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Quotes About Seeking

I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see, I sought my god, but my god eluded me; And then I sought my sisters and my brothers, and in them I found all three.
~ Baba Amte
I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.
~ Margaret Oliphant
God seeks us where we are, not so that we stay there, but so that we may come to be where He is, so that we may get beyond ourselves.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
What we love determines what we seek. What we seek determines what we think and do. What we think and do determines who we are — and who we will become.
~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Who seeks, and will not take, when once 'tis offer'd, Shall never find it more.
~ William Shakespeare
Anyone who genuinely and consistently with both hands look for something, will find it.
~ Rumi
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
~ Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
~ Hermann Hesse
The fear of being different prevents most people from seeking new ways to solve their problems.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
Whatever you are looking for is also looking for you. You see, don't only look. Be available and ready when it shows up
~ Sahndra Fon Dufe
God seeks us as eagerly as we seek God.
~ Forrest Church
Wisdom is something that seeks itself. The wiser you become the more you'd like to know.
~ Frederick Lenz
In my cheapest moments I am apt to think that it is n't my business to be "seeking the spirit," but as much its business to be seeking me.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The ego doesn't know that the source of all energy is within you, so it seeks it outside.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Everything else can wait but your search for God cannot wait.
~ Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda
I seek to find, so I search.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Stop the world, I wanna get on!
~ Leopold "Leo" Bloom
Who's to say? Life is not, as we are taught, a matter of seeking answers, but rather learning which are the questions we should ask.
~ Kate Mosse, The Winter Ghosts
Why do you chase the wind?
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
True repentence is to depart from evil. A return to God, seeking his grace for power to obey him.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
You sought a flower and found a fruit. You sought a spring and found a sea. You sought a woman and found a soul - you are disappointed.
~ Edith Södergran
Do you think we find Jesus, or does He find us?
~ J.I. Willett
Let thy pilgrimage be a prayer.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita