Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
Marcus Aurelius

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T. S. Eliot

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.
T. S. Eliot

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
George Orwell

What you need to do is get that tape measure out, and start measuring that gut. Then you start working out and you start eating properly till that gut gets down close to it was when you were in your 20's. Then you'll find out what your weight should be.
Jack LaLanne

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
Frederick Douglass

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.
Julius Caesar

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
Thomas Merton

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.
Thomas Merton

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Thomas Merton

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.
Thomas Merton

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone-we find it with another.
Thomas Merton

To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
Plutarch

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
Blaise Pascal

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.
Blaise Pascal

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.
Blaise Pascal

When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.
Blaise Pascal

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.
Blaise Pascal

Liberals should not overplay this weapons of mass destruction card, because you want me to tell you the truth? Most of us are not going to care if they don't find these weapons of mass destruction. It's enough for a lot of us to see those kids smiling on that street again.
Dennis Miller

I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.
Woody Allen