Quotes About Quest

People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance.

If you become so intensely curious that without knowing you cannot live, that is called seeking.

Everyone seems to be searching and yearning for answers whatever they may be. And that ends up being some kind of spiritual or religious belief.

The act of seeking is essential to life.

You have to find it. No one else can find it for you.

Of all the communities available to us, there is not one I would want to devote myself to except for the society of the true seekers, which has very few living members at any one time.

The starting point is a question.

Truth is Truth; and the Truth of yesterday is the Truth of to-day, and the Truth of to-day is the Truth of to- morrow. Our quest, then, is to find Truth, and to cut the kernel from the husk, the text from the comment.

Make your life a magical journey of Life, encountering Life.

They are savage for knowledge, for beauty and truth. They crawl on their knees to find it.

Douglas E. Richards

It was a tale as old as time. Boy meets girl. Boy purchases girl to protect him. Boy and girl fall in love. Boy prays that girl won't let him die horribly as he puts his UFO-questing nose where various parties don't want it to be.

Sometimes I think of myself as Frodo in the Lord of The Rings. In my case the ring's power is that of almost inconceivable creativity and intellect.

Darkness entered into, darkness realized, is the point of departure for all profound expressions of Christian hope. 'Meaningless darkness' becomes 'revelatory darkness' when it is confronted by the courage of a thoughtfulness and hope that is born of faith's quest for truth.

No Calvinist in New England could have been more rigorous in self-discipline than he was, but the supremely significant fact about his lifelong quest of knowledge is that he found in it "infinite delight." He always loved to study for by this means he expanded the horizons of his mind and gained the power of knowledge, which was the only power he really craved.

Everyone has the same life purpose, which is the quest of happiness for oneself and for others.

Each minute of life should be a divine quest.

Excellence is the eternal quest. We achieve it by living up to our highest intellectual standards and our finest moral intuitions. In seeking excellence, take life seriously-but never yourself!

Who we are looking for is who is looking.

You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for.

I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective.

Unto a life which I call natural I would gladly follow even a will-o'-the-wisp through bogs and sloughs unimaginable, but no moonnor firefly has shown me the causeway to it.

Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?

I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.