It is not true that everyone is special. It is true that everyone was once special and still possesses the ability to recover it.
It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are. . . . . . We must always take risks. That is our destiny.
Navigate by the same star, unwilling to change, and you find yourself not only off-course but lost.
If you find yourself running away from something and then suddenly you're isolated in a vacuum, then you have to deal with all the inherent truths and learning things about yourself and the people that are around you.
College is for finding yourself. I've established who I want to be.
Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.
If you find yourself in some difficulty, step aside, and allow Buddha to take your place. The Buddha is in you.
Once in a while you find yourself in an odd situation. You get into it by degrees and in the most natural way but, when you are right in the midst of it, you are suddenly astonished and ask yourself how in the world it all came about.
When you find yourself in the thickness of pursuing a goal or dream, stop only to rest. Momentum builds success.
What is the origin of the urge, the fascincation that drives physicists, mathematicians, and presumably other scientists as well? Psychoanalysis suggests that it is sexual curiosity. You start by asking where little babies come from, one thing leads to another, and you find yourself preparing nitroglycerine or solving differential equations. This explanation is somewhat irritating, and therefore probably basically correct.
Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.
Louis Pasteur said, 'Chance favors the prepared mind. ' If you're really engaged in the writing, you'll work yourself out of whatever jam you find yourself in.
Ask yourself, 'How did God bless me today?' If you do that long enough and with faith, you will find yourself remembering blessings.
Make sure you don't become the very thing you find yourself fighting against.
Never insult a writer. You may find yourself immortalized in ways you may not appreciate.
When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends limitations; your conscious expands in every direction; and you find yourself in a great, new and wonderful world.
Do not find yourself in the music, but find the music in yourself
You will find yourself in the Quran, I guarantee you.
You do what you do - in the circumstances in which you find yourself - because of the way you are. So if you're going to be ultimately responsible for what you do, you're going to have to be ultimately responsible for the way you are - at least in certain mental respects. But you can't be ultimately responsible for the way you are (for the reasons just given). So you can't be ultimately responsible for what you do.
That’s the problem with fiction — or the charm, if you want. Even mediocre plots have a way of sinking their hooks into you, until you find yourself concerned for the fates of characters who aren’t even fully convincing.