Seeks Quotes
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No journey is too great, when one finds what one seeks.
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We are not sent into this world mainly to enjoy the loveliness therein, nor to sit us down in passive ease; no, we were sent here for action. The soul that seeks to do the will of God with a pure heart, fervently, does not yield to the lethargy of ease.
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He who seeks, finds, and who knocks, will be let in.
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Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks -- those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest.
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A labyrinthine man never seeks the truth, but only his Ariadne.
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If one seeks relief from unbearable pressure, one is to eat hashish.
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The sin of fallen man is this: Man seeks the benefits of God while at the same time fleeing from God Himself.
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He who seeks intelligence lacks intelligence.
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The one seeks a midwife to deliver his thoughts, the other, someone to assist: thus a good conversation comes into being.
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He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves - in Man... For no man seeks to hear his own echo, or to find his reflection in the glass.
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When a draco has eaten much fruit, it seeks the juice of the bitter lettuce; it has been seen to do this.
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Truth seeks light, lies seek shadows.
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'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd.
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What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion.
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Consider that the devil doesn’t sleep, but seeks our ruin in a thousand ways.
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What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.
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He who seeks to terrify others is more in fear himself.
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To doubt is a misfortune, but to seek when in doubt is an indispensable duty. So he who doubts and seeks not is at once unfortunate and unfair.
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We can sometimes find a person again, but we cannot abolish time. And so on until the unforeseen day, gloomy as a winter night, when one no longer seeks that girl, or any other, when to find her would actually scare one. For one no longer feels that one has attractions enough to please, or strength enough to love. Not, of course, that one is in the strict sense of the word impotent. And as for loving, one would love more than ever. But one feels that it is too big an undertaking for the little strength one has left.
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When someone seeks," said Siddhartha, "then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.
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[nonviolence] seeks to secure moral ends through moral means.
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A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.
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Passing from one dimension to another, he feels that nothing is left behind, but rather is always with him in the moment. His life is no more a myth than other man's, his needs much the same. The only price he pays for this exquisite singularity may be the intrusion of his fellow dreamers who sometimes call him on the telephone. They mean no harm. They too are innocent. Clarity is all any man seeks, this Somnambulist merely find his on the other Side.
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What man really seeks is not perfection which is in the future, but fulfillment which is ever in the present.
