Not until we are lost do, we begin to understand ourselves. – Henry David Thoreau

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. – Joseph Campbell

To get lost is to learn the way. – African proverb

I got lost but look what I found. – Irving Berlin

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it. – George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

Feeling lost? Good! Now you get to walk new paths that lead to much better places. – Robin S. Sharma

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straightway was lost. – Dante Alighieri

If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place. – Nora Roberts

To be lost is as legitimate a part of your process as being found. – Alex Ebert

When you’re feeling lost, take heart. It’s just your brain gathering the information it needs to make good decisions. – Josh Kaufman

In this world, it is too common for people to search for someone to lose themselves in. But I am already lost. I will look for someone to find myself in. – C. JoyBell C.

No matter how much light I carry within me, there will always be times of feeling lost, being confused, seeking direction. It is the way of the human heart. – Joyce Rupp

Weeping is not the same thing as crying. It takes your whole body to weep, and when it’s over, you feel like you don’t have any bones left to hold you up. – Sarah Ockler, Twenty Boy Summer

Feeling lost? Take a dream and convert it into small goals, then start taking the steps to hit those goals. – Dave Ramsey

If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong. – Masaru Emoto, Secret Life of Water

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere. – Michel de Montaigne

Life is painful and messed up. It gets complicated at the worst of times, and sometimes you have no idea where to go or what to do. Lots of times people just let themselves get lost, dropping into a wide open, huge abyss. But that’s why we have to keep trying. We have to push through all that hurts us, work past all our memories that are haunting us. Sometimes the things that hurt us are the things that make us strongest. A life without experience, in my opinion, is no life at all. And that’s why I tell everyone that, even when it hurts, never stop yourself from living. – Alysha Speer

We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life. – Paulo Coelho

But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it. – Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way. – Dr. Rollo May

I need to have a reason why I’m doing something. Otherwise I’m lost. – Steve Mcqueen

I am closest to my mother, as she is my rock, my pillar of strength, and my world. Not only has she stood by me through all times- happy, sad, and otherwise- but there have even been moments when I had completely lost hope, and her immense belief in me had lifted me up. – Amruta Khanvilkar

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision. – Maimonides

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. – Saint Basil

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest. – Voltaire

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. – Colin Powell

It’s easy to be led astray when you’re so broken. People take advantage of you. – Willie Aames

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. – Michael Jordan

My mind is led astray by every faint rustle. – Mason Cooley

There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King. – Orison Swett Marden

Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world and lost your soul. Was it worth it? – Billy Graham

Memorial Day isn’t just about honoring veterans, its honoring those who lost their lives. Veterans had the fortune of coming home. For us, that’s a reminder of when we come home, we still have a responsibility to serve. It’s a continuation of service that honors our country and those who fell defending it. – Pete Hegseth

When all else is lost, the future still remains. – Christian Nestell Bovee

There is no greater unknown than the sea and no greater mystery than a lost ship. – Clive Cussler

Man’s true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good. – Blaise Pascal

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder. – Lao Tzu

You got to go down a lot of wrong roads to find the right one. – Bob Parsons

I think I’ve been through all the phases of the sport. I won, I lost, I got injured. Now I get to do what I love, with my truth, without worrying about what people will say or things like that. – Anderson Silva

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone. – Albert Camus

Life is supposed to be about love and good times, and so I’ve forgiven myself after paying the consequences of my bad decisions, and I’m ready to move forward and allow my life to be a light to others that it’s never over, even for a person like me, who has lost a tremendous amount of respect among my peers, my fans, my friends and family. – Jon Jones

I lost some time once. It’s always in the last place you look for it. – Neil Gaiman

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists -to protect them and to promote their common welfare- all else is lost. – Barack Obama

If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses- behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights. – Muhammad Ali

I don’t look for signs. But when things happen, I say, ‘OK, something must be right.’ Or ‘OK, something must be wrong. – Lil Wayne

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see. – Angelina Jolie

What leads us astray is confusing more choices with more control. Because it is not clear that the more choices you have the more in control you feel. We have more choices than we’ve ever had before. – Sheena Iyengar

Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature. – Zhuangzi

We are commanded to seek out those who are lost. We are to be our brother’s keeper. – Joseph B. Wirthlin

I thought you were gone forever, I thought you’d walked away from everything, because I failed, because I destroyed the only thing that ever mattered to me. I waited for you to come, but you didn’t. – Alexandra Adornetto, Halo

A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing. – Thomas Wolfe

Ve crossed some kind of invisible line. I feel as if I’ve come to a place I never thought I’d have to come to. And I don’t know how I got here. It’s a strange place. It’s a place where a little harmless dreaming and then some sleepy, early-morning talk has led me into considerations of death and annihilation. – Raymond Carver, Where I’m Calling From: New and Selected Stories

When I feel lost and can’t make a decision, I just stop and get quiet. I take a time-out. – Kim Cattrall

Yeah, but the lost diadem, said Michael Corner, rolling his eyes, is lost, Luna. That’s sort of the point. – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

The art of being bored is lost. – Ted Klauber

You get use to someone—start to like them, even—and they leave. In the end, everyone leaves. – Rachel Ward, Numbers

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression. – Margaret Fuller

Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost. – Erol Ozan

I’m gutted and feeling a bit lost, but I’m determined to get through it. – Gareth Evans

I used to spend so much time reacting and responding to everyone else that my life had no direction. Other people’s lives, problems, and wants set the course for my life. Once I realized it was okay for me to think about and identify what I wanted, remarkable things began to take place in my life. – Melody Beattie, The Language of Letting Go: Daily Meditations on Codependency

Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason. – Alain De Botton

Getting lost is just another way of saying ‘going exploring. – Justina Chen Headley, North of Beautiful

At one point, you were that employee who looked like a deer in headlights. Confused, lost, and not understanding your purpose within the organization. Even though you have the appropriate skills, you felt like you were in over your head. That is, until an amazing boss empowered you. – John Rampton

It can take years to mold a dream. It takes only a fraction of a second for it to be shattered. – Mary E. Pearson, The Kiss of Deception

They always say, ‘Time heals.’ But it really doesn’t. You just get used to it. I live life with the mentality of ‘OK, I lost the only thing that has ever been important to me.’ So going forward, anything bad that happens can’t be nearly as bad as what happened before. – Paris Jackson

She knew I could tell with one glance, one look, one simple instant. It was her eyes. Despite the thick makeup, they were still dark-rimmed., haunted, and sad. Most of all though, they were familiar. The fact that we were in front of hundreds of strangers changed nothing at all. I’d spent a summer with those same eyes-scared, lost, confused-staring back at me. I would have known them anywhere. – Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

Perspective gives us the ability to accurately contrast the large with the small, and the important with the less important. Without it we are lost in a world where all ideas, news, and information look the same. We cannot differentiate, we cannot prioritize, and we cannot make good choices. – John Sununu

No one compares to you, but there’s no you, except in my dreams tonight. – Lana Del Rey

For me, the reason why people go to a mountaintop or go to the edge of the ocean is to look at something larger than themselves. That feeling of awe, of going to a cathedral, it’s all about feeling lost in something bigger than oneself. To me, that’s the definition of spectacle. – Diane Paulus

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. – John Quincy Adams

There is love of course. And then there’s life, its enemy. – Jean Anouilh

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost. – Billy Graham

I realize now that I wanted to disappear. To get so lost that nobody ever found me. To go so far away that I’d never be able to make my way home again. But I have no idea why. – Jessica Warman, Between

Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use. – Sai Baba

I just want to be someone, to mean something to anyone… – Charlotte Eriksson

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit and lost without deserving. – William Shakespeare

Your memory feels like home to me. So, whenever my mind wanders, it always finds its way back to you. – Ranata Suzuki

I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn’t work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality. – Mitch Hedberg

…the sad part is, that I will probably end up loving you without you for much longer than I loved you when I knew you. Some people might find that strange. But the truth of it is that the amount of love you feel for someone and the impact they have on you as a person, is in no way relative to the amount of time you have known them. If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion. – Muhammad Iqbal

Be lost. Give up. Give In. In the end It would be better to surrender before you begin. Be lost. Be lost And then you will not care if you are ever found. – Victoria Schwab, Vicious

I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can’t say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger. – Harriet Tubman

Deja Moo: The  moment when you’ve heard that bull before

I've got 99 problems & 86 of them are completely made up scenarios in my head that I’m stressing about for absolutely no logical reason

When someone does something wrong, don’t forget all the things they did right

Sometimes forgiveness accomplishes miracles that can happen no other way  Gordon B Hicnkley

I decided to forgive you. Not because you apologized, or acknowledged the pain you caused me, but because my soul deserves peace   Najwa Zebain

Forgiveness does not change the past but it does enlarge the future

I know I’m on the right path because things stopped being easy

You will be too much for some people; Those aren’t your people

Change is never painful; Only the resistance to change is painful    Buddha

There are only 2 mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way & not starting    Buddha

There is no path to happiness. Happiness is the path.   Gautama Buddha

Use your smile to change the world, don’t let the world change your smile

There is no mathematical equation based on one's height, weight, shoe size, looks or loudness of voice that can determine or confirm one's IQ

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when one contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality    The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when one contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality Albert Einstein

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding   Albert Einstein

Valuable achievement can sprout from human society only when it is sufficiently loosened to make possible the free development of an individual’s abilities  Albert Einstein

You cannot expect a person to win medals in sprinting if you keep their legs tied. The broader society has to give people the freedom to explore their full potential and make a worthwhile contribution.   Albert Einstein

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile Albert Einstein

Living a life dedicated to the service of others brings meaning to life. It doesn’t mean you have to quit your job to do something good for others. You can add value to other people’s lives through your work.   Albert Einstein

The value of achievement lies in the achieving Albert Einstein

The great scientist believes in enjoying the journey rather than being obsessed with the end goal. A lot of people care only about the end goal or big prize.   Albert Einstein

There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”   Albert Einstein

If you believe that nothing is a miracle, life will seem like a burden and you are unlikely to appreciate all the wonderful things it has to offer. Choosing to believe that everything is a miracle makes you feel blessed. It makes you wonder, question, and appreciate everything you have in life.   Albert Einstein

Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value   Albert Einstein

A person should try to become a man of value rather than a man of success. Many a time people lose sight of who they are once they become successful. If you live by your values and try to improve the lives of those around you, you’ll end up being successful.   Albert Einstein

Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions   Albert Einstein

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it   Albert Einstein

Spreading joy to others will bring joy into your life   Mark Twain

The modern world is made up of the things we think we need    Mark Twain

Greatness can make men to crumble   Mark Twain

Be brave despite your fears    Mark Twain

Man is who brings hate into the world   Mark Twain

Stupidity is not to be trifled with    Mark Twain

Keep the company of the people you value   Mark Twain

Surround yourself with people that want you to succeed   Mark Twain

Principles only work if you stick to them    Mark Twain

Anger will hurt the person that holds it in their heart   Mark Twain

Do not talk of what you do not know   Mark Twain

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear & the blind can see   Mark Twain

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable    Mark Twain

Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason. ― Abraham Joshua Heschel

If the first words out of your mouth are to cry ‘political correctness!’, … chances are very, very high that you are in fact part of the problem. ― N.K. Jemisin

People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one’s soul little by little, day after day, is a lot worse than someone coming in your house and lynching you. ― Samuel L. Jackson

Racism springs from ignorance. ― Mario Balotelli

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible. ― Maya Angelou

You don’t fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity. ― Bobby Seale

Hating people because of their color is wrong and it doesn’t matter which color does the hating. It’s just wrong. ― Muhammad Ali

No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them ― Elie Wiesel

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. ― Martin Luther King

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. ― Martin Luther King Jr.

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion. People learn to hate and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love for love comes more naturally to human heart than its opposite. ― Nelson Mandela

Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice. ― Michael Crichton

To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white. ― E. E. Cummings

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow. ― William Faulkner

Prejudice is the child of ignorance. ― William Hazlitt

Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make. ― Ruth Benedict

Whites must be made to realize that they are only human, not superior. Same with blacks. They must be made to realize that they are also human, not inferior. ― Steve Biko

The roots of racism lie deep in man’s nature, wounded and bruised by original sin. ― Sargent Shriver

One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people. ― Alvin Ailey

Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism. ― Walter Lang

It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate. ― James Arthur Baldwin

Racism, because it favors color over talent, is bad for business. ― Steven Pinker

Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out. ― Pierre Berton

Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society. ― Steven Patrick Morrissey

Let’s practice motivation and love, not discrimination and hate. ― Zendaya

If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world. ― Kofi Annan

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that’s how I operate my life. ― Oprah Winfrey

Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated. ― Kofi Annan

The color of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers. ― Benjamin Banneker

Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education. ― Sargent Shriver

Racism is ridiculous no matter where it’s coming from. ― Alan Ball

The minute you understand racism, you’re responsible for being racist. It’s like eating from the tree of knowledge. ― Lynda Barry

In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently. ― Harry A. Blackmun

Things like racism are institutionalized. You might not know any bigots. You feel like well I don’t hate black people so I’m not a racist,but you benefit from racism. Just by the merit, the color of your skin. The opportunities that you have, you’re privileged in ways that you might not even realize because you haven’t been deprived of certain things. We need to talk about these things in order for them to change. ― Dave Chappelle

Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike. ― Ban Ki-moon

The best way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race. ― John Roberts

The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery. ― Frederick Douglass

As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it—whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash. ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

The modern definition of ‘racist’ is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal. ― Peter Brimelow

A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer. ― A. Whitney Brown

Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal. ― Benjamin Spock

When people like me, they tell me it is in spite of my colour. When they dislike me, they point out that it is not because of my colour. ― Frantz Fanon

Our true nationality is mankind. ― H.G. Wells

Racism built me into a person that was set up to be self-destructive. ― Jayson Blair

Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection. ― Martin Luther King

A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family. ― Saul Alinsky

Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away, and that in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty. ― Martin Luther King

At the heart of racism is the religious assertion that God made a creative mistake when He brought some people into being ― Friedrich Otto Hertz

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls. ― Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream

You face racism in small and large ways. ― Jayson Blair

Racism is not dead. Definitely, there are these biases. ― John McWhorter

Racism isn’t born, folks, it’s taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list. ― Denis Leary

The denial of racism is a form of racism itself. ― Tim Wise

Racism, unfortunately, is part of the fabric of America’s society. ― David Scott

Racial superiority is a mere pigment of the imagination. ― unknown

Discrimination is a disease. ― Roger Staubach

Judgments prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances. ― Wayne W. Dyer

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges. ― Joseph Fort Newton

It is never too late to give up our prejudices. ― Henry David Thoreau

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. ― Ralph W. Sockman

We have made enormous progress in teaching everyone that racism is bad. Where we seem to have dropped the ball… is in teaching people what racism actually IS. ― Jon Stewart

Our thoughts are unseen hands shaping the people we meet. Whatever we truly think them to be, that’s what they’ll become for us. ― Richard Cowper

Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden. ― Desmond Tutu

Richard exhaled. It was like somebody sprinkling pepper on his wound: Thousands of Biafrans were dead, and this man wanted to know if there was anything new about one dead white man. Richard would write about this, the rule of Western journalism: One hundred dead black people equal to one dead white person. ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it. ― Abraham Lincoln

If a real stupid person becomes senile, how would you know   George Carlin

If a real stupid person becomes senile, how would you know   George Carlin

If there is toxicity in your life, remove yourself from it   Jonathan Mead

Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love

You are in control of your destiny, so make it bright

If is important to you, you will find away. If not you’l find an excuse