Seek Quotes
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Care not for want of place; care for thy readiness to fill one. Care not for being unknown, but seek to be worthy of note.
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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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Seek more opportunities to put more love in the world.
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Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.
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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.
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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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A trout is a moment of beauty known only to those who seek it.
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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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[Christianity] endeavors equally to establish these two things: that God has set up in the Church visible signs to make himself known to those who should seek him sincerely, and that he has nevertheless so disguised them that he will only be perceived by those who seek him with all their heart.
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Curiosity draws a man from consideration of the effect, to seek the cause.
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Know then that the body is merely a garment. Go seek the wearer, not the cloak.
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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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Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places.
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The praise we seek for our own virtues sometimes tempts us to flatter the imperfections of other men.
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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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I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.
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To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.
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The surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
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Seek not happiness too greedily and be not fearful of happiness.
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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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If we seek a positive outcome, we must begin with a positive attitude.
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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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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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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?
