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Quotes About Seeking

I have been restless for as long as I can remember.
~ Henry Rollins
It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.
~ Wallace Stevens
My nature is... well... I'm a searcher by nature. I'm constantly searching for something; that's why I have a song called 'Looking for Something.' How do I do it? I read a lot of spiritual books; I meditate.
~ Vonda Shepard
If you haven't created the time as an owner to understand why people are choosing your model over your competition, then you are only managing the business that comes in the door, not actively seeking it out.
~ Michael Gerber
Pray knowing that you pray to your heavenly Father. Pray in confidence that when you ask you will receive; when you seek you will find; when you knock it will be opened. Pray knowing that you pray to a God who doesn't give stones or serpents to his kids. Believe Jesus, and pray accordingly.
~ Peter Leithart
Let me say to those who practice the way: Seeking worthless things exhausts your mind. People have a spiritual essence, beyond words or description. When you call on it, it responds clearly, when it is hidden, you don't know where it is. Keep it well, don't let it be stained.
~ Peter Levitt
Soon the child's clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions, and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor of the ego. Not until years later does an instinct come that a vital sense of mystery has been withdrawn. The sun glints through the pines and the heart is pierced in a moment of beauty and strange pain, like a memory of paradise. After that day, we become seekers.
~ Peter Matthiessen
God doesn't want us to sit around all our lives in a passive way, waiting for something good to happen. He wants us to be proactive, with His help, in seeking out good things for ourselves.
~ Peter Murphy
sinful activities are whatever we do with the goal of bringing us into proximity with that which we believe will fill the void in our existence.
~ Peter Rollins
He releases the curse in order to drive us to our knees and to seek him, to recognize our need for a Savior (Gal. 3:21–25). The problem is instead of being broken by the thorns and thistles of life and thus coming to Christ, we either flee, fight, or hide.
~ Peter Scazzero
?nsan, çekti?i ?st?rap nispetinde zevk duyar: Ne kadar ac?k?rsa yemekten, ne kadar yorulursa dinlenmekten, ne kadar ararsa bulmaktan o derece zevk al?r.
~ Peyami Safa
If they can't find those answers in your holy writings, they'll move on to the next person's holy writings.
~ Philip Athans
Dzogchen Tantra when it suggests: 'As a bee seeks nectar from all kinds of flowers, seek teachings everywhere. Like a deer that finds a quiet place to graze, seek seclusion to digest all that you have gathered. Like a mad one beyond all limits, go where you please and live like a lion, completely free of all fear.
~ Philip Carr-Gomm
Treadwell's stocks plenty of second-hand books, which Virginia Woolf called 'Wild Books, Homeless Books', because, explains Christina, 'they have already had a journey, so they have extra energy in them from where they have been before, and they're looking for a home'.
~ Philip Carr-Gomm
For those who have not yet grasped the Way but are seeking the Way, I say: Emptiness, single-mindedness, and stillness—make these be your principles. If
~ Philip J. Ivanhoe
Only one ship is seeking us, a black- Sailed unfamiliar, towing at her back A huge and birdless silence. In her wake No waters breed or break.
~ Philip Larkin
Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. St. Thomas Aquinas
~ Phyllis A. Tickle
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
~ Pierre Abelard
I do think it's important, if you're going to be very creative, to be a seeker.
~ Walter Isaacson
If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
~ Eden Phillpotts
My whole life has been one of seeking experience.
~ Jerry Kramer
We're all seeking order. We're all seeking control.
~ Michael Connelly
Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking.
~ Jean Racine
I'm definitely seeking to challenge tropes.
~ Kelela