I Quotes
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“I have found that life is alive and we are requested to have a friendship with it, to have a conversation with life and that conversation is restorative and healing and always nearby.”
“I have found that life persists in the midst of destruction and, therefore, there must be a higher law than that of destruction. Only under that law would a well-ordered society be intelligible and life worth living.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“I have found that lived out, the hardest place to be a Christian is to be in a nice prosperous country with a lot of entertainment options because there's so many distractions.”
“I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.”
Source: Rumors of Another World: What on Earth are We Missing?
“I have found that long durational art is really the key to changing consciousness. On such a deep level. Not just the performer, but the one looking at it.”
“I have found that Lost World in the Lost and Found
Columns whose gray illegible advertisements
My soul has memorized world after world:
LOST - NOTHING. STRAYED FROM NOWHERE. NO REWARD.”
Source: Selected poems
“I have found that many other countries will buy off on anything American. As much as they hate us, they want to be us more than anything.”
“I have found that meditation has helped me with my academic career and has given me insights into musical composition and software design.”
“I have found that most people are more willing to accept physical pain and limitation rather than acknowledge and deal with the mental and/or emotional pain that might have caused it.”
“I have found that much that happens in supervision/consultation focuses on what needs to happen next. There can be a sense of the person under consideration becoming a static object to be analyzed, and then advice may be offered about how that person could/should be shaped in a certain (presumably healthier) way.”
Source: The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships
“I have found that my company is a better person in your company...”
“I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.”
“I have found that one of the keys to really being free is to live in the same way as you meditate.”
Source: True Meditation: Discover the Freedom of Pure Awareness
“I have found that people who can successfully resist temptation invariably lead depressingly stunted lives.”
Source: Youth in Revolt: Now a major motion picture from Dimension Films starring Michael Cera
“I have found that people who have a passion or a strong will for what they want to achieve, and who do not allow others to smear or sully their inner pictures of what they want to manifest, always seem to get what they desire in their lives.”
“I have found that searching for insight is more often than not a path to total darkness”
“I have found that sharing this very intimate part of my life has been really powerful, because it has brought support from people I wasn't expecting. It's cathartic on many different levels. As I get older, I realize it's so much better to connect with people. It makes everything better to connect. Only connect. Why not have my art be about that? I think of it as moving from the third person to the first.”
“I have found that she is as kind and caring a person as she is hilarious. Simply put, Amy Poehler is my hero.”
“I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.”
Source: I Capture The Castle
“I have found that the best cure for self pity is to do something to help someone else.”
“I have found that the characters in my novels stay with me after a book has ended. I know them in some sense. I never map anything out. I just think until I am secure in the voice of one of them, and then let the character unfold.”
“I have found that the greatest degree of inner peace comes from cultivating love and compassion.”
“I have found that the greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being. Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. It is the ultimate source of success in life.”
Source: In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy
“I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.”
Source: Selected letters of William Faulkner
“I have found that the greatest stories of acceptance and love and the ugliest stories of hideous cruelty and abuse have equally been perpetrated in the name of Christian faith.”
“I have found that the Iron is a great cure for loneliness. Loneliness is a desire for what is not there with you. You can be lonely for an infinite number of things-people, feelings— whatever creates a void in your life with its absence. Sometimes your loneliness has nothing to attach itself to. You're just lonely, flat out. The Iron can pull you through when all else fails. You'll find that it was you that got you through. Loneliness”
Source: Do I Come Here Often?
“I have found that the key to being happy - well, one of the keys, anyway - is to be easily amused.”
“I have found that the less expectation you put on others, the more happiness you will find with them and yourself.”
“I have found that the many imbalances within our individual lives result in an overall more worldly balance. What I mean is that no matter how unfair I think something is, I need only look at the bigger picture to see how, in a way, it fits... however impossible it is to understand it or see it at the time.”
Source: There's No Place Like Here
“I have found that the more I get my ego out of a picture and the more I think about how can I serve other people instead of always thinking about me, the more miracles show up.”
“I have found that the more I reflect philosophically on the attributes of God the more overwhelmed I become at his greatness and the more excited I become about Bible doctrine. Whereas easy appeals to mystery prematurely shut off reflection about God, rigorous and earnest effort to understand him is richly rewarded with deeper appreciation of who he is, more confidence in his reality and care, and a more intelligent and profound worship of his person.”
“I have found that the more I teach those who want to learn, the more I learn.”
Source: Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“I have found that the only consolation is never regretting anything that you do. Never look back, always look forward and continue moving along with a confidence that everything you’re doing and everything you’ve done is the way it’s supposed to be.”
Source: The Key of Life; A Metaphysical Investigation
“I have found that the only thing that does bring you happiness is doing something good for somebody who is incapable of doing it for themselves.”
“I have found that the people in South Africa are fabulous. Thy are receptive and value fulfilling their lives. They are highly spirited and have dreams and desires to serve. I have learned how resourceful and efficient many people are able to live and how creative they can be and how much love they have for the families and extended loved ones. I love the spirit of South Africans.”
“I have found that the people who shout their opinion the loudest are usually the ones most insecure in their position.
I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.
It's not that there wasn't anything to say. It's that there was too much and words were poor substitutes for our feelings.
But Korczak's greatest legacy is not a public one, the massive stone mountain that he conquered, but the mountain he first conquered in himself-a mountain that he climbed alone-in this we can all empathize. (about the sculptor of Crazy Horse)”
“I have found that the people whom society has deemed to be the weakest are inevitably the strongest.”
“I have found that the person with a sense of story built in from childhood is in better shape than one who has not had stories . . One knows what stories can do, how they can make up worlds and transpose existence into these worlds. . . .One learns that worlds are made by words and not only by hammers and wires.”
“I have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries.”
“I have found that the reason a lot of people are interested in artificial intelligence is the same reason a lot of people are interested in artificial limbs: they are missing one.”
“I have found that the richest people I know are also the nicest.”
“I have found that the Way of the samurai is death. This means that when you are compelled to choose between life and death, you must quickly choose death.”
“I have found that the wonder of life is often most easily recognizable through habits and routines...Order and discipline are important to meaning for me. Discipline, I have learned, leads to freedom, and there is meaning in freedom. If you don't do ritual things in order, the paper doesn't read as well, and you'll be thrown off the whole day. But when you can sit for a while at your table, reach for your coffee, look out the window at the sky or some branches, then back down at the paper or a book, everything feels right for the moment, which is maybe all we have.”
Source: Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair by Anne Lamott
“I have found that there are two ways of dealing with men. Either you treat them with respect, or you kill them. Anything in between merely breeds resentment and the desire for revenge.”
Source: Corvus
“I have found that there is a difference in the type of action you take and the results that you receive. My definition of action that gets the results you desire – is relaxed inspired action- not desperate action or desperate reaction.”
Source: Relax Into Inspired Action: Connect the Pieces and Live Fulfilled
“I have found that those who try to shield us from the truth, regardless of the reason, end up doing the greatest harm. Truth alone sets you free, not lies and omissions.”
Source: Born of Persuasion
“I have found that to love and be loved is the most empowering and exhilarating of all human emotions.”
“I have found that unless I surrender every part of my life to God every part of my day, I will end up missing most every part of my life every day of my life.”
“I have found, that we often must realise, that we cannot be angry at people for simply not being capable of stepping out of their comfort zones to be decent human beings. You are born with this wild respect for people and you think it's all equal. And that's what hurts. Because it's not all equal, not all people are going to show up for you, not all people are going to do the decent thing for you, even if it's something that would be so easy for you to do. You can never make your standard into the standard for everyone. Some people are just frogs in a mud puddle, and really, they're actually perfectly fine with that!”
“I have found that when calculating what no one has calculated before, like my observing sessions on the mountain, my mental acuity peaks. Ironically, these are the times that I would flunk the reality check normally reserved for mental patients and dazed boxers: What is your name? What day is it? Who is the president of the United States?... I do not know, and I do not care. I am at peace with my equations as I connect to the cosmic engines that drive our universe.”