Quotes About Seeking

Once truth was known, it could not be unlearned, nor could it be forgotten, but lay always in the heart, a darkness for which all the years ahead would be spent seeking whatever light could be found to compensate.

When people think their lives are without meaning, they'll seek meaning even from the creepiest of charlatans

Do not seek truth; merely cease to cherish opinions.

Her life was her own now and if there was happiness to be found, it was up to her to seek it. She couldn't, wouldn't rely on anyone else ever again.

He said He would forgive us when we ask. If it's peace of mind you're seeking, it's available." "In church." "No." She pressed her hand over his heart. "You won't find what you're seeking in any building.

One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.

The best doctor is the one you run to, but that you cannot find.

If we are created to discover God, and we are, then our experience of Him is limited only by the diligence of our pursuit.

Feeling after God is dangerous business.

Jesus said in Matthew 6:33, "Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you." The way of the world is to go about and grab everything in sight. The world makes material possessions – food, clothing, money, houses, cars – its objective. But in this new life, if you make the will of God your objective, God will add these things. That saves a lot of worry if you know that God is the One doing the adding.

The Bible says, "Seek, and ye shall find," he thought. And said aloud to the vibrant air, "But there's no guarantee about what you'll find, is there?

seeking refuge from a world in which huge and mysterious forces were let loose to destruction.

In Bonaventure's view only one who is on a journey to God can really know God; faith seeks understanding through the path of love.

I had fallen in love. What I mean is: I had begun to recognize, to isolate the signs of one of those from the others, in fact I waited for these signs I had begun to recognize, I sought them, responded to those signs I awaited with other signs I made myself, or rather it was I who aroused them, these signs from her, which I answered with other signs of my own . . .

Amerigo avrebbe voluto continuare a scontrarsi con le cose, a battersi, eppure intanto raggiungere dentro di sé la calma al di là di tutto... Non sapeva cosa avrebbe voluto: capiva solo quant'era distante, lui come tutti, dal vivere come va vissuto quello che cercava di vivere

When you need to be loved, you take love wherever you can find it. When you are desperate to be loved, feel love, know love, you seek out what you think love should look like. When you find love, or what you think love is, you will lie, kill, and steal to keep it. But learning about real love comes from within. It cannot be given. It cannot be taken away. It grows from your ability to re-create within yourself, the essence of loving experiences you have had in your life.

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

68. "The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happinessÖ

In order to know the truth it is necessary to desire the truth, especially the truth that you do not know.

We do not live in a truth-seeking age. We live in a pleasure-seeking age. With pleasure as our goal, we are destined for disappointment. "The very fury with which people go on seeking pleasure is a proof that they have not found it.

I don't want a "holy" life of prayer and contemplation. I want a life of strife, lust, striving, seeking, struggling, and debauchery.

He wants us to search for Him as for hidden treasure, leaving no stone unturned.

The emptier a person f??l? in?id?, th? more he ???k? to fill th?t v?id outside.