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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Ye shall be those whose eyes ever seek for an enemy - for YOUR enemy. And with some of you there is hatred at first sight.
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Seek more opportunities to put more love in the world.
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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 not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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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.
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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.
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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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Know then that the body is merely a garment. Go seek the wearer, not the cloak.
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Curiosity draws a man from consideration of the effect, to seek the cause.
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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.
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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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I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
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The surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
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Seek the truth. Tell the truth. Live in truth.
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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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Never seek illicit wealth.
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Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places.
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Those only obtain love, for the most part, who seek it not.
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Even from the first it is meek to seek the impossible.
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Seek not happiness too greedily and be not fearful of happiness.
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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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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.
