Quotes About Quest

I guess, in a very real sense, I'm a Gnostic. I had been looking all my life for some great mystery... I think somewhere deep in my mind is the notion that if I could learn just the right thing, I would be saved.

The 'Jonny Quest' theme had a huge influence on me while I was growing up.

The Dark Tower: Gunslinger Born; The Dark Tower: The Long Road Home; The Dark Tower: Treachery; The Dark Tower: The Sorcerer (one-shot comic, not collected); The Dark Tower: Fall of Gilead; The Dark Tower: The Battle of Jericho Hill and The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger – The Journey Begins.

the Greeks mounted a mighty expedition to bring her back.

Sounds as if the intruder was looking for something, Norma.

I recited and followed this song-of-the-places-in-between as a map.

Children abandoned by the universe—and that was how it felt to those whose mothers went away or died young—always spent their lives seeking perfect, intense union. Anything less felt like a failure. Stevie thought about all the pain that quest had caused herself and others.

Even if we never find it,' he said to Emily as they lingered in the New Moon garden under the violet sky of a long, wonderous northern twilight, on the last evening before he went away, 'there's something in the search for it that better than even the finding would be.

inevitably someone will ask me about the word mindfulness with a tone of caution, suggesting that this is a Buddhist concept. It is true that Buddhists have long been faithful to the practice of mindfulness, but striving to live mindfully is a universal quest and belongs to us all. Living mindfully is the art of living awake and ready to embrace the gift of the present moment.

I find,' he says, his voice still muffled, 'that I am constantly wondering where he is. Where he has gone. It is like a wheel ceaselessly turning at the back of my mind. Whatever I am doing, wherever I am, I am thinking: Where is he, where is he? He can't have just vanished. He must be somewhere. All I have to do is find him. I look for him everywhere, in every street, in every crowd, in every audience. That's what I am doing, when I look out at them all: I try to find him, or a version of him.

Whole life is a search for beauty. But, when the beauty is found inside, the search ends and a beautiful journey begins.

Never sit back and wait for a opportunity to find you, get up and search for one, it exists find it!

If you want to be prosperous, then you will have to become a seeker

You must burn with the desire to seek new things and investigate information

If you are constantly seeking then sooner or later, you will meet 'your opportunity

The first purpose of your life is to find the purpose of your life.

If happiness is the absence of fever then I will never know happiness. For I am posessed by a fever for knowledge, experience and creation.

The most haunting woman is the one we cannot find in the crowded café when we are looking for her, the one that we must hunt for, and seek out through the disguises of her stories.

he looked through her belongings in the hope of coming across some information

Reality is simply the loss of the ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself. This is the direct method, whereas all other methods are done, only retaining the ego. . . . No sadhanas [spiritual practices] are necessary for engaging in this quest.

A knight must throw down his gauntlet to the Devil and fight for right against the servants of sin. Whether you win or lose matters not, only whether you follow the quest. Remember that virtue always prevails.

How hard can it be to find a girl and an elephant for Christ's sake?

I told you, everyone understands a quest.

So it just wasn't in my house. Anywhere, I looked like I knew about the toilet.