Quotes About Searching

My fear was like a stray dog, roving the neighborhood of my life, looking for a new source of worry.

I'm trying to figure things out in the world. No one knows what this life thing is all about - there's no manual. Just trying to figure it out.

Each moment spent searching is also a moment spent finding.

The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn't get lost enough.

Who we are looking for is who is looking.

I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.

All my adult life I have been searching for the right adjective to describe my father's peculiarly aggressive comic style. I recently settled on 'defamatory.

Quit looking for an answer, Jim. There fuckin' ain't one. Fuck yeah, I'm still looking for God's telephone number.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

Sertão - si dice -, se uno lo va cercando non lo trova mai. Di colpo, di per sé, quando la gente non se l'aspetta, il sertão viene.

As long as one keeps searching, the answers come.

Your bed was empty today When I looked for you Why?

their youth and their ignorance of who they were and what they really wanted.

Instead of wisdom -- experience, bare, That does not slake thirst, is not wet. Youth's gone -- like a Sunday prayer. Is it mine to forget? On how many desert roads have searched I With him who wasn't dear for me, How many bows gave in church I For him, who had well loved me. I've become more oblivious than inviting, Quietly years swim. Lips unkissed, eyes unsmiling -- Nothing will give me back him.

So this was how he lived now, getting jittery because a bus pulled up near. Well, he was not going on like that. It was not good enough. The one person who could help him had not appeared. He probably never would. But there must be some other way. He knew that there was another way although for the moment he couldn't think what it was. Soon it would come back to him, in a minute he would remember the way out, the way where he was going.

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.

If we don't find what we seek what happen then? Nothing? Everything? Are we set free by our failure, or are we doomed because we failed to find the answer that would have saved us? And how are we supposed to know the difference?

What sense is there in pain at all—however we contrive it for ourselves as we cast about for ways to bind up the wound between us and God?

pulse raced, and she found her

Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. MATTHEW 13:45

I didn't feel at home in life.

Am I to bless the lost you, sitting here with my clumsy soul?

I spent years searching for effective programs that would lower drug use and prevent addiction.