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I don't know where I am.
~ Ron Koertge
Buscaba el Paraíso porque ignoraba que era un lugar inexistente.
~ Rosa Montero
Nadie puede decir si habríamos insistido, dada la pobreza de nuestros medios de investigación, si hubiésemos conocido la verdadera proporción de lo que estábamos buscando»
~ Rosa Montero
uns fogem do amor e outros procuram com sofreguidão, mas no fim o que fica, em todos, é a mesma coisa, uma insuportável sensação de vazio.
~ Rubem Fonseca
Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges -- Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!
~ Rudyard Kipling
The sin is mine and the punishment is mine. I made believe to myself for now I see it was but make-belief—that thou wast sent to me to aid in the Search. So my heart went out to thee for thy charity and thy courtesy and the wisdom of thy little years.
~ Rudyard Kipling
hunt among these hills for the next moon, so he has told me.
~ Rudyard Kipling
What you seek is seeking you.
~ Rumiko Takahashi
I thought that if could bring back the memory, I could bring back the feeling, and I would know for the first time what I truly wanted for myself, and then I would go and find it. That was my plan. But memories are always of things lost and gone and never returning.
~ Russell Banks
If you don't know what you want, you'll never find it.
~ Ry? Murakami
En aquel entonces, la literatura parecía serlo todo. En ella se buscaba fuerzas para vivir, señales para enfilar uno u otro camino, una revelación.
~ Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski
History is an intricate process. It errs, advances and retreats, searches here, there, and sometimes gets trapped in a dead end. Only the future can judge, can find appropriate measure.
~ Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski
Cuando una muchacha no despierta en nosotros desde la primera mirada una impresión tan viva que cree una imagen ideal de sí misma, generalmente no es digna de que nos tomemos el trabajo de buscarla en la realidad. Pero si despierta en nosotros esa imagen, pese a nuestra experiencia, nos sentimos dominados y vencidos por una desconocida fuerza.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
We strive for heights bit our natures betray us, Chamcha thought; clowns in search of crowns. The bitterness overcame him
~ Salman Rushdie
If a hungry dog looks for food, he does not look in the doghouse.
~ Salman Rushdie
No shortage of explanations for life's mysteries. Explanations are two a penny these days. The truth, however, is altogether harder to find
~ Salman Rushdie
Ez az istenimádat-dolog, az énnek e megtagadása a Mindenható színe elÅ'tt csak figyelemelterelés, hamis nyom. Akárhol rejlik is a jóság, semmikép nem egy istenségnek szóló szertartásos, gondolkodás nélküli tiszteletadásban, hanem inkább az egyéni vagy közös út lassú, esetlen, hibákkal tarkított keresésében.
~ Salman Rushdie
I'm not denying the importance of achieving one's goals, maintaining one's health, or keeping one's children clothed and fed—but most of us spend our time seeking happiness and security without acknowledging the underlying purpose of our search. Each of us is looking for a path back to the present: We are trying to find good enough reasons to be satisfied now.
~ Sam Harris
Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength - in search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
~ Alice Walker
Nothing is ever lost, Sarah. Nothing that can't be found.
~ Stephen King, The Dead Zone
We have to have a strong law enforcement in America. So we do not go abroad in the search of war, we really are searching for peace, but it is peace through strength.
~ Donald Trump
Most people search high and wide for the key to success. If they only knew, the key to their dreams lies within.
~ George Washington Carver
The probability of success is difficult to estimate; but if we never search the chance of success is zero.
~ Philip Morrison
Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.
~ Russell Conwell