S Quotes
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“Seeking divine enchantment is like seeking love in a laundry room. We’re spinning but nothing makes sense.”
“Seeking external validation brings disappointment. Validate yourself from within to find true happiness.”
Source: The Compassion Revolution: 30 Days of Living from the Heart
“Seeking for perfection is like seeking for mental health without a definition of what it is. But if psychology and psychiatry are as lost as the people they consistently evaluate, and people are as imperfect as the imperfection they see in others, then I have to conclude that it is as wise to accept judgment as it is to judge first the ones who judge us. But it is also as wise as it is foolish to do so; for it is like seeking for a definition that can’t entirely define us. Because if one answer can explain a thousand questions, a billion questions would never amount to the importance of an answer, which the simpler it is, the more questions it answers. And in that sense, I must say, we are imperfectly perfect.”
“Seeking for salvation within covers with pages of printed letters”
“Seeking fortunes in America led to Germany losing people, and the American continent received many people whose contributions are particularly clear in the agricultural and technical fields.”
“Seeking God's righteousness means searching out and doing those things that God says are right”
“Seeking God? We have totally revised corporate worship services to be sensitive to "seekers." If worship were to be tailored for seekers, it would be directed exclusively to believers, for no one except believers ever seeks God (Rom. 3:9-12).”
“Seeking happiness apart from a right relationship God is like trying to turn on a light that's unplugged.”
“Seeking happiness in material things is a sure way of being unhappy.”
“Seeking happiness is not the problem. The problem is that we often do not know where and how to find genuine happiness and so make the mistakes that cause suffering for ourselves & others.”
Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
“Seeking happiness, I passed many travelers headed in the opposite direction, seeking happiness.”
“Seeking Heaven through righteousness is not seeking righteousness, but something else;--it is not loving goodness for goodness' sake, but for its rewards.”
“Seeking higher ground is not a destination, but an elevation. Wings up, eyes shut open.”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“seeking how to accept him as
he was, under the law that he could not
speak—and when I shrieked against the law
he shrinked down into its absolute,
he rose from its departure gate.”
Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
“Seeking is a combination of emotions people usually think of as being different: wanting something really good, looking forward to getting something really good and curiosity. Seeking gives you the energy to go after your goals.”
“Seeking is a necessary preliminary to finding, and one who cannot endure the hardship of inquiry cannot expect to harvest the fruit of knowledge.”
Source: The Metalogicon: A Twelfth-century Defense of the Verbal and Logical Arts of the Trivium
“Seeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent: Seeking involves some luck; now the demand is for skill.”
Source: The Loves: The Art of Beauty, The Remedies for Love, and The Art of Love
“Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest; it never ceases.”
Source: Lovingkindness
“Seeking is not always the way to find.”
Source: Guesses at Truth
“Seeking justice in this world is such a selfish thing but giving justice reflects being a child of God.”
“Seeking knowledge is like opening doors. And I know the doors are everywhere.”
Source: The Way of the Fight
“Seeking knowledge is mandatory for every human being, as the quest for truth is the true purpose of living. We are given an entire lifetime to collect and assemble truths. Truths are acquired only when we learn to filter all information, including those valuable lessons and insights gained from our own personal experiences, through our conscience. And as we near death, the knowledge in our hearts at the end must match the knowledge which was put in our hearts in the very beginning. All else is irrelevant.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Seeking love in the mind is like seeking love from the creator of your own drama. The mind cannot give us what we are looking for.”
Source: Empty Your Cup: Why We Have Low Self-Esteem and How Mindfulness Can Help
“Seeking love keeps you from the awareness that you already have it—that you are it.”
“Seeking means admitting that you do not know. Once you have cleared your slate, truth can imprint itself upon it.”
“Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.”
Source: Siddhartha
“Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose.”
Source: Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays
“Seeking more information, I walked through the market listening to the gossip and discovered that our new general, the man sent to quell the unrest in the east, was the second son of a provincial tax collector whose only claims to recognition were that he had commanded some legions in Britain in the heady, early days of the invasion, that his brother had once stood for consul, and that he had been a governor in some African province, where the locals had thrown turnips at him.
Despairing, I returned to the house, and that despair deepened later when Horgias came home with the news that our new paragon of martial virtue had until recently been hiding in Greece, in disgrace for having fallen asleep during one of Nero’s recitals in the theatre.”
Source: Rome: The Eagle of the Twelfth
“Seeking of the truth should be not only part of the Justice Department and part of our judicial system, but also should be... a goal of reporters today.”
“Seeking out causes is a pastime of the mind. There is no duality of cause and effect. Everything is its own cause.”
“Seeking out genetic information... may allow adult adoptees, who had no choice in whether to be adopted, or by whom, to exercise their autonomy in making meaning out of it.”
Source: The Lost Family: How DNA Testing Is Uncovering Secrets, Reuniting Relatives, and Upending Who We Are
“Seeking out that which is long lost,
Searching out for music in the fields of grief,
Sensing peace, in torment and tears,
Finishing the unfinished melodies, that lingered for long,
This is how, light dawns over the astounding horizon.”
“Seeking perfection just ends up creating ridiculous amounts of stress and disappointment.”
“Seeking popularity achieves nothing other than an easy life in the short term. The effective leader will build respect, not popularity”
Source: Leadership Rules: 50 Timeless Lessons for Leaders
“Seeking refuge in ‘faith’ adds to ‘strength’, and not a ‘weekness’!!”
Source: The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!
“Seeking revenge: what a lack of foresight.”
Source: A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney
“Seeking sacredness through scripture literalism is like sunbathing in the microwave, it only burns your skin, and cooks your brain.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“Seeking success builds character.”
Source: No Cross No Crown
“Seeking support from friends and and family is like having people gathered around at your deathbed. It's nice, but when the ship sails, all they can do is stand on the dock waving goodbye.”
Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
“Seeking survival, hostile, hidden from sight,
Deliciously flavoured - juicy, sweet bite,
Exploding senses preparing to ignite,
Inspiring to escape from the suffocating night.”
Source: Dark Woods
“Seeking the balance kills the genius!”
Source: When It Sucks It Blows
“Seeking the Cave is part travelogue, part literary history, and part spiritual journey. James Lenfestey is a lively and entertaining tour guide. Modest, funny, curious, and wide open to the world, he gives us perceptive glimpses of Chinese culture, ancient to contemporary, and into what it means to be a poet, both now and twelve centuries ago. The account of his quest to find Han Shan's cave is a delight from beginning to end.”
“Seeking the counsel of trusted and respected health professionals can also be helpful in providing parents with some balance for their concerns as well as other avenues of support.”
“Seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, all the time, and his hand in every happening; This is what it means to be contemplative in the heart of the world. Seeing and adoring the presence of Jesus, especially in the lowly appearance of bread, and in the distressing disguise of the poor.”
“Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.”
“Seeking the ideal has a long history, it produces many saints but few paradigm changes.”
“Seeking the invisible through the imagery of the visible, the Americans never can get quite all the way to the end of the American dream.”
Source: Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion
“Seeking the kingdom of God leads to joy and happiness.”
“Seeking the pleasure of conjugality without a willingness to assume the responsibilities of rearing a family is one of the onslaughts that now batter at the structure of the American home. Intelligence and mutual consideration should be ever-present factors in determining the coming of children to the home.”
“Seeking the truth and finding it is easier than believing and living it.”