Quotes About Seeking

Openness used to be the virtue that permitted us to seek the good by using reason.

Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.

This is the end, the redemption from Wilderness, way for the Wonderer, House sought for All, black handkerchief washed clean by weeping.

Justice isn't always served in the courts. Sometimes it's served by those who seek it.

Sometimes, people run to see if anybody will come after them.

No. Merely a trick of the light. But I had the impression you were seeking something more formal than'Okay, go for it,' as Ven would say," Alaric said, a hint of a smile surfacing. "Looked pretty impressive,didn't it? It's a priest thing.

And the fact of the matter is there were thousands of people that went through those training camps in Afghanistan. We know they are seeking deadlier weapons - chemical, biological and nuclear weapons if they can get it.

Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.

I am not seeking any position in a Dole Administration.

The process of seeking fame is a process of seeking dehumanization. You are looking for it. You want it. But you only want the good parts of it. You want the part where people see you as just a collection of positive things and nothing else.

There's only one reason we live. It's very simple. To find the creator. That's just my understanding.

Practice being curious; want to know things; ask questions.

I was born curious.

I'm insatiably curious.

People are innately curious.

I think I'm just a naturally curious person.

People have crossed the Himalayas in flip-flops seeking a blessing from the Dalai Lama.

If we are hungry enough for God, we will find a way into His presence. We should be so hungry for the presence of God that we absolutely will not go out of our house or tackle any kind of project until we have spent some time with Him.

Depression and anxiety affect a huge number of us. It's so important that the barriers that keep us from talking, seeking out help, and finding a way to cope when things feel desperate are removed.

Or even wanted to experience! But

Remember the heart of the Father; he is like a shepherd who will risk anything to find that one lost sheep. We do not have to make God willing to forgive. In fact, it is God who is working to make us willing to seek his forgiveness.

Humility, as we all know, is one of those virtues that is never gained by seeking it. The more we pursue it the more distant it becomes. To think we have it is sure evidence that we don't.

There are times when I feel you might be searching for me, when I can read what is written on the far sides of stars. — Richard Jackson, from "Alternate Endings," Resonance (The Ashland Poetry Press, 2010)

If you cannot find yourself on the page very early in life, you will go looking for yourself in all the wrong places.