Find Oneself Quotes

16 quotes by 16 authors

One may well find oneself beginning to doubt whether all this could conceivably be the product of an enormous lottery presided over by natural selection,… — Jacques Monod
Mankind is notoriously too dense to read the signs that God sends from time to time. We require drums to be beaten into our ears,… — Mahatma Gandhi
I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters. — John Cazale
There is no one who has no leisure time at all. The office is not a permanent sanctuary, and Sundays are an institution. Thus, in… — Siegfried Kracauer
Nothing is more difficult and nothing requires more character than to find oneself in open opposition to ones time (and those one loves) and to… — Kurt Tucholsky
No matter what kind of difficult situation one may find oneself in, some opening, some opportunity to fight one's way out, can always be found.… — Daisaku Ikeda
It is a solemn thing to find oneself drawn out in prayer which knows no relief till the soul it is burdened with is born.… — Amy Carmichael
Hard to believe that so nearby, just across the Channel, such atrocities could still occur in their supposedly civilized world, that one could wake up… — Lauren Willig
To think at its best is to find oneself carried down the current of necessity. — Brand Blanshard
If you can sit at set of sun And count the deeds that you have done And counting find oneself-denying act, one word That eased… — Robert Browning
To find oneself living in an age of doubt is not such a curse. There is a kind of reverence in undertaking the quest for… — Deepak Chopra
Individuals inherit a particular space within an interlocking set of social relationships; lacking that space, they are nobody, or at best a stranger or an… — Alasdair MacIntyre
Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself… — Jacques Lacan
I feel with some passion that what we truly are is private, and almost infinitely complex, and ambiguous, and both external and internal, and double-… — Philip Pullman
To assign unanswered letters their proper weight, to free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great, the… — Joan Didion
One does not "find oneself" by pursuing one's self, but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through discipline or routine. . .… — May Sarton

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16 authors contributed a total of 16 Find Oneself Quotes as follows: