Quotes on Found

One tragic example of the loss of forests and then water is found in Ethiopia. The amount of its forested land has decreased from 40 to 1 percent in the last four decades. Concurrently, the amount of rainfall has declined to the point where the country is rapidly becoming a wasteland.

I've found that worry and irritation vanish into thin air the moment I open my mind to the many blessings I possess.

God's noblest work. Man who found it out? Man.

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity. I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not - more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving.

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

There are no such things as incurables. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.

To me spirituality needs an honest individuality. It does not allow any kind of dependence. It creates a freedom for itself, whatever the cost. It is never in the crowd but alone, because the crowd has never found any truth. The truth has been found only in people's aloneness.

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

It was so important for me to lose everything, because I found out what the most important thing is, which is to be true to yourself.

Those who believe that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state.

In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought.

If I ever lose my mind I hope some honest person will find it and take it to Lost and Found.

A musk deer searches for the source of the fragrance of musk, but it won't find it because the fragrance comes from within itself. Bliss is not to be found outside of us; it exists within us.

No solution can ever be found by running in three different directions.

Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is a choice based on the knowledge that we belong to God and have found in God our refuge and our safety and that nothing, not even death, can take God away from us.

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience of everyday life.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.

Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.

Mind is the absence of meditation. The moment meditation arises in you, mind is found nowhere.