Quotes About Seeking

The source of joy is within yourself. Unless and until you seek yourself you cannot seek God.

Learn to love the questions themselves.

God loves us and seeks our redemption, at times through angels.

There is only one immediate question: Where is God? The immediate answer is: God is where My heart's love-breath is.

There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation--purity's black backside! That loves honesty with a horrid love; or why have I always gone seeking it at the liar's door?

Through windows, in wishing wells, whispering in the wind...that's where I find you.

Won't I be seeking some status of superiority?

The Unknown surrounds us at any given moment. That is where we seek knowledge.

If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread, If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul. If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek." – Rumi (12th century Sufi poet)

There's no reason to believe that thoughts match reality. As you move through life, thoughts appear like shots in the dark. They are no more than vague attempts to figure out what's going on around and inside you. When you're seeking love and approval, many thoughts are aimed at deciphering the behavior of the people you care about, or theorizing about what's going on in their minds.

Seeking comfort, you give yourself discomfort.

Readers have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one by one.

In these dark rooms I pass such listless days, I wander up and down looking for the windows - when a window opens there will be some relief. But there are no windows, or at least I cannot find them. And perhaps it's just as well. Perhaps the light would prove another torment. Who knows what new things it would reveal? (The Windows)

Forgiveness," Father Silvio repeated calmly. "It's what we all seek, most of us without even knowing it. Forgiveness for our sins, for our failures, for our shortcomings and mistakes. Forgiveness for things we have done … and for things we didn't do.

Am I going to spend the rest of my life trying to get some kind of approval from him that he's never going to give?

The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.

Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.

The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.

People flock in, nevertheless, in search of answers to those questions only librarians are considered to be able to answer, such as "Is this the laundry?" "How do you spell surreptitious?" and, on a regular basis, "Do you have a book I remember reading once? It had a red cover and it turned out they were twins.

When one hungers for light it is only because one's knowledge of the dark is so deep.

Can there be joy and laughter when always the world is ablaze? Enshrouded in darkness, should you not seek light?

The energy-draining, time-wasting, silo-creating effect of this justification seeking is one of the most debilitating of organizational problems.

Consider the Divine Life as the most important thing to obtain.

How many people does each of us know who claim to seek happiness but freely choose paths inevitably leading to misery?