
We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
The true delight is in the finding out,
rather than in the knowing.
- Isaac Asimov
Are you feeling stressed and upset?
If so, you are worrying about tomorrow.
Events that have already occurred may cause you regret,
but they only appear to cause worry.
If you just lost your job, you are not worrying about losing your job -
that already happened.
You are worrying about paying your bills and finding a new job.
Those are worries about tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We learn more by looking for the answer
to a question and not finding it
than we do from learning the answer itself.
- Lloyd Alexander
We come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Angelina Jolie
There is no rule more invariable than that
we are paid for our suspicions
by finding what we suspect.
- Henry David Thoreau
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Boerne
Life isn't about finding yourself.
Life is about creating yourself.
- George Bernard Shaw
I have treated many hundreds of patients.
Among those in the second half of life -
that is to say, over 35 -
there has not been one whose problem in the last resort
was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.
- Carl Jung
A woman under stress is not immediately concerned
with finding solutions to her problems
but rather seeks relief
by expressing herself and being understood.
- John Gray
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
The worst part of success is to try to find
someone who is happy for you.
- Bette Midler
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)
Money won't make you happy...
but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
- Zig Ziglar
If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.
- Mo Udall
I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out
where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
- George Carlin
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand,
you'll find one at the end of your arm.
- Audrey Hepburn
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
Unless they share our opinions,
we seldom find people sensible.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Don't die with your music still inside you.
Listen to your intuitive inner voice
and find what passion stirs your soul.
- Wayne Dyer
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie"
until you can find a rock.
- Will Rogers
Whenever I find the key to success,
someone changes the lock.
- Anonymous
I find that principles have no real force
except when one is well fed.
- Mark Twain
Human beings must have action;
and they will make it if they cannot find it.
- Albert Einstein
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
No matter what happens, someone will find a way
to take it too seriously.
- Dave Barry
Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself.
You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
I find that he is happiest
of whom the world says least, good or bad.
- Thomas Jefferson
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase:
if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
- C. P. Snow
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
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
We will either find a way or make one.
- Hannibal
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
If we open a quarrel between past and present,
we shall find that we have lost the future.
- Winston Churchill
Music and rhythm find their way
into the secret places of the soul.
- Plato
If you are walking to seek, ye shall find.
- Sommeil Liberosensa
When men destroy their old gods,
they will find new ones to take their place.
- Pearl S. Buck
If you look for the bad in people
expecting to find it, you surely will.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished:
If you're alive, it isn't.
- Richard Bach
The best way to find yourself
is to lose yourself
in the service of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Find your way with the certain and gentle light of forgiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
- The Buddha
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Go within every day and find the inner strength
so that the world will not blow your candle out.
- Katherine Dunham
To succeed, you need to find
something to hold on to,
something to motivate you,
something to inspire you.
- Tony Dorsett
When I find that I can't accept what is happening,
I turn my attention to accepting my non-acceptance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
Just start dancing and the band will find you.
- Tama Kieves
What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I find motivation and inspiration and hope in information.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
He who can give thanks for little
will always find he has enough.
- Anonymous
Until he extends the circle of
his compassion to all living things,
man will not himself find peace.
- Albert Schweitzer
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.
Three Rules of Work:
Out of clutter find simplicity;
From discord find harmony;
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein
Find ecstasy in life;
the mere sense of living is joy enough.
- Emily Dickinson
Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of success is to find a need and fill it,
to find a hurt and heal it,
to find somebody with a problem
and offer to help solve it.
- Robert H. Schuller
Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
- Anonymous
If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.
- Carl Lewis
If we will be quiet and ready enough,
we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
- Henry David Thoreau
I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves
come when life seems most challenging.
- Joseph Campbell
Believe those who are seeking the truth.
Doubt those who find it.
- Andre Gide
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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