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Quotes About Seeking

Fans write to us via our publisher and more than ever via the Internet, blogs and fan sites, and good writers should be actively seeking out that interaction. Gone are the days when writers are dead or hidden away in dusty attics; nowadays, you've got to get out there.
~ Chris Riddell
In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.
~ Uwe Boll
A man who wants trouble can find it anywhere.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Sometimes there's no way amends can be made, mangled piles of frayed rope retwined. Sometimes life must remain fragile ... and sometimes forgiveness, while always sought, cannot be achieved, amends cannot be made.
~ Unknown
To find the Scythe of Nen, I first had to find possibly the most elusive quarry I'd ever had to locate in my entire seeking career: a virgin on an island full of college students.
~ Unknown
He waits every day with every answer we need, every comfort we crave, every affection we're desperate for, while we look everywhere else but at Him.
~ Unknown
In the West we are so addicted to the notion of progress that we project this idea onto our spiritual life, and can become very confused by the dawning realization that He whom we seek is always with us, that we are always close to Him but do not know it. The spiritual path is a process of revealing this nearness, the intimacy of love that is always with us.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
When you seek God, seek Him in your heart. – Yunus Emre
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
~ Lord Byron
But he who seeks the flowers of truth Must quit the garden for the field
~ Lord Byron
I want answers. I want the truth." "It will hurt," he said. "The truth does that sometimes. I don't care.
~ Jim Butcher
God rewards those who put Him first and seek to do His will.
~ Jim George
the principle of always seeking an alternative applies to nonviolence as well. It is this: If nonviolence is to be credible, it must answer the questions that violence purports to answer, but in a better way.
~ Jim Wallis
Seek, and you shall be disappointed. Knock, and the door shall be slammed in your face.
~ Jimmy Fallon
I have been looking all my life for history and have yet to find it.
~ Joan Didion
And honestly, Ive been begging for answers that you, and only you, can give to me. A voice crying loud Ive been crying for days now and as I start to run I stop to breathe.
~ Unknown
We learn in our guts, not just in our brain, that a life of joy is not in seeking happiness, but in experiencing and simply being the circumstances of our life as they are; not in fulfilling personal wants, but in fulfilling the needs of life
~ Charlotte Joko Beck
Most people who seek advice, are simply looking for affirmation. And they will seek as much 'advice' as it takes to get the affirmation they seek.
~ T Jay Taylor
To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.
~ John Churton Collins
Matthew 7:7; Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you.
~ Bible
Like all good students, I yearned for nothing but approval, even from fools.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
The man who seeks your advice too often is probably looking for praise rather than information.
~ Unknown
So instead of giving in to despair I chose active melancholy, in so far as I was capable of activity, in other words I chose the kind of melancholy that hopes, that strives and that seeks, in preference to the melancholy that despairs numbly and in distress.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
I do not say - far, very far be it from me to say - that I myself have the rayon blanc, but I am not ashamed to say that it exists, this White Light - and that I seek it, and only this do I consider simplicity.
~ Vincent Van Gogh