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• Sometimes when we awaken from the bad dream of disowning ourselves, we think that the sojourn to self-discovery is a new one. But it is an ancient quest.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Dream, Healing, Thinking

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (1999). “Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self”, G K Hall & Company

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• MOST of the ugliness in the human narrative comes from a distorted quest to possess beauty. COVETING begins with appreciating blessings: MURDER begins with a hunger for justice. LUST begins with a recognition of beauty. GLUTTONY begins when our enjoyment of the delectable gifts of GOD starts to consume us. IDOLATRY begins when our seeing a reflection of God in something beautiful leads to our thinking that the beautiful image bearer is worthy of WORSHIP.

  Shane Claiborne

  Beautiful, Thinking, Blessing

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• Looking at the world today, we might easily forget that the main purpose of our life - you could call it the heart of being human - is to be happy. All of us share the same wish, and the same right, to seek happiness and avoid suffering. Even following a spiritual path, or the religious life, is a quest for happiness.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Spiritual, Religious, Heart

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• Without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it's unlikely to be worth the journey. Persist.

  Seth Godin

  Journey, Talking, People

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.63, Penguin

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• J. Budziszewski is perhaps the clearest and most eloquent natural lawyer writing today. When reading his works I often find myself amazed by his insights and wondering, 'Why didn’t I think of that?' And then it dawns on me, 'That's what C. S. Lewis and G. K. Chesterton do to me as well.' The Line Through the Heart is another destination in J. Budziszewski's philosophical quest to lead his readers to the promised land of the good, the true, and the beautiful, to guide us to that place where we have always been but can't seem to find.

  Francis J. Beckwith

  Beautiful, Philosophical, Reading

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• In Einstein's theory of relativity the observer is a man who sets out in quest of truth armed with a measuring-rod. In quantum theory he sets out with a sieve.

  Arthur Eddington

  Men, Physics, Quantum

  Arthur Eddington (2012). “New Pathways in Science: Messenger Lectures (1934)”, p.267, Cambridge University Press

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• One may ask the question as to the extent to which the quest for beauty is an aim in the pursuit of science. . . . It is, indeed, an incredible fact that what the human mind, at its deepest and most profound, perceives as beautiful finds its realization in external nature. What is intelligible is also beautiful.

  Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

  Beautiful, Math, Science

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• The true seeker hunts naught but the object of his quest, and the lover has no desire save union with his Beloved.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Desire, Unions, Spirit

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• Self-production: the characteristic of living systems to continuously renew themselves and to regulate this process in such a way that the integrity of their structure is maintained. It is a natural process which supports the quest for structure, process renewal and integrity.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Integrity, Learning, Self

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• Love is the eternal quest: almost everyone wants to love and be loved.

  Jay McInerney

  Love Is, Want, Eternal

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• We have strayed away from God, and He is in quest of us; Like us, He is humble and is a prisoner of desire: He is hidden in every atom, and yet is a stranger to us: He is revealed in the moonlight, and in the embrace of houses.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  God, Humble, House

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• The Quest of the Holy Grail, the Search for the Stone of the Philosophers - by whatever name we choose to call the Great Work - is therefore endless. Success only opens up new avenues of brilliant possibility. Yea, verily, and Amen! the task is tireless and its joys without bounds; for the whole Universe, and all that in it is, what is it but the infinite playground of the Crowned and Conquering Child, of the insatiable, the innocent, the ever-rejoicing Heir of Space and Eternity, whose name is MAN?

  Aleister Crowley

  Children, Men, Names

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Little Essays Toward Truth”

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• I used to audition like crazy - I would go on a hundred before I got anything. It took me a long time to get any jobs at all. It was hard until I booked 'Galaxy Quest,' and then it started to get easier.

  Missi Pyle

  Jobs, Crazy, Long

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• I heard Q-Tip on the Jungle Brothers' song 'The Promo.' It was very exciting. It was very new. The music and the culture around hip-hop was evolving. I think there's an emotional quality to their music and there's a vulnerability to the music. For me, A Tribe Called Quest was my Beatles.

  Michael Rapaport

  Song, Brother, Emotional

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• Like any family, like any group - the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, EPMD, Public Enemy - they've had bumps in the road. I just think that because A Tribe Called Quest is so precious to fans, they were concerned about unveiling some of those things.

  Michael Rapaport

  Thinking, Enemy, Groups

  "Michael Rapaport explains Q-Tip's beef with his A Tribe Called Quest documentary" by Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. January 17, 2011.

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• We may appreciate the efforts, and even the greatness of the men who have tried to find the universal, the general 'behind' appearances; yet at the same time their quest was doomed to fail, for all universals break down as soon as the Creator, He who made man in His image, is denied or left out of account.

  Hans Rookmaaker

  Art, Greatness, Men

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• It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are so remote, many people assume we should not be interested. But this quest to understand the world is what defines us as human beings.

  Yuri Milner

  Thinking, People, Black

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• King's Quest IV was a much bigger hit than I, II, or III. I do feel that King's Quest IV was a pivotal game in bringing in more female players.

  Roberta Williams

  Kings, Player, Games

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• Most of us do not even know how to ask a question. Most of us do not see the root of the word 'question' is 'quest'. Most of us don't have a quest in our life.

  Richard Saul Wurman

  Roots, Know How, Knows

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• Orville Schell and John Delury have delivered a brilliantly original and essential book: the road map to China’s quest for national salvation... Vivid, literate, and brimming with insights, Wealth and Power deserves to become a classic.

  Evan Osnos

  Book, Essentials, Maps

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• In our quest to quickly make three-dimensional objects, we can miss out on the experience of making something that helps give us our first understandings of form and material, of the way a material behaves--'I press too hard here, and it breaks here' and so on. Some of the digital rendering tools are impressive, but it's important that people still really try and figure out a way of gaining direct experience with the materials.

  Jonathan Ive

  People, Giving, Missing

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• Forget purpose. It’s okay to be happy without one. The quest for a single purpose has ruined many lives.

  James Altucher

  Purpose, Forget, Okay

  FaceBook post by James Altucher from Jul 29, 2016

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• Every day I wake up and that’s my goal, to be on a constant quest for knowledge and do something different, being unique and being uncommon.

  Russell Wilson

  Unique, Goal, Different

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• I've been on a quest for spiritual answers for a long time. The things I've learned about interconnectedness and non-duality and the feeling of tapping into your soul that goes beyond the edge of your skin is important to me. Once I learned that, I'm far less often trapped in my own little man problems. Me against the universe problems.

  Jim Carrey

  Spiritual, Men, Long

  "Jim Carrey On His 'World Stopping' New Book". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, yahoo.com. September 24, 2013.

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• R.G. Belsky's thought-provoking thriller, The Kennedy Connection, introduces us to a smart, witty, and human hero whose quest to find answers about two crimes - one famous, one all but unnoticed - is loaded with tension and full of unexpected twists and turns. I loved The Kennedy Connection, and can't wait for the next Gil Malloy novel.

  Jan Burke

  Witty, Smart, Hero

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