Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
Do not assume something is impossible because you find it hard but recognize that if it is humanly possible, you can do it too.
You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize that, and you ll find strength.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. You'll be certain to find something you have never seen before.”
You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.”
To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others. ”
War is like love, it always finds a way.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.
I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.
When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.
Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc.
Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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.
It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.
“You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.”
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
He who does not expect will not find out the unexpected, for it is trackless and unexplored.
The difficulty is not to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
As for me, when you want a good laugh, you will find me in fine state... fat and sleek, a true hog of Epicurus' herd.
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.
Misfortune finds the weak spot
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
Beyond the earth, beyond the farthest skies I try to find Heaven and Hell. Then I hear a solemn voice that says: "Heaven and hell are inside.
In what we find joy, we will also find sorrow.
“Farewell until eternity, where you and I shall not find ourselves together.
I've often lost myself, in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake.
Find yourself, not me, in my verses.
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius
You find in the Koran hundreds of verses to support women's rights, and perhaps four or five that do not.
My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.
I become quite melancholy and deeply grieved to see men behave to each other as they do. Everywhere I find nothing but base flattery, injustice , self-interest, deceit and roguery. I cannot bear it any longer; I'm furious; and my intention is to break with all mankind.”
It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
The satisfaction which they find in their work has given them a grace and ease like that which comes from music.
“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.
When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.
Love goes on a journey, like I do One day I'll find it By the time I see its face I'll recognize it right away.
Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
Good people don't need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
“To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.”
People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner." I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.
I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.
What wisdom can you find greater than kindness?
What wisom can you find that is greater than kindness.
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.
“It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.
Now, try to put on a black skin for five minutes. I know you find this hard to do, but there is no other way to get the living feel of our situation.
People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them
Who seeks shall find.
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life - to learn something is a joy to me.
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
“The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.
“Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
The peasant celebrates with song and dance the harvest safely gathered in. The cup of Bacchus flows freely, and many find their relief in deep slumber
Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
"Music is not a language. Any musical piece is akin to a boulder with complex forms, with striations and engraved designs atop and within, which men can decipher in a thousand different ways without ever finding the right answer or the best one..."