Quotes About Search

No wonder Americans seemed crazy to everybody else--they were utterly alone in the vastness of this ridiculously immense land. They all skittered about, alighting and flying off again like frantic butterflies. Looking for--what? What were they looking for?

No conozco a los hombres. Años llevo De buscarles y huirles sin remedio. ¿No les comprendo? ¿O acaso les comprendo Demasiado? Del poema 'A un poeta futuro' del libro Como quien espera el alba

yo creo que a mí no me tocó destino o si me tocó se me perdió en el camino

The act of writing and the act of love… are one and the same. Equivalent enquiry, similar search.

My counsel is, that we draw water from the true source and fountain, that is, that we diligently search the Scriptures. He who wholly possesses the text of the Bible, is a consummate divine.

We know we are very special," Davis writes in "Special": "Yet we keep trying to find out in what way: not this way, not that way, then what way?" (from James Wood's review of the FSG "Collected Stories of Lydia Davis")

Dedilhou o pulso estático numa busca tão intensa que acabou por transferir para o pulso da morta o latejar do próprio dedo inflamado.

A busca nos caminhos da infância, "sou um arco em tuas mãos, Senhor. Distenda-o para que não apodreça". Os encontros e as despedidas, tanta estrada, tanta, teria que usar sapatos de ferro como os da rainha da história antiquíssima cruzando montanhas e vales, procurava alguma coisa - o quê?

Os encontros e as despedidas, tanta estrada, tanta, teria que usar sapatos de ferro como os da rainha da história antiquíssima cruzando montanhas e vales, procurava alguma coisa - o quê?!

Whether we know it or not, we are all in a quest after the Great Companion. All study, all art, all music, all literature, all government, all industry are in essence a search after the Infinite.

Light at the end of the tunnel We don't even have a tunnel we don't even know where the tunnel is.

The noblest search is the search for excellence

I know there's a road laid out. Just need to find the trail.

Bitterness is like a weed. Remember how hard it always was to pull out thistles once they root? Remember how deep those roots grow, and how if you just snapped off the end of it, the plant would grow right back? You have to dig down deep inside. Let God search your heart. Let Him show you what's there and help you root out all that bitterness. Then you can pray for forgiveness.

How are we to spend our lives, anyway? That is the real question. We read to seek the answer, and the search itself--the task of a lifetime--becomes the answer.

We all flee in hope of finding some ground of security

It is likely you are not a witch. But you are something else. Something you have not found yet. And that is why you go P.240

In the middle of the road of my life, I awoke in a dark wood, where the true way was wholly lost.

beauty reassures. This is especially important to our search here for the grace beauty offers our life with God. We need reassuring. Beauty reassures us that goodness is still real in the world, more real than harm or scarcity or evil. Beauty reassures us of abundance, especially that God is absolutely abundant in goodness and in life. Beauty reassures us there is plenty of life to be had. I believe beauty reassures us that the end of this Story is wonderful.

I am looking for my heart.

The greatest human tragedy is to give up the search. Nothing is of greater importance than the life of our deep heart. To lose heart is to lose everything.

For the search for wholeness compels every person, every hour of their lives, whether they know it or not. We ache to be made whole again. And only one Person who ever walked this earth can do this for the heart and soul he created himself.

The eyes of the LORD search the whole earth in order to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him" (2 Chronicles 16:9 NLT).

It is me. I am his madness. For years he's been looking for something to put his madness into. And he found me.