Seeking Quotes - Page 16

• Seeking happiness in material things is a sure way of being unhappy.

  Pope Francis

  Unhappy, Way, Seeking Happiness

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• It is a vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us, for the sake of finding a greater blessing, instead of seeking it where alone it is to be found - in loving obedience.

  George Eliot

  Work, Blessing, Sake

  GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.405

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• Anyone in a state of seeking can never be happy. Only those who are constantly finding are fulfilled. And finding is not something that happens to us - it is something we do.

  Alan Cohen

  Action, States, Fulfilled

  "The Dragon Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Loving Fully, Living Freely". Book by Alan Cohen, 1993.

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• The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind. Such a man is not malleable; he may be mistaken, he may be fooled in a given instance, but he is inflexible in regard to the absolutism of reality, i.e., in seeking and demanding truth.

  Ayn Rand

  Confidence, Self Esteem, Men

  AYN RAND “THE NEW LEFT: THE ANTI-INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION”

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• When you are at one with the world, you often find that the thing you seek is seeking you.

  Charles F. Haanel

  Law Of Attraction, World, Attraction

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• If we do not use great care to mortify our will, there are many things which can deprives us of the holy freedom of spirit that we are seeking in order to fly more freely to our Creator, without always being bogged down with the clay of this earth. Moreover, there can never be solid virtue in a soul that is attached to its own will.

  Teresa of Avila

  Attachment, Order, Soul

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• Fear in sooth holds so in check all mortals, becasue thay see many operations go on in earth and heaven, the causes of which they can in no way understand, believing them therefore to be done by power divine. for these reasons when we shall have seen that nothing can be produced from nothing, we shall then more correctly ascertain that which we are seeking, both the elements out of which every thing can be produced and the manner in which every thing can be produced in which all things are done without the hands of the gods.

  Lucretius

  Believe, Hands, Heaven

  Lucretius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)”, p.15, Delphi Classics

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• There will always be dissident voices heard in the land, expressing opposition without alternatives, finding fault but never favor, perceiving gloom on every side and seeking influence without responsibility.

  John F. Kennedy

  Responsibility, Voice, Land

  Undelivered Speech to the Dallas Citizens Council, delivered 22 November 1963, Trade Mart, Dallas, Texas

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• One simple change - seeking and finding peace within - could, if it were undertaken by everyone, end all wars, eliminate conflict and prevent injustice. World peace is a personal thing. What is needed is not a change of circumstance, but a change of consciousness.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  War, Simple, World

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Oct 14, 2014

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• I’ve long advised that bloggers seeking to make money from blogging spread their interests across multiple revenue streams so as not to put all their eggs in one basket.

  Darren Rowse

  Funny, Thoughtful, Eggs

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• We are not seeking to impose a recall.

  Joel Klein

  Recalls

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• The ban directly hampers the partys ability to spread its message and hamstrings voters seeking to inform themselves about the candidates and issues.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Issues, Voters, Messages

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• States like these [Iran, Iraq, North Korae], and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. By seeking weapons of mass destruction, these regimes pose a grave and growing danger. They could provide these arms to terrorists, giving them the means to match their hatred. They could attack our allies or attempt to blackmail the United States. In any of these cases, the price of indifference would be catastrophic.

  George W. Bush

  Mean, Iraq, Mass Destruction

  First (Official) Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 29 January 2002

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• Life is very short... but I would like to live four times and if I could, I would set out to do no other things than I am seeking now to do.

  William Merritt Chase

  Life, Four, Aging

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• God often works more by the life of the illiterate seeking the things that are God's, than by the ability of the learned seeking the things that are their own.

  Anselm of Canterbury

  Ability, Illiterate

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p.123, 1895.

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• Like the advocates of Birth Control, the eugenists, for instance, are seeking to assist the race toward the elimination of the unfit. Both are seeking a single end but they lay emphasis upon different methods.

  Margaret Sanger

  Race, Different, Birth Control

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• On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled, seeking safety over the Indian border.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Safety, Tree, Tanks

  Jhumpa Lahiri (2000). “Interpreter of Maladies”, p.31, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All that you are seeking is also seeking you.

  Unknown

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• Each time a swarm of worries invades your mind, refuse to be affected; wait calmly, while seeking the remedy. Spray the worries with the powerful chemical of your peace.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Powerful, Worry, Waiting

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• Living with doubt ... is almost always more profitable than living with certainty.
  People don't like doubt, so they pay money and give up opportunities to avoid it.
  Entrepreneurshi p is largely about living with doubt. If you need reassurance, you're giving up quite a bit to get it. On the other hand, if you can get in the habit of seeking out uncertainty, you'll have developed a great instinct.

  Seth Godin

  Giving Up, Opportunity, Hands

  "Living with doubt". sethgodin.typepad.com. December 5, 2010.

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• I hear the word 'tolerance'-tha t some people are trying to teach people to be tolerant of gays. I'm not satisfied with that word. I am gay, and I am not seeking to be 'tolerated'. One tolerates a toothache, rush-hour traffic, an annoying neighbor with a cluttered yard. I am not a negative to be tolerated.

  Chely Wright

  Gay, People, Tolerance

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• 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.

  Steven Pressfield

  Goodbye, Nice, People

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.51, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• Walk with those seeking truth...

  Deepak Chopra

  Walks, Seeking Truth

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• Eventually we grow weary of seeking treasures outside
  ourselves and we begin to look within. There we discover
  that the gold we sought, we already are.

  Alan Cohen

  Gold, Looks, Treasure

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• I have listened
  And I have looked
  With open eyes.
  I have poured my soul
  Into the world
  Seeking the unknown
  Within the known.
  And I sing out loud
  In amazement.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Eye, Soul, World

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