Seeking Quotes
1388 Seeking quotes by 1025 unique authors
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There is little to be gained by seeking after the mysteries, for there is hardly time in a lifetime to master the plain and precious…
— Boyd K. Packer
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We should not be post-racial: seeking to get beyond the uplifting meanings and edifying registers of blackness. Rather, we should be post-racist: moving beyond cultural…
— Michael Eric Dyson
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Loving humanity means as much, and as little, as loving raindrops, or loving the Milky Way. You say that you love humanity? Are you sure…
— Julian Barnes
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A genuine relationship is one that is not dominated by the ego with its image-making and self-seeking. In a genuine relationship, there is an outward…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Accepting the reality of our broken, flawed lives is the beginning of spirituality not because the spiritual life will remove our flaws but because we…
— Mike Yaconelli
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In my view, the pro-life movement at this point should focus on seeking to reduce the number of abortions. At times it will require political…
— Dinesh D'Souza
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If you do the task before you always adhering to strict reason with zeal and energy and yet with humanity, disregarding all lesser ends and…
— Marcus Aurelius
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We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another, and no sunrise finds us where left by sunset. Even…
— Khalil Gibran
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But especially he loved to run in the dim twilight of the summer midnights, listening to the subdued and sleepy murmurs of the forest, reading…
— Jack London
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While seeking out the dead, I see nothing but the living.
— Honore de Balzac
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I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.
— Vincent Van Gogh
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A child her wayward pencil drew On margins of her book; Garlands of flower, dancing elves, Bud, butterfly, and brook, Lessons undone, and plum forgot,…
— Louisa May Alcott
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When seeking guidance, don't ever listen to the tiny-hearted. Be kind to them, heap them with blessing, cajole them, but do not follow their advice.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
— Langston Hughes
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Oh blind, oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity whcih spurs as so in the short mortal life and steeps as through all eternity.
— Dante Alighieri
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There they lay, but not in the forgetfulness of the previous night. She was seeking and he was seeking, they raged and contorted their faces…
— Franz Kafka
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I believe, to be sure, that any man who reaches Heaven will find that what he abandoned (even in plucking out his right eye) has…
— C.S. Lewis
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He was powerless because he had no precise desire, and this tortured him because he was vainly seeking something to desire. He could not even…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Some folks hide, and some folks seek, and seeking, when it's mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous can be a form of hiding.
— Tom Robbins
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To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and…
— Walter M. Miller, Jr.
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Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai…
— Ernest Hemingway
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Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
— Aristotle
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My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life.
— Carl Jung
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I love you," I whisper. "And I love you." He smiles, his lips seeking mine. "Always have. Always will.
— Alyson Noel
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The king lifted a hand to her cheek and kissed her. It was not a kiss between strangers, not even a kiss between a bride…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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