Seeks Quotes
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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.
Hermann Hesse
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Married love burns as fire, and seeks nothing more than the mate. It says, "I want only you"
Martin Luther
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A teacher who is only interested in great talents is like a man who only seeks the company of rich people.
Carl Flesch
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All the shrewdness of 'man' seeks one thing: to be able to live without responsibility.
Soren Kierkegaard
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I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest.
Dante Alighieri
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Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed. The savage deems it noble;but the religion of Christ, which is the sublime civilizer, emphatically condemns it. Why? Because religion ever seeks to ennoble man; and nothing so debases him as revenge.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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I don’t want to be anything special. I only want to try to be true to that in me which seeks to fulfill its promise.
Etty Hillesum
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God has set the type of marriage through creation. Each creature seeks its perfection in another.
Martin Luther
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The rose is wont with pride to swell, and ever seeks to rise.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The disciplined Christian will be very careful what sort of counsel he seeks from others. Counsel that contradicts the written Word is ungodly counsel. Blessed is the man that walketh not in that.
Elisabeth Elliot