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  • Theoretically there is no absolute proof that one's awakening in the morning (the finding oneself again in the saddle of one's personality) is not really a quite unprecedented event, a perfectly original birth.

    Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “Bend Sinister”, p.77, Penguin UK
  • The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

  • It is no small benefit on finding oneself in bed in the dark to go over again in the imagination the main lines of the forms previously studied, or other noteworthy things conceived by ingenious speculation.

    Leonardo (da Vinci) (1938). “The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci”
  • The feeling of losing oneself in somebody's arms, yet at the same time finding oneself there, is irreplaceable. Nothing compares to the intensity of that feeling.

    Feelings   Arms   Losing  
  • You can't help people being right for the wrong reasons...This fear of finding oneself in bad company is not an expression of political purity; it is an expression of a lack of self-confidence.

  • Telling a true story about personal experience is not just a matter of being oneself, or even or finding oneself. It is also a matter of choosing oneself.

    Harriet Goldhor Lerner (1993). “The Dance of Deception: Pretending and Truth-Telling in Women's Lives”, Harpercollins
  • Finding oneself and one's path is like waking up on a foggy day. Be patient, and presently the fog will clear and that which has always been there can be seen. The path is already there to follow

  • In a time when everybody is talking about finding oneself, how do you find yourself? I wanted to do it as literally as possible. How do I prove that I'm concentrating on myself? I prove it by doing something physical. I can bite myself. I can burn the hair off my chest. The goal? Yes, I have a body. I have this thing that people call the self. Maybe I can change the self.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made.

    Self   Made   Found  
  • Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

  • It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first.

  • Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

    Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”
  • One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

    Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.15, Courier Corporation
  • I think the ambiguity of similarity and difference is very powerful. It's the same scene in different times of year read across the grid, and, of course, different locations reading vertically. But you can get confused and lost in the series. You force the mind, which is always comparing and contrasting, to stumble ... That ambiguity is very powerful. One is getting lost and refinding oneself.

    Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.
  • Your discovery, as best as I can determine, is that there is an alternative which no one has hit upon. It is that one finding oneself in one of life's critical situations need not after all respond in one of the traditional ways. No. One may simply default. Pass. Do as one pleases, shrug, turn on one's heel and leave. Exit. Why after all need one act humanly?

    Discovery   May   Way  
    Walker Percy (1988). “The moviegoer”
  • Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

    Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”
  • Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.

    Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company
  • Me personally, I'm a guy who it took a long time to figure out what I'm supposed to be doing. I relate to a lot of that finding oneself a little later in the game, or being thrown a curve later in the game.

    Curves   Games   Long  
  • What is magic? In the deepest sense, magic is an experience. It's the experience of finding oneself alive within a world that is itself alive. It is the experience of contact and communication between oneself and something that is profoundly different from oneself: a swallow, a frog, a spider weaving its web.

    Interview with Derrick Jensen, www.derrickjensen.org. July 1, 2000.
  • I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.

    Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”
  • Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.

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