Seeking Quotes
1388 Seeking quotes by 1025 unique authors
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God,' she cried, 'what is love? Man seeking his own head? The human head, so rented by misery that even the teeth weigh! She couldn't…
— Djuna Barnes
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There are symbolic dreams-- dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities -- realities that symbolize a dream. Symbols are what you might…
— Haruki Murakami
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A man of humanity is one who, in seeking to establish himself, finds a foothold for others and who, in desiring attaining himself, helps others…
— Confucius
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Walk with those seeking truth... RUN FROM THOSE WHO THINK THEY'VE FOUND IT.
— Deepak Chopra
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People are more open about seeking help these days. They recognise the fact that the alternative to having a shrink is that you bore your…
— Hugh Laurie
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There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and…
— Daniel Handler
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I've been working hard on [Ulysses] all day," said Joyce. Does that mean that you have written a great deal?" I said. Two sentences," said…
— James Joyce
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What you seek is seeking you.
— Unknown Author
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Far from seeking to justify, as does the Church, the necessity of torments and afflictions, he cried, in his outraged pity: 'If a God has…
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
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Suppose God wants to teach you to say, "I know how to be abased"--are you ready to be offered up like that? Are you ready…
— Oswald Chambers
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I don’t think people are really seeking the meaning of Life. I think we’re seeking an experience of being alive…we want to feel the rapture…
— Joseph Campbell
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Don't you think I have sense enough to worry about my motives for saying the prayer? That's exactly what's bothering me so. Just because I'm…
— J D Salinger
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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
— Audre Lorde
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We humans have always sought to increase our personal energy in the only manner we have known, by seeking to psychologically steal it from the…
— James Redfield
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When we set out on the path, we always have a fairly clear idea of what we hope to find. Women are generally seeking their…
— Paulo Coelho
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The reason why I do not know anything about myself, the reason why Siddhartha has remained alien and unknown to myself is due to one…
— Hermann Hesse
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Don't Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness
— Eckhart Tolle
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States' rights, as our forefathers conceived it, was a protection of the right of the individual citizen. Those who preach most frequently about states' rights…
— Robert Kennedy
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Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth.
— Michael Crichton
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As all advocates of feminist politics know most people do not understand sexism or if they do they think it is not a problem. Masses…
— Bell Hooks
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I certainly wasn't seeking any degree, the way a college confers a status symbol upon its students. My homemade education gave me, with every additional…
— Alex Haley
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It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows…
— Loren Eiseley
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but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I wonder if childhood is ever really happy. Just as well, perhaps. To be blissfully happy so young would leave one always seeking to recapture…
— P.D. James
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When a man sleeps, he is steeped and lost in a limp toneless happiness: awake he is restless, tortured by his body and the illusion…
— Flann O'Brien
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