I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
Now at what point does an unpopular conviction
interfere with your own human rights?
Forced female circumcision, for instance.
The Catholic Church's stance on contraception.
The list goes on. You know, God has some really weird kids,
and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.
- Bono
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
The worst part of success is to try to find
someone who is happy for you.
- Bette Midler
Thank you, gentlemen. Someday I will repay you,
unless of course I can't find you, or if I forget.
- the movie Shrek 2
Don't expect me to get excited over
another damn thing we need to find.
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
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
Money won't make you happy...
but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
- Zig Ziglar
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
I find that principles have no real force
except when one is well fed.
- Mark Twain
I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out
where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
- George Carlin
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
Whenever I find the key to success,
someone changes the lock.
- Anonymous
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie"
until you can find a rock.
- Will Rogers
Human beings must have action;
and they will make it if they cannot find it.
- Albert Einstein
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand,
you'll find one at the end of your arm.
- Audrey Hepburn
If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.
- Mo Udall
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're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone -
but paradoxically, if we cannot trust,
neither can we find love or joy.
- Walter Anderson
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
Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself.
You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
We will either find a way or make one.
- Hannibal
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
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
When we got into office, the thing
that surprised me most
was to find that things were just as bad
as we'd been saying they were.
- John F. Kennedy
If you look for the bad in people
expecting to find it, you surely will.
- Abraham Lincoln
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
When we try to pick out anything by itself,
we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
- John Muir
Find your way with the certain and gentle light of forgiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
One way or another, we all have to find
what best fosters the flowering of our humanity
in this contemporary life,
and dedicate ourselves to that.
- Joseph Campbell
When I find that I can't accept what is happening,
I turn my attention to accepting my non-acceptance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you seek truth, you will not seek
victory by dishonorable means,
and if you find truth, you will become invincible.
- Epictetus
Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
- Anonymous
Through humor, you can soften some
of the worst blows that life delivers.
And once you find laughter,
no matter how painful your situation might be,
you can survive it.
- Bill Cosby
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
Three Rules of Work:
Out of clutter find simplicity;
From discord find harmony;
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein
When you find peace within yourself,
you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.
- Peace Pilgrim
People with great gifts are easy to find,
but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's so easy to fall in love
but hard to find someone who will catch you.
- Anonymous
I find that the harder I work,
the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson
If we open a quarrel between past and present,
we shall find that we have lost the future.
- Winston Churchill
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
If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.
- Carl Lewis
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
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.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous
What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When men destroy their old gods,
they will find new ones to take their place.
- Pearl S. Buck
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
If you are possessed by an idea,
you will find it expressed everywhere,
you even smell it.
- Thomas Mann
I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
- The Buddha
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
I Find A Magical White Bunny In Every Rabbit Hole.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that to find comfort, relax into the arms of Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged
to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
- Nelson Mandela
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves
come when life seems most challenging.
- Joseph Campbell
Just start dancing and the band will find you.
- Tama Kieves
Music and rhythm find their way
into the secret places of the soul.
- Plato
Your sacred space is where you can
find yourself again and again.
- Joseph Campbell
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Find a place inside where there's joy,
and the joy will burn out the pain.
- Joseph Campbell
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
When one gets angry, it is always angry AT someone -
perhaps a friend or spouse, perhaps a stranger,
perhaps the nameless "they" - "those people at the bank wronged me,"
perhaps God, or perhaps oneself.
In any case, when one gets angry,
they want to find someone to be "responsible" for what happened.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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