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Quotes About Seeking

It's time for you to move, realizing that the thing you are seeking is also seeking you.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
What you are longing for is longing for you.
~ Ralph Marston
I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
Understanding does not come through analysis;understanding comes only when the mind is very quite,unburdened,no longer seeking success and therefore being thwarted,afraid of faluire.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
M. Danglars, who had listened to all this preamble with imperturbable coolness, but without understanding a word, engaged as he was, like every man burdened with thoughts of the past, in seeking the thread of his own ideas in those of the speaker.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Whoever seeks anything from freedom but freedom itself is doomed to slavery.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
How could I lose you when I haven't even found you?
~ Alice Hoffman
With the infallibility of a sleepwalker, she will seek out those who, like her parents (though for different reasons), certainly cannot understand her. Because of her blindness caused by repression, she will try to make herself understandable to precisely these people—trying to make possible what cannot be.
~ Alice Miller
I loved taking off. In my own house, I seemed to be often looking for a place to hide--sometimes from the children but more often from the jobs to be done and the phone ringing and the sociability of the neighborhood. I wanted to hide so that I could get busy at my real work, which was a sort of wooing of distant parts of myself. I lived in a state of siege, always losing just what I wanted to hold on to[...] It was being a watcher that did it. A watcher, not a keeper.
~ Alice Munro
Has encontrado a Dios alguna vez en la iglesia? Yo, nunca. Solo a un puñado de gente que espera que se les manifieste. Si alguna vez he encontrado a Dios en la iglesia es porque ya lo llevaba conmigo. Y lo mismo le pasa a los demás. La gente va a la iglesia a compartir a Dios, o a buscarlo.
~ Alice Walker
You too must seek the sun...
~ Allen Ginsberg
Many seek and never see, anyone can tell them why. O they weep and O they cry and never take until they try unless they try it in their sleep and never some until they die. I ask many, they ask me. This is a great mystery.
~ Allen Ginsberg
happiness may come if not sought, but if looked for will never be seen;
~ Ambrose Bierce
And the knowledge of how to stay sane in this rapidly worsening situation can seem hard to come by - as if it's hiding away from our crude, self-obsessed, materialistic culture. Consequently many people live and die without ever knowing such wisdom exists, (though perhaps it was never withheld from those who sincerely sought it).
~ Joe Griffin
Time taken from family activity and business to seek God's blessing is never wasted.
~ Joel R. Beeke
Your prayer will not be an asking or a seeking for any thing; it will be an asking and a seeking and a knocking for more light, greater spiritual wisdom, greater discernment.
~ Joel S. Goldsmith
through prayer, you can be reunited with your Source. Your prayer will not be an asking or a seeking for any thing; it will be an asking and a seeking and a knocking for more light, greater spiritual wisdom, greater discernment.
~ Joel S. Goldsmith
A reader who seeks after truth might become a hypochondriac out of dread.
~ Johann Georg Hamann
Do you wish to roam farther and farther?See! The Good lies so near.Only learn to seize good fortune,For good fortune's always here.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Seeking with the soul the land of the Greeks.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
By seeking and blundering we learn.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There are men who love their like and seek it; others love their opposite and follow after it.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Und zuletzt, des Lichts begierig, Bist du Schmetterling verbrannt
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In my dreams I found a little of the beauty I had vainly sought in life, and wandered through old gardens and enchanted woods.
~ H. P. Lovecraft