Quotes About Seeking

Find what you want. I will find you.

Once, he added, you told me that the seeking counts more than the finding. So, too, must the striving count more than the gain.

He is here now, Taran said quietly. He has long sought you and in ways even he himself did not know. Now that he has found you, can you not find your path back to him?

If you made mistakes, you recognize them. As I told you, there are times when the seeking counts more than the finding.

Then said the gods: "Let Us make one to seek, to seek and never to find out concerning the wherefore of the making of the gods." And They made by the lifting of Their hands, each god according to his sign, the Bright One with the flaring tail to seek from the end of the Worlds to the end of them again, to return again after a hundred years. Man, when thou seest the comet, know that another seeketh besides thee nor ever findeth out.

It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and love for a time in the wilderness.

Must one seek something? I seek to be seeking, as I learn to be learning. Each book is an adventure as is each day's horizon.

Ultimately, what I am seeking in the photograph taken of me... is Death: Death is the eidos of that Photograph

What I do shows me what I am seeking.

Agg'ié nagné 'eggins anyg nein'yié. [What I do shows me what I am seeking.] —Sulagnés, artist from the planet Gnío

When people lose control of their emotions, they tend to seek absolute satisfaction from the object of their fury. And since absolute satisfaction does not exist in this world, I knew she was going to rave on until she reached a state of exhaustion, and a certain queer sense of fulfillment.

That the strength of Europe and of its culture, in contrast to other cultures, lies in its bent for criticism, above all, for self-criticism—in its art of analysis and inquiry, in its endless seeking, in its restlessness.

one cannot seek for what he knows, and it seems equally impossible for him to seek for what he does not know. For what a man knows he cannot seek, since he knows it; and what he does not know he cannot seek, since he does not even know for what to seek.

In the deepest sense you shall make yourself nothing, become nothing before God, learn to be silent. In this silence is the beginning, which is to seek first God's kingdom

The actor's life offers, on a daily basis, the simulacrum of love; a mask can be satisfied, or at least consoled, by the echo of what it seeks.

If a hungry dog looks for food, he does not look in the doghouse.

In my stolen photographs -- for the photographer must be a thief, he must steal instants of other people's time to make his own tiny eternities -- it was this intimacy I sought, hte closeness of the living and the dead.

the deepest goal of spirituality is freedom from the illusion of the self—and to seek such freedom, as though it were a future state to be attained through effort, is to reinforce the chains of one's apparent bondage in each moment.

He is not seeking a powerful people to represent Him. Rather, He looks for all those who are weak, foolish, despised, and written off: and He inhabits them with His own strength.

In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.

Prayer for worldly goods is worse than fruitless, but prayer for strength of soul is that passion of the soul which catches the gift it seeks.

The secret of spiritual success is a hunger that persists…It is an awful condition to be satisfied with one's spiritual attainments…God was and is looking for hungry, thirsty people.

There is a third dimension to traveling, the longing for what is beyond.

Instead of seeking success we should look for fulfillment. And fulfillment is giving total attention to the process of living.