Quotes About Seeking

I looked for you in everyone And they called me on that too I lived alone but I was only Coming back to you

Though I don't believe, I come to you now, and I lift my doubt to your mercy.

and I abroad, and there I searched

Reading seeks for the sweetness of a blessed life, meditation perceives it, prayer asks for it, contemplation tastes it.

We don't need to travel to find Christ. Christ has already traveled to find us. God is not the one whose back is turned. It is we who, for whatever reason, get our backs up or don't turn back to God.

As long as your heart is open to the possibilities, you will find that whatever you're seeking is also seeking you!

if we seek, and are aware we have missed the moment we seek, our own absolute moment in time, then we live out our lives unfulfilled. In the words of an eastern proverb: we die with our eyes open – we cannot rest; even in death we are still looking for it.

Don't ask me why I obsessively look to rock 'n' roll bands for some kind of model for a better society. I guess it's just that I glimpsed something beautiful in a flashbulb moment once, and perhaps mistaking it for prophecy have been seeking its fulfillment ever since.

Truth is like the philosopher's stone, a thing not to be discovered.

We shall now seek that which we shall not find. —Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur

Nu ne îndrept?m spre Dumnezeu decât pentru a ob?ine imposibilul.

No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.

When you live in a house in L.A., you feel so isolated. You urge yourself to go and find the nooks and crannies where people are having a good time.

Capacity never lacks opportunity. It cannot remain undiscovered because it is sought by too many anxious to use it.

Everybody is looking for validation, no matter who you are, and I think that's a need of the human condition - to look for affection or recognition or validation.

I have never, ever sought validation from the arbiters of British poetic taste.

Jughead is one of those characters that takes the opinions of his father really seriously and probably seeks a bit of validation from him.

I felt invisible in my family, and I wanted to be significant like my brothers were significant. I wanted my parents to pay attention, so I went out into the world with that driving me, that grasping, that seeking validation.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

get very drunk. This is what refreshes him, participating in the illusion of another life, which is the same thing that we're always seeking when we travel: to get outside of ourselves and imagine new possibilities, however unlikely or unreal they are. Iceland remains ideal for this purpose. "It's what fantasies are made of," Hansson says. "This untamed wild, this alien landscape, this vastness.

The biblical picture of intimacy and love between the shepherd and the sheep is foreign to us. The oriental shepherd lived with his sheep. He slept with them out on the hillsides at night, as David must have done. He went out seeking the hundredth sheep, not satisfied with only ninety-nine in the fold.

When you don't know if there is anyone in the world like you, you seek contact with something living however you can.

I have just related the story of a missed vocation: I needed God, He was given to me, I received Him without realizing that I was seeking Him. Failing to take root in my heart, He vegetated in me for a while, then He died. Whenever anyone speaks to me about Him today, I say, with the easy amusement of an old beau who meets a former belle: Fifty years ago, had it not been for that misunderstanding, that mistake, the accident that separated us, there might have been something between us.

the buddhists say there are 149 ways to god. i'm not looking for god, only for myself, and that is far more complicated.