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Something awful happens to a person who grows up as a creative kid and suddenly finds no creative outlet as an adult. — Judy Blume
Sometimes men and women prefer the darkness to the light because they are attached to their sins. Nevertheless it is only by opening oneself to… — Pope Benedict XVI
What a position of transcendent horror must that be, where the perpetrator of a great crime, till then a stranger to positive guilt, finds himself… — Christian Nestell Bovee
The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology. — Christian Nestell Bovee
One cannot celebrate books sufficiently. After saying his best, still something better remains to be spoken in their praise. As with friends, one finds new… — Amos Bronson Alcott
When the sovereign spirit within us is true to nature, it stands poised and ready to adjust to every change in circumstances and to seize… — Marcus Aurelius
[I]t is necessary to insist upon this extraordinary but undeniable fact: experimental science has progressed thanks in great part to the work of men astoundingly… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
A man who knows how to make good bargains or finds his money increase in his coffers, thinks presently that he has a good deal… — Jean de la Bruyere
Love, like the cold bath, is never negative, it seldom leaves us where it finds us; if once we plunge into it, it will either… — Charles Caleb Colton
I came to see that man finds meaning in his existence only through the active demonstration of his human self, a cosmos comprising the entire… — Pramoedya Ananta Toer
In democratic countries, however opulent a man is supposed to be, he is almost always discontented with his fortune, because he finds that he is… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Happy the man who from the sea escapes the storm and finds harbor. — Euripides
Men who have lost their conviction of what is good and what is bad find themselves without a sextant to check their position by. We… — John Dos Passos
Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds… — Pope Francis
The discontented man finds no easy chair. — Benjamin Franklin
There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart. — Thomas Fuller
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning… — Khalil Gibran
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I very seldom compose anything in my head which later finds its way into text, except character names sometimes - I'm often very much inspired… — William Gibson
If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive… — Dorothy Gilman
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt… — Oliver Goldsmith
A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother… — Daniel Goleman

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