"Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life."
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Finding Yourself
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"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."
"Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful; the sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue."
"What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer."
"Live today. Remove all blame from your vocabulary. Catch yourself when you find yourself using your past history as a reason for your failure to act today, and instead say, 'I am free now to detach myself from what used to be.'"
"Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something."
"You will never understand who you are until you understand who God is."
"You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things."
"Life isn't about finding yourself; it's about creating yourself. So live the life you imagined."
"Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore."
"I've always been the kind of person that doesn't like to trespass, but sometimes you just find yourself over the line."
"No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person."
"If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck."
"If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it."
"Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in."
"I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of."
"Merely by being born intelligent, you right away find yourself in absolute exile."
"You could begin to notice whenever you find yourself blaming others or justifying yourself. If you spent the rest of your life just noticing that and letting it be a way to uncover the silliness of the human condition-the tragic yet comic drama that we all continually buy into-you could develop a lot of wisdom and a lot of kindness as well as a great sense of humor."
"Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself."
"The simplest questions are the most difficult."
"There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind."