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Quotes About Seeking

No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown friends will come and seek you.
~ C.G. Jung
I was amazed when I looked into her eyes – the eyes of a hunted, a cornered animal – seeking, seeking, always in the hope of something. . . She is possessed . . .And why is she possessed? Because she does not live the life that makes sense. Hers is a life utterly, grotesquely banal. . .with no point in it at all. If she dies today, nothing has happened, nothing has vanished – because she was nothing!
~ C.G. Jung
But somewhere and at some time there must have been people who sought the truth as I was doing
~ C.G. Jung
The loneliness pervading me was physical, like a voyager who has grown weary after years of wandering and now seeks the road home.
~ C.W. Gortner
I've read everything, man, I've tried macrobiotics psychoanalysis drugs acupuncture suicide yoga dance swimming jogging astrology roller-skating Marxism Candomblé gay clubs ecology, all that's left is this knot in my chest, so now what do I do?
~ Caio Abreu
After eating the world's bread, we wake each morning to remember: We are still hungry. Seek a better loaf. Eat, and never die. Taste, savor, and be filled forever.
~ Calvin Miller
An old alchemist gave the following consolation to one of his disciples: "No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown friends will come and seek you.
~ Carl Jung
When the mouth cries, I want to see God, the heart has reached its finest moment. Once we have sought and seen God, all other things have a way of finding us.
~ Gayle D. Erwin
We will come to know the Lord, to walk with Him, by learning to fellowship with Him in the worst and busiest of days. You and I will find Him in the crush of life, not in sequestration.
~ Gene Edwards
I also see bodhisattvas Who leave behind all play and laughter And all foolish companions, And seek association with the wise. Single-mindedly removing distractions, Concentrating their thoughts while in mountain forests, For tens of thousands of millions of years, They seek the Buddha way.
~ Gene Reeves
I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.
~ Gene Robinson
Unknowe, unkist, and lost, that is unsought.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
The Lord, in His kindness, seeing the attitude of His children, and knowing that they would need guidance, gave to us the Ten Commandments, and other commandments that have been given from time to time, to help us to find happiness. You observe people running to and fro in the world, seeking happiness but not finding it. If they would only pause long enough to accept the Lord's advice happiness would follow, but they will find it in no other way.
~ George Albert Smith
Most churchless people aren't looking for a church. They're seeking an encounter with God. And even if they're not seeking him directly, the vast majority are seeking to experience the essence of who he is: love.
~ George Barna
The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The reason why we have never found measure of wealth. We never sought it.
~ George Clason
The Fatherhood of God belongs to those who have responded to the divine seeking love and have submitted themselves to God's Kingdom. God seeks people, not because he is their Father, but because he would become their Father.
~ George Eldon Ladd
How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
~ Immanuel Kant
Quem não sabe o que procura, quando acha não encontra.
~ Immanuel Kant
When men's fowls and dogs are lost, they know to seek for them again, but they lose their mind and do not know to seek for it.
~ Inazo Nitobe
There's more than one answer to these questions Pointing me in crooked line The less I seek my source for some definitive The closer I am to fine.
~ Indigo Girls
I need daylight. But I wander in the dark.
~ Iris Murdoch
He had to go there because of Patrick; and because it was fated. Yes, that gave him courage, to feel that he had not sought it, it had come upon him, and however fruitless or disastrous that journey might be, he had to undertake it, because it was his fate.
~ Iris Murdoch
Do you call yourself an artist?" "Yes." "How absurd. You never sold a picture in your life." "Is that what being an artist means—selling? I thought it meant one who was always seeking without absolutely finding. I thought it means the contrary from 'I know it, I have found it.' When I say I am an artist, I only mean
~ Irving Stone