When we find someone whose weirdness
is compatible with ours,
we join up with them and fall into
mutually satisfying weirdness -
and call it love - true love.
- Robert Fulghum.
I love being married.
It's so great to find that one special person
you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
- Rita Rudner
Thank you, gentlemen. Someday I will repay you,
unless of course I can't find you, or if I forget.
- the movie Shrek 2
Clear? Huh. Why a four-year-old child
could understand this report.
Run out and find me a four-year-old child,
I can't make head or tail of it.
- the Groucho Marx movie Duck Soup
Don't expect me to get excited over
another damn thing we need to find.
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
The worst part of success is to try to find
someone who is happy for you.
- Bette Midler
I find that principles have no real force
except when one is well fed.
- Mark Twain
Money won't make you happy...
but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
- Zig Ziglar
Don't die with your music still inside you.
Listen to your intuitive inner voice
and find what passion stirs your soul.
- Wayne Dyer
I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out
where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
- George Carlin
Whenever I find the key to success,
someone changes the lock.
- Anonymous
Human beings must have action;
and they will make it if they cannot find it.
- Albert Einstein
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie"
until you can find a rock.
- Will Rogers
My advice to you is get married:
if you find a good wife you'll be happy;
if not, you'll become a philosopher.
- Socrates
If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.
- Mo Udall
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand,
you'll find one at the end of your arm.
- Audrey Hepburn
Unless they share our opinions,
we seldom find people sensible.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Find a time and place of solitude.
Look into the distance, and into the future.
Visualize the tomorrow you are going to build -
and begin to build that tomorrow, today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One of the annoying things about believing in free will
and individual responsibility is the difficulty
of finding somebody to blame your problems on.
And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable
how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.
- P. J. O'Rourke
We will either find a way or make one.
- Hannibal
We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone -
but paradoxically, if we cannot trust,
neither can we find love or joy.
- Walter Anderson
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase:
if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
- C. P. Snow
No matter what happens, someone will find a way
to take it too seriously.
- Dave Barry
What old people say you cannot do,
you try and find that you can.
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself.
You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
It hurts to love someone
and not be loved in return,
but what is more painful is to love
someone and never find the courage
to let that person know how you feel.
- Anonymous
I find that he is happiest
of whom the world says least, good or bad.
- Thomas Jefferson
When you find your path, you must not be afraid.
You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes.
Disappointment, defeat, and despair are
the tools God uses to show us the way.
- Paulo Coelho
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged
to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
- Nelson Mandela
We were given:
Two hands to hold.
Two legs to walk.
Two eyes to see.
Two ears to listen.
But why only one heart?
Because the other was given to someone else.
For us to find.
- Anonymous
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
To succeed, you need to find
something to hold on to,
something to motivate you,
something to inspire you.
- Tony Dorsett
Find your way with the certain and gentle light of forgiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
When I find that I can't accept what is happening,
I turn my attention to accepting my non-acceptance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When men destroy their old gods,
they will find new ones to take their place.
- Pearl S. Buck
Find ecstasy in life;
the mere sense of living is joy enough.
- Emily Dickinson
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
If you look into your own heart,
and you find nothing wrong there,
what is there to worry about?
What is there to fear?
- Confucius
Let everyone try and find that
as a result of daily prayer
he adds something new to his life,
something with which nothing can be compared.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I find that the harder I work,
the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson
It's so easy to fall in love
but hard to find someone who will catch you.
- Anonymous
Each one has to find his peace from within.
And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If you are walking to seek, ye shall find.
- Sommeil Liberosensa
The more we know about how we lost
our spontaneous wonder and creativity,
the more we can find ways to get them back.
- John Bradshaw
If we open a quarrel between past and present,
we shall find that we have lost the future.
- Winston Churchill
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss
at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
- Honore de Balzac
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.
- Epictetus
The best way to find yourself
is to lose yourself
in the service of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished:
If you're alive, it isn't.
- Richard Bach
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job,
tell 'em, Certainly I Can. -
and get busy and find out how to do it.
- Theodore Roosevelt
You can not find happiness by chasing after it.
Happiness comes from doing what you love to do,
and from being who you truly are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you are possessed by an idea,
you will find it expressed everywhere,
you even smell it.
- Thomas Mann
Just start dancing and the band will find you.
- Tama Kieves
Know that to find comfort, relax into the arms of Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
- Anonymous
I find hope in the darkest of days,
and focus in the brightest.
I do not judge the universe.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
When you find peace within yourself,
you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.
- Peace Pilgrim
When we try to pick out anything by itself,
we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
- John Muir
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual
bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
If a man does not make new acquaintances
as he advances through life,
he will soon find himself alone.
A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson
At the beginning and at the end of love,
the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
- Jean de la Bruyere
Find a place inside where there's joy,
and the joy will burn out the pain.
- Joseph Campbell
Stand up to your obstacles
and do something about them.
You will find that they haven't
half the strength you think they have.
- Norman Vincent Peale
You must live in the present,
launch yourself on every wave,
find your eternity in each moment.
- Henry David Thoreau
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