Quotes About Search

Rigidity is always the opposite of the search for truth.

Rumi speaks often of the power of silence to take us to what we are looking for. In one poem he says: We search for him here and there while looking right at Him. Sitting at His side we ask, "O Beloved, where is the Beloved?" Enough with such questions! — Let silence take you to the core of life. All your talk is worthless When compared to one whisper of the Beloved.

I think, consciously or not, what we readers do each time we open a book is to set off a search for authenticity. We want to get closer to the heart of things, and sometimes even a few good sentences contained in an otherwise unexceptional book can crystallize vague feelings, fleeting physical sensations, or, sometimes, profound epiphanies. pg. xvi

Stuart's a wizard with those kinds of things, she said. What kinds of things? Oh, he can find anything online. Debbie was obviously one of those parents who still hadn't quite grasped that using the Internet was not exactly wizardry, and that we could all find anything online. I didn't say this, because you don't want people to feel that they've missed something really obvious, even when they have.

aquellos a quienes llamáis materialistas y espiritualistas son sólo dos mitades del mismo ser humano disecado, que trata siempre de encontrar la plenitud, pero buscándola al alternar entre la destrucción de la carne y la destrucción del alma y viceversa; de que corren desde vuestros colegios a las prisiones de esclavos de Europa y de éstas al colapso del fangal místico de la India, sin buscar refugio alguno contra la realidad, ni forma de escapar a la mente.

what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.

It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

Of course the scientist's position is subordinate. Our task is to make our fussy natures invisible against the mechanisms of the universe. Truth is not ours to find within, but to search out. We study the known world in order to recognize the remarkable.

She raised her arms away from her sides and looked at me. She smiled in that sly, subversive way she had—teasing, but also amused, and inviting the recipient of the smile to join in the amusement. "You're not going to search me?

To go in search of what once was is to postpone the difficulty of living with what is.

The key point is that maximizers aspire to achieve that goal. Thus, they spend a great deal of time and effort on the search, reading labels, checking out consumer magazines, and trying new products.

When he remembered to turn and look for it, the Talisman was gone.

I dreamed of you. I dreamed you were wandering in the dark, and so was I. We found each other.

The heavy patted him down

The Psalmist expressed our conviction well: "Search your own heart with all diligence for out of it flow the issues of life.

Covey believed that timeless principles do indeed exist, and that the search for them is not folly, but wisdom

There is] truth on the far side of despair and doom. All we have to do is find it.

So now you think the augury was misinterpreted. It said you had to go get someone. It didn't say who that someone was.

An algorithm gives you the instructions directly. A heuristic tells you how to discover the instructions for yourself, or at least where to look for them.

So I'm heading for Truth or Consequences. Aren't we all, says Lorenzo, aren't we all.

Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure ... another chance in life.

Almost every person wonders who their soul mate will be or where they will find them and everyone has or will suffer a love loss or the fear of that loss at different points in their lives.

Somewhere there must one Made for this soul, to move it.

We are all children searching for love.