Quotes About Search

Since the end of the Cold War, America has been grasping left and right for an identity.

When I was growing up, rock & roll helped give me my sense of identity, but I had to search for it.

I was adopted by a Salvadorian mother and a white father. Growing up having complete identity crisis. Then my search for my mother and trying to find out why I was given up, and how could a mother give up a child, then finding out the circumstances of my birth was pretty traumatizing.

Like all children, I spent a lot of time looking for idols.

Certainly for me, as an astrobiologist, science fiction has played an important role. One of the quandaries of our field is that we are trying to study and search for something - life - that we can't define in a rigorous way. We only have one example of a biosphere, so we can't really give a good definition.

Since my life has been wayward and impulsive, always a search for something that is not there, and then disillusionment, I believe I need all the excuses I can make.

I wonder if we'll ever meet My song of love is incomplete I'm just the words, looking for the tune Reaching for the moon and you

Where to look if you've lost your mind?

when you search for romance you often find disappointment!

We spend most of the time searching for love, but once we get what we want, we stop working, but the real work still has to be done.

Well, where is she ? Where the colossal / Mountains of smoke stand. / That thing there amongst the fires / Is her.

The way to find a needle in a haystack is to sit down.

Meander within the space of insufficient evidence.

HUMPHREY'S TOP SECRET SCRIBBLES Sometimes you have to LOOK-LOOK-LOOK To find the very perfect book.

Cry out for insight and understanding. Search for them as you would for lost money or hidden treasure.

Philosophy, n. A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.

The search for understanding, wherever it roams, is a search for better simplifications. Simplifications which explain more and distort less... All human understanding is based on simplifications of more complex realities.

Future strong is being focused enough and mindful enough and courageous enough to search for patterns and order when all others see chaos and noise.

In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find is feeling lost and trying to find your way.

If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.

He who would search for pearls must dive below.

There would be no need for love if perfection were possible. Love arises from our imperfection, from our being different and always in need of the forgiveness, encouragement and that missing half of ourselves that we are searching for, as the Greek myth tells us, in order to complete ourselves.

Psychotherapy is what God has been secretly doing for centuries by other names; that is, he searches through our personal history and heals what needs to be healed - the wounds of childhood or our own self-inflicted wounds.