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Quotes About Seeking

You have to look to find. You have to ask to have the answers. You have to awaken to become.
~ Nora Roberts
Todos procuram. Os afortunados encontram. (...) Os sensatos aceitam.
~ Nora Roberts
could feel the power of it, of her across the dream. And he knew she was seeking him out. Even in sleep he felt the pull of her, and that same impatience he'd sensed from her within his circle, within his own time. It seemed for an instant that their
~ Nora Roberts
his lazy eye drifting around the room like a child looking for the bathroom.
~ Chuck Klosterman
I'm not God. --Then find someone who is, man.
~ Colum McCann
Meaning orientation had subsided, and consequently the seeking of immediate pleasure had taken over.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
So therefore you must lift up your eyes and seek to discern this bough, find it as is required of you, and pick it boldly.Then, if it is indeed you whom the fates are calling, it will come willingly and easily
~ Virgil
Some people go to priests; others to poetry...I to my own heart, I to seek among phrases and fragments something unbroken.
~ Virginia Woolf
I to my friends, to my own heart, I to seek among phrases and fragments something unbroken.
~ Virginia Woolf
To seek a true feeling among the chaos of the unfeelings or half-feelings of life, to recognize it when found, and to accept the consequences of the discovery, draws lines upon the smoothest brow, while it quickens the light of the eyes; it is a pursuit which is alternately bewildering, debasing, and exalting, and as Katherine speedily found, her discoveries gave her equal cause for surprise, shame, and intense anxiety.
~ Virginia Woolf
Desiring truth, awaiting it, laboriously distilling a few words, forever desiring ---
~ Virginia Woolf
But if one day you do not come after breakfast, if one day I see you in some looking-glass perhaps looking after another, if the telephone buzzes and buzzes in your empty room, I shall then, after unspeakable anguish, I shall then - for there is no end to the folly of the human heart - seek another, find another, you.
~ Virginia Woolf
The words we seek hang close to the tree. We come at dawn and find them sweet beneath the leaf.
~ Virginia Woolf
He was powerless because he had no precise desire, and this tortured him because he was vainly seeking something to desire. He could not even make himself stretch out his hand to switch on the light. The simple transition from intention to action seemed an unimaginable miracle.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I discovered in nature the non utilitarian delights that I sought in art. Both were a form of magic, both were a game of intricate enchantment and deception.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
He was powerless because he had no precise desire, and this tortured him because he was vainly seeking something to desire.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I think seeking perfection in human affairs is a perfect way to destroy them.
~ lanier jaron
We are a people captivated by the power and romance of metaphor, forever seeking the invisible through the image of the visible.
~ lapham lewis h
Augustine wrote that God sometimes does not give us what we ask in prayer. "Of His bounty, the Lord often grants not what we seek, so as to bestow something preferable.
~ Lauren F. Winner
OH THAT I COULD GO TO THE SKY WHERE I MIGHT FIND A CLEAR KNOWING.
~ Lauren Slater
marks the entrance to the strait that Magellan had sought for more than two years.
~ Laurence Bergreen
Guides will give various practices, but rarely do Murids perform them and even more rarely with any kind of consistency. Many people run around from Sheikh to Sheikh or therapist to therapist, trying to get answers. Often the problem is that these people never truly put into effect the answers they have already been given. Rather than always looking for more, more, more, they should use what they have already been given.
~ Laurence Galian
For example, when children do not get the connection they need, they grow up both seeking and fearing connection. When children do not get their needs met, they do not learn to recognize what they need, are unable to express their needs, and often feel undeserving of having their needs met.
~ Laurence Heller
Hoca ö?retmen oldu, talebe ö?renci. Ö?retmen ne demek? Ne so?uk ne haysiyetsiz, ne çirkin kelime. Hoca ö?retmez, yeti?tirir, ayd?nlat?r, yarat?r. Ö?renci ne demek? Talebe isteyendir; isteyen, arayan, susayan.
~ Cemil Meriç