Quotes About Quest

2001: A Space Odyssey is not about a goal, but about a quest, a need.

Eliza Hamilton was committed to one holy quest above all others: to rescue her husband's historical reputation from the gross slanders that had tarnished it.

The Initial Mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place? —LOUISE BOGAN, Journey Around My Room

Reacher remembered a line from an old song: Set the controls for the heart of the sun.

quixotically.

We all dream of finding but what's wrong with looking?

Above all, knowledge of the indefinitely large variety of notions of right and wrong is so far from being incompatible with the idea of natural right that is the essential condition for the emergence of that idea: realization of the variety of notions of right is the incentive for the quest for natural right.

I've had many more thousands of books in my possession than my shelves at home would indicate. At one time, I tried to keep them all, but that quest soon became impossible; I now only keep the ones I'm sure I'm going to reread, the ones I'm definitely going to read before I die, and the ones I can't bear to part with because of an aesthetic or emotional attachment.

They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; They threatened its life with a railway-share; They charmed it with smiles and soap.

Just the place for a Snark! I have said it twice: That alone should encourage the crew. Just the place for a Snark! I have said it thrice: What I tell you three times is true.

What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.

Simply being with other people who are also seekers and who are involved in the same quest you are is very meaningful.

Always remember, joy is not incidental to spiritual quest. It is vital.

When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.

Built into human makeup is a longing for a 'more' that the world of everyday experience cannot requite.

Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence.

The process of gathering spiritual light is the quest of a lifetime.

The worst danger of the mystic is as always a quest of spiritual privilege leading to aloofness from the common lot.

Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty.

It is the pain of ignorance which makes one into a seeker.

For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands.

A person desperately searching for love," Merlin said, "reminds me of a fish desperately searching for water.

Purify your life by keeping the commandments. This will help you qualify for the Spirit, who will assist you in your quest.

I ended up spending years on a spiritual quest - diving into the world's great spiritual traditions.