Seeking Quotes
1388 Seeking quotes by 1025 unique authors
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I'm not particularly attention-seeking.
— Annie Lennox
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When religion has said its last word, there is little that we need other than God Himself. The evil habit of seeking God-and effectively prevents…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Even if Zuma was to develop the authoritarian impulses of a Mugabe, he would be checked—not least by his own party, which set a continental…
— Mark Gevisser
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Reading is actually plunging into one's own identity and, one hopes, emerging stronger than before. You see, unconsciously, we are seeking to find an affirmation…
— Amalia Kahana-Carmon
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With reference to other religions, the Church sees a great difference between them and herself. The other religions are expressions of the human soul seeking…
— Francis Arinze
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In the case of a state that is seeking not conquest but the maintenance of its security, the aim is fulfilled if the threat is…
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and…
— Bodhidharma
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The facade is the ego. It is motivated by our seeking love. The only reward is frustration, as it is only by loving that one…
— Lester Levenson
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People are afraid to think, or they don't know how. They fail to realize that, while emotions can't be suppressed, the mind can be strengthened.…
— Eric Gutkind
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I'm something that I used to be. I'm never where I feel I am, and if I seek myself, I don't know who's seeking me.…
— Fernando Pessoa
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
— Tacitus
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Not only was Dan Cooper likely an alias, but many people suspected at the time were people living under assumed names. The '50s and '60s…
— Geoffrey Gray
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Anyone who is honestly seeking a job and can't find it, deserves the attention of the United States government, and the people.
— John F. Kennedy
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Not even for an hour can you bear to be alone, nor can you advantageously apply your leisure time, but you endeavor, a fugitive and…
— Horace
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Do not fear the aging of the body for it is the body's way of seeking the root.
— Laozi
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While guns rumbled in the distance, we sang, painted, made collages and wrote poems with all our might. We were seeking an art based on…
— Hans Arp
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The ruthlessness born of self-seeking is ineffectual compared with the ruthlessness sustained by dedication to a holy cause. God wishes, said Calvin, that one should…
— Eric Hoffer
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Instead of viewing God as one who helps me accomplish my purposes, it is now my joy to help God accomplish the divine purpose -…
— Philip Gulley
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We cannot be wise while in the grip of a deep fear. ... This is why demagogues, when seeking our support, will first cause us…
— Philip Gulley
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Why since I am myself subject to birth, ageing, disease, death, sorrows and defilement, do I seek after what is also subject to these things?…
— Gautama Buddha
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Seeking but not finding the house builder I travelled through life after life. How painful is repeated birth! House-builders, you have now been seen. You…
— Gautama Buddha
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The solitary Bee Whose buzzing was the only sound of life, Flew there on restless wing, Seeking in vain one blossom where to fix.
— Robert Southey
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The one seeking to demonstrate the power of spiritual realization in everyday affairs should believe in Divine guidance... and that everything in life is controlled…
— Ernest Holmes
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Well, we're grasping for two things at once. Partly for communion with others - that's the deepest instinct in us. And partly, we're seeking security.…
— Ingmar Bergman
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They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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