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• Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is no quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr.

  Henry Suso

  Pain, Law, Suffering

  "Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Man's Spiritual Consciousness". Book by Evelyn Underhill, p. 152, 1912.

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• The artist's quest is to succeed in combining and balancing all compositional attributes and physical elements into those that are purely spiritual. That is the secret of art.

  Edward J. Fraughton

  Spiritual, Art, Secret

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• How to obtain freedom has been, and is, mankind's most important quest.

  John Pugsley

  Important, Liberty, Libertarian

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• Purify your life by keeping the commandments. This will help you qualify for the Spirit, who will assist you in your quest.

  Ann M. Dibb

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Helping

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• The spiritual quest begins, for most people, as a search for meaning.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Love, Spiritual, People

  Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

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• The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.

  Immanuel Kant

  Inspirational, Order, Humans

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• Remember, the essence of storytelling demands that we place our main characters on a path. A quest with something at stake, with something to do, to achieve, to learn, and to change.

  Larry Brooks

  Character, Essence, Demand

  Larry Brooks (2011). “Story Engineering”, p.77, Writer's Digest Books

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• Actualization of self cannot be sought as a goal in its own right. . . . Rather, it seems to be a by-product of active commitment of one's talents to some cause, outside the self, such as the quest for beauty, truth, or justice.

  Sidney Jourard

  Commitment, Self, Justice

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• All our surest statements about the nature of the world are mathematical statements, yet we do not know what mathematics "is"... and so we find that we have adapted a religion strikingly similar to many traditional faiths. Change "mathematics" to "God" and little else might seem to change. The problem of human contact with some spiritual realm, of timelessness, of our inability to capture all with language and symbol-all have their counterparts in the quest for the nature of Platonic mathematics.

  John D. Barrow

  God, Spiritual, Littles

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• The study of infinity is much more than a dry academic game. The intellectual pursuit of the absolute infinity is, as Georg Cantor realized, a form of the soul's quest for God. Whether or not the goal is ever reached, an awareness of the process brings enlightenment.

  Rudy Rucker

  God, Education, Math

  Rudy Rucker (2013). “Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite”, p.19, Princeton University Press

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• Eventhough you are not equipped,
  keep searching:
  equipment isn't necessary on the way to the Lord.
  Whoever you see engaged in search,
  become her friend and cast your head in front of her,
  for choosing to be a neighbour of seekers,
  you become one yourself;
  protected by conquerors,
  you will yourself learn to conquer.
  If an ant seeks the rank of Solomon,
  don't smile contemptuously upon its quest.
  And of all your skills, and wealth and handicraft,
  Weren't they first merely a thought and a quest?

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Islamic, Skills

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• In the quest for comparative advantage, investment will flow towards those countries that can offer more output for fewer emissions. Inaction will cost jobs. Action will support jobs.

  Julia Gillard

  Country, Jobs, Support

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• If it were any other way, it would be easy. And if it were any other way, everyone would do it and your work would ultimately be devalued. The yin and yang are clear: without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it's unlikely it would be worth the journey. Persist.

  Seth Godin

  Journey, Talking, People

  Seth Godin (2011). “Tribes: We need you to lead us”, p.82, Hachette UK

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• Our demons are our own limitations, which shut us off from the realization of the ubiquity of the spirit . . . each of these demons is conquered in a vision quest.

  Joseph Campbell

  Ubiquity, Vision, Realization

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• A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to protect you but your own severity, or you may try to cheat, to fake the evidence and evade the effort of the quest - but if devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

  Ayn Rand

  Cheating, Truth, Responsibility

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.961, Penguin

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• It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the philosophy of non-violence. The Negro all over the South must come to the point that he can say to his white brother: "We will match your capacity to inflict suffering with our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. We will not hate you, but we will not obey your evil laws. We will soon wear you down by pure capacity to suffer".

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Brother, Hate, Philosophy

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• What inspires me is anxiety and the quest to try to change things in my life. ...I got addicted to endings and beginnings and to the idea of always moving around. ...Obviously, whenever you're going through something that's the best time to create, if you're going through something amazing, or horrible, or nothing at all you should be creating. Unfortunately the songwriters of today generally torture themselves to make sure they're writing good songs and take it a little too seriously.

  Kevin Drew

  Song, Moving, Writing

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• Jon Land writes great fiction, and Betrayal reads like the best of it. The fact that it's true makes the story all the more riveting. . . . A sobering indictment of our law enforcement system and one man's relentless quest to see justice done.

  Robert Leuci

  Betrayal, Writing, Men

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• Mine is a quiet exploration—a quest for new meanings in color, texture and design. Even though I sometimes portray scenes of poor and struggling people, it is a great joy to paint.

  Lois Mailou Jones

  Art, Struggle, Color

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• The bigger point here is that golf is a good metaphor for one's life. The challenge of golf for me is trying to learn new rules. It's something you always have to work at; you don't get perfect at golf. It's the never-ending quest for betterment.

  Morgan Freeman

  Golf, Perfect, Challenges

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• A Tribe Called Quest music was so inclusive, so conscious, it brought such a community together.

  Michael Rapaport

  Community, Together, Tribes

  "Actor-director Michael Rapaport". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 7, 2011.

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• I copied everything I did in Galaxy Quest from Bill Paxton in Aliens, I owe him some credit.

  Sam Rockwell

  Credit, Bills, Aliens

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• Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life.

  Branford Marsalis

  Inspiring, Men, Perfect

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• Maybe some of my quest for success comes from Joan of Arc but theres no conscious part of Catholicism in my life.

  Joan Van Ark

  Conscious, Arcs, Catholicism

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• To me, photography is like a quest, or a pilgrimage, or a hunt. I love painting, I love music, but photography is what has allowed me to get outside of myself.

  Edouard Boubat

  Photography, Painting, Music Love

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