finding a secret technique. Polish the mind through ceaseless training; that is the key to effective techniques.

Kyuzo Mifune

#39. Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith.

Pico Iyer

#40. You will never know who you truly are until you can find a quiet place to sit and think. A place where you can get lost in hopes of finding yourself

Callie

#41. Art flies around truth, but with the definite intention of not getting burnt. Its capacity lies in finding in the dark void a place where the beam of light can be intensely caught, without this having been perceptible before.

Franz Kafka

#42. Its 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

#43. Loneliness isn't about being by yourself. That's fine, right and good, desirable in many ways. Loneliness is about finding a landing-place, or not, and knowing that, whatever you do, you can go back there. The opposite of loneliness isn't company, it's return. A place to return.

Jeanette Winterson

#44. Find the love you seek, by first finding the love within yourself. Learn to rest in that place within you that is your true home.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#45. Chapels are emergency rooms for the soul. They are the one place we can reliably go to find who we are and what we should be doing with our lives - usually by finding all we aren't, and what is much greater than us, to which we can only give ourselves up.

Geraldine Brooks

#46. He'd stood amidst the ranks more than once, sensing the soldiers alongside him seeking and finding that place in the mind, cold and silent, the place where husbands, fathers, wives and mothers became killers. And practice made it easier, each time. Until it becomes a place you never leave.

Steven Erikson

#47. I understood finding the place you are born in an unbearable prison and wanting something completely different from what you are familiar with, knowing it represents a haven.

Jamaica Kincaid

#48. Good luck finding a place to park in New York City. And when you do, good luck figuring out the parking signs, restrictions, and prohibitions. It is so complicated. It has gotten so bad, I never park my car without a lawyer.

David Letterman

#49. Many of us place top priority not on becoming Christ like in the middle of our problems but on finding happiness ... I must firmly and consciously by an act of my will reject the goal of becoming happy and adopt the goal of becoming more like the Lord ...

Larry Crabb

#50. It was like waking up one morning and finding that a wild animal has wandered into your house. No place felt safe to me.

Khaled Hosseini

#51. What I did with his automobile was fairly dramatic and somewhat risky, but still a lot easier than finding a parking place on the Upper East Side.

Mark Helprin

#52. Tip #4
Skinny-dip at will!

(Idea)
When single boast about finding your inner most happy place and hold on to it Odds are once married you can kiss personal space Good-Bye.

Hazel Cartwright

#53. Farmers and people who make a living from the land are finding it impossible to survive. So the first step is to get out of that place. Come to the city where there are opportunities.

Mohsin Hamid

#54. Learning to "find my place in the world" translates in the practical language of life as "finding my little slot in the big State machine.

Anna Sofia Botkin

#55. My great love is the stage because I do feel like it's the place where, if you're lucky and everything is firing in the right way, you have the greatest shot at being successful. I don't mean by getting great reviews, but I mean by finding the core fo the person that you're playing.

Sarah Paulson

#56. Science may explain how humans came into being, but it has no answer to the slippery question of how humans should live. Only literature makes it possible to pose such questions in the first place. And if there is no answer, only literature can point to the impossibility of ever finding one.

Minae Mizumura

#57. My home will never be a place, but a state of mind, which I find through my music.

Charlotte Eriksson

#58. People think that saving the planet or finding their place in that effort is a really overwhelming thought.

Nikki Reed

#59. Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.

C.S. Lewis

#60. Some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not.

W. Somerset Maugham

#61. The Christian life is not about finding safety and comfort; it's about finding yourself in a dangerous place of vulnerable compassion.

Ed Stetzer

#62. The problem is that we always look for the missing piece of the puzzle instead of finding a place for the one in our hand ...

Alina Radoi

#63. Still believe, I suppose, in the coming of the White and in finding a place to make a stand ... and defending that place to the death.

Stephen King

#64. I'm going to keep on finding out the kind of man I am through my music. That's the one place I can be free. But the reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.

Charles Mingus

#65. How are you finding our country?" "It's a magical place," Nina gushed. If you like ice and more ice.

Leigh Bardugo

#66. My dreams about finding a place to create true, meaningful friendships around my fake video game world had come true.

Felicia Day

#67. There are a lot of billionaires in Silicon Valley, but in the end, we are all heading to the same place. If given the choice between making a lot of money or finding a way to make people live longer, what do you choose?

Bill Maris

#68. Don't be in a hurry about finding your work in the world for yourself - you are not old enough to judge for yourself yet; but just look about you in the place you find yourself in, and try to make things a little better and honester there.

Thomas Hughes

#69. The ultimate is finding a place where you have no inhibitions, nothing to hide, where you can learn with one another.

Jennifer Aniston

#70. When I discovered music - when I discovered the craft of shaping a song - my being fell into place.

Charlotte Eriksson

#71. I admire someone like Beyonce. She has amazing commitment. I needed to accept that I probably did not fit into that forum. Doing that 'The Cherry Thing' record was a big part of finding that place where I belong, where I may shine, but I never doubted it was there.

Neneh Cherry

#72. Healing from grief is about finding a new dimension to an old relationship. The person you love, the place you lived, or the pet you had may be gone, but the experience you had with that beloved, and how you have changed as a result of that relationship, are with you forever.

Sara Stein

#73. The two impulses in travel are to get away from home, and the other is to pursue something - a landscape, people, an exotic place. Certainly finding a place that you like or discovering something unusual is a very sustaining thing in travel.

Paul Theroux

#74. I had spent four years propped on the front porch of the fraternity house, bemused and dreaming, watching the sun shine through the spanish moss, lost in the mystery of finding myself alive at such a time and place.

Walker Percy

#75. But what was I but a scared child lost in a strange world? How could I replace all that been lost? Where was my place in the world?

Patrick Carman

#76. This middle age thing is a little weird. Some friends and mentors are gone, and there's a very forward-looking new generation coming up behind me. So it's very much finding my own place.

Yo-Yo Ma

#77. New York is a glorious place for clearing your head and finding inspiration. Every time you step outside, you live a dozen lives.

Lindsey Kelk

#78. I've never done acid, finding it hard to go willingly to a place that could be frightening, hellish, and totally beyond my control. A place much like high school.

Libba Bray

#79. Finding the right healing path requires all or nothing. Once you place conditions on healing, all you can achieve is conditional healing.

Caroline Myss

#80. I miss him for all the things he forgot to see in himself & if im lucky fate will help us rekindle a flame that never got set alight in the first place.

Nikki Rowe