Quotes About Elusive

Serenity is a very elusive quality. I've been trying all my life to find it.

All doctrine is ultimately the death of joy - even when the doctrine is the elevation of the light above the serious, because joy is too varied and elusive ever to confine itself to one or the other.

Dependence, humility, simplicity, cooperation, and a sense of abandon are qualities greatly prized in the spiritual life, but extremely elusive for people who live in comfort.

Dependence, humility, simplicity, cooperation, and a sense of abandon are qualities greatly prized in the spiritual life, but extremely elusive for

Even when acceptance is achieved and a degree of happiness attained, joy often remains elusive forever, like a promise of water in a dry well once brimming but now holding only the deep, damp smell of past sustenance. Yet

Sometimes truth was elusive...

The best doctor is the one you run to, but that you cannot find.

Carlos Condit does the best job of being the counterstriking guy that is very elusive.

In my long experience, one thing I know is that truth is elusive.

A perfect life is like a cloud. You can reach it, but you can't always see it.

That wish to enter into an elusive element which had urged Cosimo into the trees, was still working now inside him unsatisfied, making him long for a more intimate link, a relationship which would bind him to each leaf and twig and feather and flutter.

But earth and heart don't have much of a membrane between them. Sometimes decided on grounds as elusive as that single transposable h , this matter of siting ourselves. Of a place insisting itself to us.

In the mid-1960s, two soon-to-be-legendary University of Chicago social scientists—Jacob Getzels and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi—began studying the elusive subject of creativity.

In the middle, we relax our standards, perhaps because others relax their assessments of us. At midpoints, for reasons that are elusive but enlightening, we cut corners—as one last experiment shows. Touré-Tillery and Fishbach also engaged other participants

A cat determined not to be found can fold itself up like a pocket handkerchief if it wants to.

culture is a blob of mercury. Whenever you try to put a finger on it, it takes a different shape.

Love is blind, hard to find, difficult to get, and impossible to forget.

Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy.

We pursue that which retreats from us.

I wish I could find words--serious, beautiful words--to describe it in the afternoon sunlight; the more I strive for them, the more they utterly elude me.

They passed out of the shade beneath the eaves and flew into sunglare and silence and it was an action she only partly saw, elusive and mutely beautiful, the birds so sunstruck they were consumed by light, disembodied, turned into something sheer and fleet and scatter-bright.

But, if I dare say it, it wasn't until I had helped kill a man that I realized how elusive and complex an act a murder can actually be, and not necessarily attributable to one dramatic motive.

happiness manifests itself both personally and collectively as an elusive and deceiving ghost that refuses to let anyone catch it.

He was as uncontainable as a handful of water: if you squeezed, it trickled away.