Seeking Quotes - Page 19

• 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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• Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Imagining Yourself, Mind, True Nature

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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 symbol of the race ought to be a human being carrying an ax, for every human being has one concealed about him somewhere, and is always seeking the opportunity to grind it.

  Mark Twain

  Opportunity, Race, Grind

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.187, Courier Corporation

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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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• My whole life has been one of seeking experience.

  Jerry Kramer

  Whole Life, Whole, Has Beens

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• The Fourth Amendment is clear; we should be secure in our persons, houses, papers, and effects, and all warrants must have probable cause. Today the government operates largely in secret, while seeking to know everything about our private lives - without probable cause and without a warrant.

  Ron Paul

  Government, House, Secret

  "Ron Paul: We need to know more about what the government is doing". www.campaignforliberty.org. June 10, 2013.

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• Running is a very natural activity. If you get too caught up, you find yourself constantly seeking to make running something that it isn't. You should let it be what it is - a very simple activity. Running has become too complicated for many people and they wind up turning sour on the sport, or losing the focus of their direction.

  Bill Rodgers

  Sports, Running, Simple

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• The mortal nature is seeking as far as is possible to be everlasting and immortal: and this is only to be attained by generation, because the new is always left in the place of the old.

  Plato

  Generations, Immortality, Everlasting

  Plato (2012). “Six Great Dialogues: Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Symposium, The Republic”, p.170, Courier Corporation

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• It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. He must be like Sophocles' Oedipus, who, seeking enlightenment concerning his terrible fate, pursues his indefatigable inquiry even though he divines that appalling horror awaits him in the answer. But most of us carry with us the Jocasta in our hearts, who begs Oedipus, for God's sake, not to inquire further.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophy, Heart, Fate

  Letter to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, November 1819.

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• Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.

  James Bovard

  Class, People, Definitions

  "Talkin' to America" with Aaron Zelman, jpfo.org.

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• There is no indispensable man. The government will not collapse and go to pieces if any one of the gentlemen who are seeking to be entrusted with its guidance should be left at home.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Home, Men, Gentleman

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1978). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Wives invariably flourish when deserted; ... it is the deserting male, the reckless idealist rushing about the world seeking a non-existent felicity, who often ends in disaster.

  William McFee

  Rushing, Wife, Infidelity

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• If we seek God for our own good and profit, we are not seeking God.

  Meister Eckhart

  God, Profit, Ifs

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• Return from existence to nonexistence. You are seeking the Lord and you belong to him. Nonexistence is a place of income; flee it not. This existence of more and less is a place of expenditure.

  Rumi

  Meditation, Income, Return

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• Everyone, whether he is self-denying or self-indulgent, is seeking after the Beloved. Every place may be the shrine of love, whether it be mosque or synagogue.

  Hafez

  God, Self, Mosques

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• We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.

  Dean Acheson

  Cooperation, Instruments, United Nations

  Dean Acheson (1950). “Strengthening the Forces of Freedom: Selected Speeches and Statements of Secretary of State Acheson, February 1949 - April 1950 [and Supplement May-June 1950].”

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• Peace is not something you fight for With bombs and missiles that kill, Nor can it be won in a "battle of words" One fashions by scheming and skill For those who are greedy and warlike, Whose avarice for power cannot cease, Can never contribute in helping To bring this world nearer to peace For in seeking peace for all people There is only one place to begin And that is in each home and heart- For the fortress of peace is within!

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Fashion, Peace, Home

  Helen Steiner Rice (2003). “Especially for Mothers”, Barbour Publishing

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• But it is also untrue that I have nothing specific in mind. As with my landscapes: I see countless landscapes, photograph barely 1 in 100,000, and paint barely 1 in 100 of those that I photograph. I am therefore seeking something quite specific; from this I conclude that I know what I want.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Mind, Landscape

  FaceBook post by Gerhard Richter from Mar 19, 2015

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• Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?

  Isaac Asimov

  Life, Attitude, Answers

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Prelude to Foundation”, p.281, Spectra

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• In this noisy, restless, bewildering age, there is a great need for quietness of spirit. Even in our communion with God we are so busy presenting our problems, asking for help, seeking relief that we leave no moments of silence to listen for God's answers. By practice we can learn to submerge our spirits beneath the turbulent surface waves of life and reach that depth of our being where all is still, where no storms can reach us. Here only can we forget the material world and its demands on us.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Wave Of Life, Asking For Help, Practice

  Alice Hegan Rice (2013). “My Pillow Book”, p.29, Read Books Ltd

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