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“When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.” Oscar Wilde, “De Profundis” - 1905

“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something” J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Hobbit” - 1937

“Some mathematician has said that enjoyment lies in the search for truth, not in the finding it.” Leo Tolstoy, “Anna Karenina” - 1877

“There are no means of finding what either one person or many can do, but by trying—and no means by which any one else can discover for them what it is for their happiness to do or leave undone.” John Stuart Mill, “The Subjection of Women” - 1869

“I have sought but a kindred spirit to share it, and I have found such in thee.” Walter Scott, “Ivanhoe” - 1820

“Your job isn’t to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.” Stephen King, “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft” - 2000

“Perhaps that you're searching far too much? That in all that searching, you don't find the time for finding?” Hermann Hesse, “Siddhartha” - 1922

“There was a missing person inside of myself and I needed to find him.” Bob Dylan, “Chronicles, Volume One” - 2004

“Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits him” Paulo Coelho, “The Alchemist” - 1988

“I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found, nor much identification from shapes which symbolize continents and states.” John Steinbeck, “Travels with Charley” - 1962

“I think that one of these days . . . you're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose a minute.” J. D. Salinger, “The Catcher in the Rye” - 1951

“some day I'm going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Tender Is the Night” - 1934

“You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.” J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Hobbit” - 1937

“For almost ninety years I've walked among my kind, and yours... all the time thinking I was complete in myself, not realizing what I was seeking. And not finding anything, because you weren't alive yet.” Stephenie Meyer, “Twilight” - 2005

“Good Friends Are Hard to Find and Impossible to Forget” John Green, “The Fault in Our Stars” - 2012

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