Seeking Quotes

Ultimately, we are seeking a better understanding of what is means to be human. In this quest, progress is not made by finding the "right" answers, but by asking meaningful questions.

Light seeking light doth light of light beguile: So, ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes.

To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.

All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest.

Why ... did so many people spend their lives not trying to find answers to questions -- not even thinking of questions to begin with? Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?

Seeking fortunes in America led to Germany losing people, and the American continent received many people whose contributions are particularly clear in the agricultural and technical fields.

I'm seeking out a new way to live and if it's surfing, that's the way I'll do it. I'll be a surfer for the rest of my life.

An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.

You cannot avoid paradise. You can only avoid seeking it.

My dad is a bank president and my mom was an accountant and they didn't think that seeking the life of a freelance writer was very practical, you see. Of course, I was just as determined to do it.

Power seeking to manifest causes desire within you.

But I'm not worried about seeking out the approval of others - that high school thing of joining the club.

Live more quietly. Live more seeking God's presence in your own heart.

Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.

A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear materials is the former Soviet Union.

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

Spiritual lust causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Himself who gives the answer.

Seeking is a necessary preliminary to finding, and one who cannot endure the hardship of inquiry cannot expect to harvest the fruit of knowledge.

The average individual spends many, many lifetimes meditating and seeking and chewing bubblegum and doing things like that to attain the experience of samadhi.

We will be better and braver if we engage and inquire than if we indulge in the idle fancy that we already know -- or that it is of no use seeking to know what we do not know.

If you're conscientiously seeking approval, you're not being true to yourself.

Whatever you're seeking-it's seeking You

I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him.

What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.

What is creative is the seeking of perfection - and not attaining it.

Sin creates the illusion of freedom. In the end it fools us into seeking freedom from God rather than finding freedom in God.

We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.

Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it.

People believe in God because we are pattern-seeking, storytelling, mythmaking, religious, moral animals.

Let your mind and soul be at ease. Don't grasp and grab for the magic and miracles. When you reside in that place of stillness, the joy, miracles, and magic you're seeking will find you.

I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.

The neocons are supporting Hillary [Clinton] just like the neoliberals are. She's seeking the endorsement of Henry Kissinger as well.

On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled, seeking safety over the Indian border.

The truth is that you already are what you are seeking. You are looking for God with his eyes. I suggest you ask, "What's ultimately behind this set of eyes?" Turn around to see what is looking.

The first thing to learn about the deep structure of modern design is that it is relation-seeking and pleasurably so.

It is wisdom that is seeking for wisdom.

Fervent seeking after God with the whole heart, without which no one can know Him, has always been the mark of His true followers.

Desperately seeking something is not what attracts it to us. When we dwell, in deep peace and kindness, whatever would add to our happiness just flows to our door.

Winning Strategists are certain of triumph before seeking a challenge. Losing Strategists are certain to challenge before seeking a triumph.

When I'm saying hysteria, I'm referring to Freud, because all the women were coming to him with symptoms and seeking help, and he just called it hysteria.

The simplest type of breakdown exhibits itself as an oscillation in a goal-seeking process which appears only when that process is actively invoked.

In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still find myself a self-subsisting and alas! self-seeking me.

Don't be so obsessed with stardom that you miss out on success

If I were capable of assisting someone, I would do it in a manner that would cause the person seeking assistance to work, so he assists himself.

They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future.

Spirit, find your way, in seeking lowness like a stream.

Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing.

Iran has been a neighbor for millenia, and will continue to be a neighbor for millenia. We have no issue with seeking to develop the best terms we can with Iran.

One of the big tensions in my life is that I have known the stresses of financial hardship since I was a little kid, and it is the cancer for which I am seeking a cure.

Anyone in a state of seeking can never be happy. Only those who are constantly finding are fulfilled. And finding is not something that happens to us - it is something we do.