Quotes About Finding

But it is not only the difficulty and labor which men take in finding out of truth, nor again that when it is found it imposeth upon men's thoughts, that doth bring lies in favor; but a natural though corrupt love of the lie itself.

There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.

My life wasn't just about one city, or one Epic, anymore. It was about a war. It was about finding a way to stop the Epics. Permanently.

I am beginning now to see how radically the character of my spiritual journey will change when I no longer think of God as hiding out and making it as difficult as possible for me to find him, but, instead, as the one who is looking for me while I am doing the hiding.

God should be sought, but we cannot find God. We can only be found by him.

The question is not "How am I to find God?" but "How am I to let myself be found by him?

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspected.

Overcoming the world. And thus finding it. For we must not only be in it and above it, but of it too. To love it for what it is- how difficult! And yet it's the first, the only task. Evade it, and you are lost. Lose yourself in it and you are free.

Peace means the way of finding the inner calmness, tranquility and joy, in the midst of conflicts and injustice.

There is nothing dishonorable about abandoning pain. Sometimes peace is most quickly found when a man simply stops avoiding it.

We find what we search for.

Part of my job as a presidential speechwriter (along with great writers like Jon Favreau and David Axelrod) was finding that sliver where 'presidential' and 'actually funny' overlap.

So many people wanted an adventure. It was really more about finding the cast that I wanted for 'Expedition Impossible,' so it had good diversity, and people could really say, 'Oh, there's the firefighters, there's the team of cops, there's the grandpa' - so that you can really relate with them.

The liberation of finding yourself at rock bottom. No risk of falling any deeper into shit.

There's a light that can make finding a thing look more than faintly like falling across it—you must kneel, make an offering. I threw my compass away years ago. I have passed through that light. —Carl Phillips, from "That it Might Save, or Drown Them", Wild is the West (?Farrar, Straus and Giroux (January 23, 2018)

There are many hypotheses in science that are wrong. That's perfectly alright; it's the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny.

The thing about witchcraft, said Mistress Weatherwax, is that it's not like school at all. First you get the test, and then afterward you spend years findin' out how you passed it. It's a bit like life in that respect

The thing about witchcraft," said Mistress Weatherwax, "is that it's not like school at all. First you get the test, and then afterward you spend years findin' out how you passed it. It's a bit like life in that respect.

I hope that they are finding satisfaction. I'm in no way making a judgment. I know it doesn't make me happy.

Settings are obviously important - and as a writer, you have to respect what was real at the time of the story you're writing. But the real key to success lies in finding the right characters to carry that story.

Did you find yourself?" "What?" said my sister. "Did you find yourself?" "She found me," I said.

We've been looking for the enemy for several days now. We've finally found them. We're surrounded. That simplifies our problem of getting to these people and killing them.

The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised.

All of my books have the potential to become movies, it's just a question of finding a studio who wants to get behind me and put up the money to make the movie.