Seek Quotes
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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?
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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.
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Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places.
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Leave that which is not, but appears to be. Seek that which is, but is not apparent.
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Seek more opportunities to put more love in the world.
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If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the Granth Sahib or the Koran?
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Seek not happiness too greedily and be not fearful of happiness.
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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.
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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.
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The surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
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To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.
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Be the change you seek.
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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.
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The secret of every discord in Christian homes and communities and churches is that we seek our own way and our own glory.
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We seek no wider war.
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To show your true ability is always, in a sense, to surpass the limits of your ability, to go a little beyond them: to dare, to seek, to invent; it is at such a moment that new talents are revealed, discovered, and realized.
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Fairness is a concept that holds only in limited situations. Yet we want the concept to extend to everything, in and out of phase. From snails to hardware stores to married life. Maybe no one finds it, or even misses it, but fairness is like love. What is given has nothing to do with what we seek.
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There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.
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What escapes us tears us from ourselves and ruins us. I seek what cannot be sought. I am a miscarried void, the hollowest quest.
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Only he who does not seek to be ahead of others is capable of living in harmony with everyone.
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I didn't have to go all the way to India for spiritual enlightenment. The blue-collar spirituality of everyday life was right in front of me, it was in every nook and cranny if I wanted to seek it, but I had chosen to ignore it.
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In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.
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Seek the truth. Tell the truth. Live in truth.
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For it is said, you know, that a letter will always seek a reader; that sooner or later, like it or not, words have a way of finding the light, of making their secrets known.