Quotes About Pursuit

Is that what you would do?" He stared at me and I waited, wondering why his answer mattered so much. "I wouldn't have waited this long for you. I would have already showed up at your dorm the minute you decided I wanted you. I wouldn't leave until I convinced you that you were mine.

Who seeks shall find.

We are not asking for something spectacular but rather for our sisters to find real self-fulfillment through wise self-development in the pursuit of righteous and worthy endeavors.

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.

We desire to possess a beauty that is worth pursuing, worth fighting for, a beauty that is core to who we truly are. We want beauty that can be seen; beauty that can be felt; beauty that affects others; a beauty all our own to unveil.

Do I dare ask him for what I want, As if I knew it, Could find it on some page In some chapter In some book?

No one anticipated that this crazy push for speed—speed of the technology itself, and speed to discovery—would also be the root of personal disasters, of uncontrollable compulsivity, of endless pursuit culminating in an ultimate depression and despair.

Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.—Lamentations

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead.

What is science but the pursuit of the truth? What is Buddhism but 2500 years of observation as to the nature of mind?

But those who are ready to toil in the most excellent pursuits, will not desist from the search after truth, till they get the demonstration from the Scriptures themselves.

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.

Chase after the truth like all hell.

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear.

The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it. The evil is only that men will not seek it.

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.

If I were asked to define the Hindu creed, I should simply say: search after Truth through non-violent means. Hinduism is a relentless pursuit after truth.

There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

It is not man who pursues truth, but truth man.

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man

In very truth it is the unattained which gives zest to the commonplace and brims the cup of our daily life with keenest joy.