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Quotes About Seeking

Why study authenticity if not to seek it? Try to ring some last truth from that word before it's so leeched of meaning that becomes a word casing, a shell without a bullet. A term that can be used only inside quotation marks.
~ Jennifer Egan
STEPHEN O'CONNOR Next to Nothing
~ Jennifer Egan
Job moans that it is wanton cruelty that suffering people, brutalized or in mourning, should have to relive their horrors in dreams. In fact, why should any of us, in seeking rest, be met with nightmares?
~ Jennifer Hecht
I've always had a huge fear of dying or becoming ill. The thing I'm most afraid of, though, is being alone, which I think a lot of performers fear. It's why we seek the limelight - so we're not alone, were adored. We're loved, so people want to be around us. The fear of being alone drives my life.
~ Jennifer Lopez
It's exhausting, constantly having to search for the people you love.
~ Jennifer Niven
Friendships-in-God are not found by seeking friendship, but by seeking God. Those who draw closer to God find such friendships simply burst upon them. These bombshells of intense affection explode without warning in our lives. But they are good surprises.
~ Emilie Griffin
To-day, I will seek not the shadowy region; Its unsustaining vastness waxes drear; And visions rising, legion after legion, Bring the unreal world too strangely near.
~ Emily Bronte
None cannot find who seeketh, on this terrestrial ball...
~ Emily Dickinson
The heaven we chase
~ Emily Dickinson
Will there really be a Morning? Is there such a thing as Day? Could I see it from the mountains If I were as tall as they? Has it feet like Water lilies? Has it feathers like a Bird? Is it brought from famous countries Of which I have never heard? Oh some Scholar! Oh some Sailor! Oh some Wise Men from the skies! Please to tell a little Pilgrim Where the place called Morning lies!
~ Emily Dickinson
I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain There's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line And the less I seek my source for some definitive The closer I am to fine.
~ Emily Saliers
Who are these people whose admiration you seek? Aren't they the ones you are used to describing as mad? Well, then, is that what you want – to be admired by lunatics?
~ Epictetus
W obu ?wiatach prawd? jest, ?e je?li szukasz dobra i prawdy, pi?kno znajdzie si? samo.
~ Eric Gill
People are confused and unsure, they seek answers to guide them to joy, tranquillity, self-knowledge, salvation?but they also demand that it be easy to learn, that it require little or no effort, that results be quickly obtained.
~ Erich Fromm
All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name." "Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself
~ Andre Breton
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
~ Andre Gide
Who seeks may find, who lives may learn, who loves is blessed.
~ Andre Norton
Hell is a choice because salvation is available to anyone who seeks it.
~ Andrew Davidson
Let my soul in its journey into you Never rest anywhere.
~ Andrew Harvey
Man has throughout the ages been seeking something beyond himself, beyond material welfare - something we call truth or God or reality, a timeless state - something that cannot be disturbed by circumstances, by thought or by human corruption.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.
~ Sam Harris
If you don't have much passion, well, get on your face and pray for the passion and get into the word of God. That's what I've been sharing. That's the whole concept.
~ Jeremy Camp
It's impossible to see the face of Jesus without seeking that face in some concentrated way, in the practice of the faith, through prayer and action.
~ Jay Parini
Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.
~ Edward Dahlberg