Quotes About Seeking

I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam.

if you're looking for enlightenment it's not going to happen on a oil tanker

The road to comfort is crowded and it rarely gets you there. Ironically, it's those who seek out discomfort that are able to make a difference and find their footing.

Sooner or later, each of us becomes (for a while) the kind of person who believes in the reptile people that control the earth. We're seeking our own little pocket of uniqueness.

average can mean mediocre. Not worth seeking out. Boring. Life's too short to fight the forces of change. Life's too short to hate what you do all day. Life's way too short to make mediocre stuff. And almost everything that's standard is now viewed as mediocre.

Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest; it never ceases.

Seeking happiness is not the problem. The problem is that we often do not know where and how to find genuine happiness and so make the mistakes that cause suffering for ourselves & others.

When our focus is on seeking, perfecting, or clinging to romance, the charge is often generated by instability, rather than by an authentic connection with another person.

Whosoever comes to me, through whatsoever form, I reach him; all men are struggling through paths which in the end lead to me.

How does the wind not cease to blow? How does the mind take no repose? Why do the waters, seeking to reach the truth, Never at any time cease to flow? —Atharva Veda, X.7.37

When the sky is dark and you are struggling to see, hear Christ ask you, "Who are you looking for?" Respond with joy, "For You, Lord. I am looking for You!

F . . . fall on your face before Him. E . . . earnestly seek Him. A . . . ask Him to give you His peace. R . . . rest in His presence.

He wanted what he didn't know and he didn't know how to get what he wanted.' (Acheron)

Vengeance only destroys the one who seeks it. (Theo- Geary's Grandfather/Acheron)

Everyone in the life before was cranky, I think, because they just wanted to know. --After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned

maybe the meaning of life lies in looking for it

God has willed that we should seek and find God's living Word in the testimony of other Christians, in the mouths of human beings.

We push time from us, and we wish him back; * * * * * * Life we think long and short; death seek and shun.

All pleasure is a vice, for seeking pleasure is what everybody does in life, and the only dark vice is doing what everybody does.

Immortal life is something to be earned, By slow self-conquest, comradeship with Pain, And patient seeking after higher truths.

The mind is afraid of its own dissolution. Life always seeks life.

The word 'question' is derived from the Latin quaerere 'to seek,' which is the same root as the word for quest. A creative life is a continued quest, and good questions are useful guides.

The search for something can prove as interesting as finding it.

There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks.