Quotes About Finding Oneself

#1. 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

#2. Telling a true story about personal experience is not just a matter of being oneself, or even or finding oneself. It is also a matter of choosing oneself.

Harriet Lerner

#3. 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

#4. But there is a difference between enjoying someone's company, thinking them attractive, and finding oneself helplessly in love.

Kate Morton

#5. 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

#6. It was like finding oneself under the scrutiny of a stuffed bird. His

John Connolly

#7. Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made.

Jacques Barzun

#8. 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

#9. Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individual and finding oneself.

Gloria Steinem

#10. 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

#11. Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.

Rollo May

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. It is, finally, 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

#15. While a significant part of learning certain comes from teaching - but good teaching and by good teachers - a major measure comes from exploration, from reinventing the wheel and finding out for oneself.

Nicholas Negroponte

#16. If the key to life is figuring yourself out; family must be the lock.

LDarnell

#17. To be away from home and yet find oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet remain hidden from the world.

Charles Baudelaire

#18. Acting without design, occupying oneself without making a business of it, finding the great in what is small and the many in the few, repaying injury with kindness, effecting difficult things while they are easy, and managing great things in their beginnings; this is the method of Tao.

Laozi

#19. As love leads the way, the steps will be made easy.

David Scott

#20. Too much time is wasted fighting one self and life itself. Peace and fulfilment emerge the moment you embrace both.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#21. Today words curve around my vision,
Stumbling from my parched core
To soak again those strands of silence.

Phen Weston

#22. I saw a dead bird flying through a broken sky. I heard it, and it said, The world will never understand.

Nadege Richards

#23. Reach deep within, and reconnect with the essence of your being.

Bryant McGill

#24. In search of myself, I have created myself.

Ljupka Cvetanova

#25. He who does not really feel himself lost, is lost without remission; that is to say, he never finds himself, never comes up against his own reality.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#26. Unquestioning automatons
blindly marching to the beat -
an eerie crunching sound
hoards of shuffling feet ...
(from silent moments)

Muse

#27. Everything and everyone has a place to be, Echo. It's just a matter of how they get there and when. You have a place; you just have to find it.

Nadege Richards

#28. A change of perspective may be all it takes to transform a painful experience into a powerful growth experience.

Iyanla Vanzant

#29. Feeling real is more than existing; it is finding a way to exist as oneself ... and to have a self into which to retreat for relaxation.

Donald Woods Winnicott

#30. Those who seek eternity find a mind of infinity

Ana Claudia Antunes

#31. He'd thought he was lost, but now he recognized that eternity was around him, like salt from a shaker or stars in the sky.

Alice Hoffman

#32. I have rubbed, knocked and brushed up against a thousand windows, trying to get an image.

Anthony Liccione

#33. Finding the calmness or serenity in oneself effectively diffuses the judgments of others

Gary Hopkins

#34. We all make mistakes. We must keep finding the right paths.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#35. Men seek a great deal, but fatally close, albeit very different, is one's pride in proving oneself right with one's zeal for finding the truth.

Criss Jami

#36. We must become reacquainted with our true human selves.

Bryant McGill

#37. To find one's purpose is to discover one's worth, discern one's direction, wholly dedicate oneself to the journey, and forge an unbending determination that I will not leave the world the way I found it. This week's blog outlines the finding of our purpose.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#38. An Indigo Bunting let out a trill, a cheery song, reminding me of better days, of hope and happiness and all the lofty promises a blue canary can sing about. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath of the heady morning air. Looking within myself, I searched for the man I once was.

Cheryl R Cowtan

#39. It is better to know oneself than know to others. So not find fault others see first in yourself. When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears.

Suman Jyoty Bhante

#40. The female view that one strengthens oneself by strengthening others is finding greater acceptance, and female values of inclusion and connection are emerging as valuable leadership qualities.

Sally Helgesen

#41. We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart - the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.

Carson McCullers

#42. If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.

Criss Jami