Seeking Quotes
Humans are, by nature, pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns whether they exist or not.
The English Patient' is about the coming together of a French-Canadian nurse, an English patient, a Sikh in a turban and me, Caravaggio, and each of us is seeking a resolution to our own problems.
The fool is his own enemy. Seeking wealth, he destroys himself. Seek rather the other shore.
It must be shown that self-seeking is out of fashion, and that the world is moving on to a larger conception of living.
Seldom can the heart be lonely, If it seek a lonelier still; Self-forgetting, seeking only Emptier cups of love to fill.
The amount of time we spend with Jesus - meditating on His Word and His majesty, seeking His face - establishes our fruitfulness in the kingdom.
I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God.
There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
We are all meaning-seeking, meaning creating creatures and when we experience the loss of meaning, we suffer.
God is enough. That is the root of peace. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it.
No matter how much light I carry within me, there will always be times of feeling lost, being confused, seeking direction. It is the way of the human heart.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
Immigrants used to come to America seeking freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom from government. Now they come looking for free health care, free education, and a free lunch.
I’ve long advised that bloggers seeking to make money from blogging spread their interests across multiple revenue streams so as not to put all their eggs in one basket.
He who, seeking his own happiness, punishes or kills beings who also long for happiness, will not find happiness after his death.
Portals of divinity are everywhere. I believe that children may enter these divine portals easier, because they are seeking for answers in the purest way.
I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
The truth about who we really are, beyond all appearances, is knowledge worth seeking.
We have not long to live in any event. Let us spend what is left in seeking the unpeopled world behind the sunrise.
Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him.
Eventually we grow weary of seeking treasures outside ourselves and we begin to look within. There we discover that the gold we sought, we already are.
People don't like the idea of thinking long term. Many are desperately seeking short term answers because they have money problems to be solved today.
The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.
The most common mistake Christians make in worship today is seeking an experience rather than seeking God
I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many different ways they might be arranged.
I did not find you outside, O Lord, because I made the mistake of seeking outside you who were within
Do not direct all your energies towards seeking pleasure but rather towards a sublime ideal. Your energies will then serve you and contribute to the realisation of your goal or ideal.
I have just dropped into the very place I have been seeking, but in everything it exceeds all my dreams.
People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
For too long, too many people dependent on Social Security have been cruelly frightened by individuals seeking political gain through demagoguery and outright falsehood, and this must stop.
I think that you can absolutely enjoy your artistic passion without seeking for the cult of celebrity.
Discard every self-seeking motive as soon as it is seen, and you need not search for truth; truth will find you.
What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
Don't Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness
For every person seeking greatness, there are hundreds more charged with safeguarding mediocrity. If you want to be wealthy, stop taking financial advice from broke people.
People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.
...One individual is his or her own best teacher, and no other idol or false image should be worshiped or adored because the God we are all seeking lies inside oneself, not outside.
A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.
We believe deep down that we've lost something precious and are seeking it outside ourselves, never realizing that we are carrying it within us wherever we go.
The Divine Plan is one of Freedom. The inherent nature of man is ever seeking to express itself in terms of freedom, because freedom is the birthright of every living soul.
