Seek Quotes
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The inspiration you seek is already within you. Be silent and listen.
Rumi
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Know then that the body is merely a garment. Go seek the wearer, not the cloak.
Rumi
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I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
Claude Monet
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
Tacitus
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If you are seeking, seek us with joy For we live in the kingdom of joy. Do not give your heart to anything else But to the love of those who are clear joy, Do not stray into the neighborhood of despair. For there are hopes: they are real, they exist – Do not go in the direction of darkness – I tell you: suns exist.
Rumi
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Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames
Rumi
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It is the sorrowful penitent who is acceptable; that is the kind of woman these texts seek. One can’t help but think that the men who relish this recollection of Mary the penitent sinner are those who are trying to inform their own world with their own vision of what sexual and gendered relationships ought to be, with women not enticing men with the dangers of sex but falling at their feet in humble submission and penitence.
Bart Ehrman
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Curiosity draws a man from consideration of the effect, to seek the cause.
Thomas Hobbes
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I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Never seek illicit wealth.
Confucius
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Leave that which is not, but appears to be. Seek that which is, but is not apparent.
Rumi
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Seek first God's Kingdom, that is, become like the lilies and the birds, become perfectly silent - then shall the rest be added unto you.
Soren Kierkegaard
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If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread. If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul. If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek.
Rumi
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Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places.
Flann O'Brien
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Why did the ancients praise the Way? Did they not say it was because you find what you seek and are saved from your wrongdoings?
Lao Tzu
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The surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The river has taught me to listen; you will learn from it, too. The river knows everything; one can learn everything from it. You have already learned from the river that it is good to strive downwards, to sink, to seek the depths.
Hermann Hesse
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The philosophers talk to you about the dignity of man, and they tempt you to pride, or they talk to you about the misery of man, and they tempt you to despair.
Blaise Pascal
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Even from the first it is meek to seek the impossible.
Sophocles
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Only he who does not seek to be ahead of others is capable of living in harmony with everyone.
Lao Tzu
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If I wanted to become a tramp, I would seek information and advice from the most successful tramp I could find. If I wanted to become a failure, I would seek advice from people who have never succeeded. If I wanted to succeed in all things, I would look around me for those who are succeeding, and do as they have done.
Norman Vincent Peale
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I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the corners.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Seek not happiness too greedily and be not fearful of happiness.
Lao Tzu