Seeking Quotes - Page 19

• All time is wasted that is not spent in seeking God

  Lahiri Mahasaya

  All Time, Seeking God

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• The kind who live for music and are constantly seeking it out, anywhere they can. Who can't imagine a life without it. They're enlightened.

  Sarah Dessen

  Kind, Imagine, Enlightened

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.96, Penguin

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• That will be the position I will be in as long as I'm on earth--that is, seeking the right path that God would have laid out for me.

  Sarah Palin

  Long, Earth, Path

  Interview with Jay Newton-Small, content.time.com. August 29, 2008.

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• It is not a character fault or weakness or seeking attention. It is somebody who is ill.

  Jerry Reed

  Character, Weakness, Attention

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• I write because I admire the act of rationalization, of seeking clarity in one's understanding of the complexities of life, and I'm bad at it. I'm slow. Writing, which is an arduous and slow process, proceeds at the same rate as my sloth-like mind.

  Gregory Maguire

  Writing, Understanding, Sloth

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• Be what it is that you are seeking.

  Wayne Dyer

  "Words With Wayne Dyer". Interview with Karl Saliter, www.elephantjournal.com. May 4, 2014.

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• Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters-self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification, and self-seeking.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Pride, Self, Matter

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• The dictionary describes a selfish person as one who is 'concerned excessively or exclusively with oneself: seeking pleasure or well-being without regard for others.' May we add, a selfish person is often one who refers to 'I,' 'me,' and 'mine' rather than to 'we,' 'ours,' 'yours,' or 'theirs.' This person is anxious to be in the limelight, to be on center stage in life's little dramas. He or she may be a poor listener, or a conversation monopolizer. Selfishness is the great unknown sin. No selfish person ever thought himself to be selfish.

  H. Burke Peterson

  Drama, Selfish, Add

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• Jesus’ message of the Kingdom of God is the announcement by word and deed that God is acting and manifesting dynamically his redemptive will in history. God is seeking out sinners; he is inviting them to enter into the messianic blessing; he is demanding of them a favorable response to his gracious offer. God has again spoken. A new prophet has appeared, indeed one who is more than a prophet, one who bring to people the very blessings he promises.

  George Eldon Ladd

  Jesus, Blessing, People

  George Eldon Ladd (1996). “The Presence of the Future: The Eschatology of Biblical Realism”, p.178, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Reagents are regarded as acting by virtue of a constitutional affinity either for electrons or for nuclei... the terms electrophilic (electron-seeking) and nucleophilic (nucleus-seeking) are suggested... and the organic molecule, in the activation necessary for reaction, is therefore required to develop at the seat of attack either a high or low electron density as the case may be.

  Christopher Kelk Ingold

  Science, Acting, Nomenclature

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• Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

  Plato

  Persuasion, Knows

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• Destructive thoughts and emotions undermine the very causes of peace and happiness. If you think clearly about it, it makes no sense to think you’re seeking happiness, if you do nothing to restrain angry, spiteful, and malicious thoughts and emotions.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Causes, Emotion

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• There is no regularly constituted church of Christ on earth, nor any person qualified to administer any church ordinances; nor can there be until new apostles are sent by the Great Head of the Church for whose coming I am seeking.

  Roger Williams

  Church, Earth, Christ

  "Picturesque America, or the Land We Live In". Book edited by William Cullen Bryant, Volume 1, p. 502, 1872.

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• The vast army of women seeking divorce are mainly after easy alimony from men they have ceased to love - surely one of the most despicable forms of barter that can exchange human hands.

  Fannie Hurst

  Divorce, Army, Men

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• Political campaign must not be aimed at collecting ballots, instead, it's honestly aim at seeking support for an ideology.

  Khem Veasna

  Support, Political, Campaigns

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• I am often asked by would-be entrepreneurs seeking escape from life within huge corporate structures, ‘How do I build a small firm for myself?’ The answer seems obvious: Buy a very large one and just wait.

  Paul Ormerod

  Entrepreneur, Waiting, Would Be

  Paul Ormerod (2010). “Why Most Things Fail”, p.20, Faber & Faber

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• The music of the far-away summer flutters around the Autumn seeking its former nest.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Summer, Autumn, Nests

  Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Stray Birds”, p.19, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Seeking the kingdom of God leads to joy and happiness.

  Allan F. Packer

  Joy, Kingdoms, Kingdom Of God

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• It's impossible to imagine the Democratic Party seeking a pro-life, free-trading, non-protectionist deficit hawk.

  John McCain

  Party, Pro Life, Politics

  "Recruiting McCain to the Democratic Ticket". www.newsbusters.org.

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• The main point of any spiritual practice is to step out of the bureaucracy of ego. This means stepping out of ego's constant desire for a higher, more spiritual, more transcendental version of knowledge, religion, virtue, judgment, comfort, or whatever it is that the particular ego is seeking. One must step out of spiritual materialism.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Spiritual, Mean, Practice

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings”, p.16, Shambhala Publications

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• No doubt exists that rent seeking in general leads to serious inefficiencies in this direct sense, but its indirect damage is even worse. Drawing the bulk of intelligent and energetic people in society into activity that has no social product, or may have a negative social product, is more important in explaining the stagnation of these societies than the direct social cost of the rent seeking.

  Gordon Tullock

  Intelligent, Drawing, People

  Gordon Tullock, Gordon L. Brady, Arthur Seldon (2002). “Government Failure: A Primer in Public Choice”, p.49, Cato Institute

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• A nation usually renews its youth on a political sick-bed, and there finds again the spirit which it had gradually lost in seeking and maintaining power.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sick, Political, Bed

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.197, Courier Corporation

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• Life is a search after power; and this is an element with which the world is so saturated,-there is no chink or crevice in which it is not lodged,-that no honest seeking goes unrewarded.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power, Elements, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.28, Harvard University Press

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• Why shouldn't you strengthen your own vibrations through fellowship with people seeking Self-realization, and by group meditation with them? This practice will fortify your own spiritual convictions you will find that many seemingly insuperable barriers in your life will crumble and dissolve in the waters of meditation. Your devotion and love for God will commingle with the devotion and love of others. Divine bliss will radiate from you, helping all persons you meet.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Spiritual, Self, Practice

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• Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Perception Of Beauty, Delight, Pleasure

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