Quotes About Seeking

I could hear Dean, blissful and blabbering and frantically rocking. Only a guy who's spent five years in jail can go to such maniacal helpless extremes; beseeching at the portals of the soft source, mad with a completely physical realization of the origins of life-bliss; blindly seeking to return the way he came.

Art has been for me, when I did not deceive myself, a meager compensation for what I desire. I am bored with these frantic cravings, tired of them and therefore myself, and contemptuous, though tolerant, of all my vast powers of self-pity and self-expressive misery. What am I? What do I seek?

I wandered all these years among A world of women, seeking you.

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Due to mistakenly believing that outer problems are their own problems, most people seek ultimate refuge in the wrong objects. As a result, their suffering and problems never end.

I briefly flirted with some of the new age offerings available in the early '90s and found strength in Buddhism, but ultimately I was looking for something that was not tied to tradition.

The Browns have unbelievable medical resources. I'm always seeking the best help and advice possible. I'll continue to do that even when my career is over.

The subjectivist in morals, when his moral feelings are at war with the facts about him, is always free to seek harmony by toningdown the sensitiveness of the feelings.

Trouble cannot be avoided, you either go looking for it or it will come looking for you.

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

If you search everywhere, yet cannot find what you are seeking, it is because what you seek is already in your possession.

Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside.

Nothing is difficult, if you seek it through your Lord; nothing is easy, if you seek it through your self.

For those who have an intense urge for Spirit and wisdom, it sits near them, waiting.

These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.

My request is not for bliss of the Garden. I only desire to see You.

Whatever pearl you seek, look for the pearl within the pearl!

Bestow upon me, O Lord my God, understanding to know thee, diligence to seek thee, wisdom to find thee, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace thee.

In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same.

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

Remind yourself that all men assert that wisdom is the greatest good, but that there are few who strenuously seek out that greatest good.