Striving Towards Quotes
16 quotes by 12 authors
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What is important is not victory or the position of a victor, but rather the labor of striving towards God and devotion to Him.
— John of Shanghai and San Francisco
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The power of God is effective when a person asks for the help from God, acknowledging his own weakness and sinfulness. This is why humility…
— John of Shanghai and San Francisco
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In the land of the lotus-eaters there is no action. Action arises only from need, from dissatisfaction. It is purposeful striving towards something. Its ultimate…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Life is teleology par excellence; it is the intrinsic striving towards a goal, and the living organism is a system of directed aims which seek…
— Carl Jung
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There is a true feminist movement in Buddhism that relates to the goddess TÄrÄ. Following her cultivation of bodhicitta, the bodhisattva's motivation, she looked upon…
— Dalai Lama
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Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to…
— Albert Ellis
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Besides the pleasure derived from acquired knowledge, there lurks in the mind of man, and tinged with a shade of sadness, an unsatisfactory longing for…
— Wilhelm von Humboldt
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They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly…
— Stephen Fry
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When someone is seeking,†said Siddartha, “It happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to…
— Hermann Hesse
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But in order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us…
— Albert Camus
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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps…
— Hermann Hesse
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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire…
— Albert Ellis
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Man's striving for order, of which art is but one manifestation, derives from a similar universal tendency throughout the organic world; it is also paralleled…
— Rudolf Arnheim
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Love is not something that passes away or is just for fun. Yes, fun is a part of it but love is something deeper and…
— Kemis Khan
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We have to distinguish two classes of instincts, one of which, the sexual instincts or Eros, is by far the more conspicuous and accessible to…
— Sigmund Freud
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In striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose.
— Hermann Hesse
Who Wrote These Striving Towards Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 16 Striving Towards Quotes as follows: