Seeking Quotes
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A nation usually renews its youth on a political sick-bed, and there finds again the spirit which it had gradually lost in seeking and maintaining power.
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“I say to myself, go on seeking, be glad for being sensitive, be glad you're able to go beyond the resistance inside you. It is our resistance to what we experience that makes creativity possible. So don't get rid of resistance like that by going around it or trying to eliminate it. Our own limitations put up strong resistance, but it's because of that that we are creators”
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The thing we tell of can never be found be seeking, yet only seekers find it.
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It is a vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us, for the sake of finding a greater blessing, instead of seeking it where alone it is to be found - in loving obedience.
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I'd overlooked the obvious because my focus had always been elsewhere! All along, this that I had been seeking was already here.
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She stares back into me, as if we are both seeking a humanity that neither of us has.
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While seeking out the dead, I see nothing but the living.
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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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To sue to live, I find I seek to die; And, seeking death, find life: let it come on.
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Memoir is a difficult literary form to pull off when dealing with discrete and poignant moments in a life, even harder when seeking to narrate over 80 years of existence.
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Seeking the kingdom of God leads to joy and happiness.
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I'm still at the age where I'm constantly seeking approval of people I have respect for.
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Situations in life often permit no delay; and when we cannot determine the course which is certainly best, we must follow the one which is probably the best. This frame of mind freed me also from the repentance and remorse commonly felt by those vacillating individuals who are always seeking as worthwhile things which they later judge to be bad.
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Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.
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When someone is seeking, it happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the thing he is seeking, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. 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 indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose.
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You are that which you are seeking.
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It's our mortality that terrifies us, because what we're really seeking is immortality - that is, after all, a fool's errand.
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Do not fear the aging of the body for it is the body's way of seeking the root.
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This "human thing" is the permanent process of seeking the sacred through revealing what is hidden. It is an ever ongoing and indefinite process of understanding and interpretation.
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There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.
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There is no place in which to hide when Age comes seeking for his bride.
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God is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ.
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I'm the expert when it comes to my paintings. I think all great painters have to have that confidence in what they are seeking and when they're getting there.
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Seeking perfection just ends up creating ridiculous amounts of stress and disappointment.
