Quotes About Seeking

All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- forgotten poem

An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

There have been days when I sought respite from my life, only to find myself calling every hour to check on it.

Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.

No doubt any connoisseur, any collector, some bored old millionaire when he shows off his treasures, is seeking in your praise the resurrection and the life.

They were seeking out the treasure of their destiny, without actually wanting to live out their destiny.

When I seek you, my God, I seek a blessed life. I shall seek you, so that my soul may live.

Some folks hide and some folks seek, and seeking when its mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous, can be a form of hiding.

The old wanderlust had gotten into his blood, the joy of the unbound life, the joy of seeking, of hoping without limit.

SEEK AND YOU WILL FIND. DON'T BE WILLING TO ACCEPT AN ORDINARY LIFE.

Who are you, Nature? I live in you; for fifty years I have been seeking you, and I have not found you yet.

The desire for riches is simply the capacity for a larger life seeking fulfillment; every desire is the effort of an unexpressed possibility come into action.

Youth calls to age across the tired years: 'What have you found,' he cries, 'what have you sought?" 'What have you found,' age answers through his tears, 'What have you sought.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

The world is not a prison house; it is a spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell G-O-D wih the wrong blocks.

"Over the MountainsOf the Moon,Down the Valley of the Shadow,Ride, boldly ride,"The shade replied—"If you seek for Eldorado!"

My longing for truth was a single prayer.

I would indeed that love were longer-lived, And oaths were not so brittle as they are, But so it is, and nature has contrived To struggle on without a break thus far,— Whether or not we find what we are seeking Is idle, biologically speaking.

Try not to seek after the true Only cease to cherish opinions. (172)

Enquiring minds want to know.

I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see. I sought my God, but my God eluded me. I sought my brother and I found all three.

Why seek ye the living among the dead?

By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.