Quotes About Searching

In many parts of the world the people are searching for a solution which would link the two basic values: peace and justice. The two are like bread and salt for mankind.

This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for.

I'm running out of places I can run, looking for a place in the sun.

I hope it does not take the rest of my life until I find what it is I've been looking for.

I'm doing philosophy like an old woman, first I'm looking for my pencil, then I'm looking for my glasses, then I'm looking for my pencil again.

When I am searching for something, it is always waiting for me with open arms.

People spend their entire lives searching the world for the pieces that will make them whole, yet those pieces are only found within them.

Most people don't know what they want in their life! What an irony their life has become!

We can't be searching for the meaning of life, at each moment of our life! We need to go out there and live each moment!

We are always searching for a cave to fit in.

the rest of my days I spend wandering: wondering what, anyway, was that sticky infusion, that rank flavor of blood, that poetry, by which I lived?

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

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.

Sometimes I feel as if there's an explanation to my life that continues to escape me; that I've missed something noble, something sublime; that in some way I have cheated myself...life is so strange, so harsh.

I stood there in the kitchen, watching her staring across the meadow still searching for her nemesis and I thought, suddenly, that this is all our lives - this is the one fact that applies to us all, that makes us what we are, our common mortality, our common humanity. One day someone is going to come and take us away: you don't need to have been a spy, I thought, to feel like this.

Even when he'd arrived he'd had restless eyes, eyes that were always looking about as if he might notice some place he'd rather be and head out for it immediately.

The meditation, the tatami mats and ceremonial teas, the calm words coming from an apparently calm center were all fronts. What he was really searching for was an emotional desert to call his own.

Art is like hard digging. Without daily searching, nothing can be found. Art is like hard digging. Without daily searching, nothing can be found.

Because in all my own searching, I know now what the true meaning and purpose of life is. It is to be happy. To feel joy. That is why evil will always conquer itself in time.

Senti, forse ti cerco già da anni, ti cerco disordinatamente, a casaccio, e continuo a brancolare. Capisco che ti sto cercando da molto tempo come uno che cerca una finestra in una stanza piena di fumo.

Gli argini della memoria» aveva detto Joseph. Che espressione misteriosa, come se la memoria fosse un fiume. Ed era così che Tushi vedeva Joseph adesso: in riva a un fiume, con i pantaloni arrotolati sopra le caviglie e le lunghe gambe che sguazzavano nell'acqua mentre si chinava a setacciare il limo, la sabbia e il fango che erano la sua storia. Cosa avrebbe dragato prima dell'alba? Qualcosa che l'avrebbe aiutato? Tushi lo sperava, ma non ne era sicura. 

wandering between two worlds, one lost, the other powerless to be born.

Is there a God? Is there an afterlife?... I think that now, more so than ever, people are much more willing to take the time and question what's out there.

We are always searching for God afar off, when all the while He is nearer to us than our own soul.