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• What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted.

  Alex Campbell

  Exhausted, Realizing, Pleasure

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• Why should I laugh?' asked the old man. 'Madness in youth is true wisdom. Go, young man, follow your dream, and if you do not find the happiness that you seek, at any rate you will have had the happiness of seeking it.

  Andrew Lang

  Dream, Men, Laughing

  Andrew Lang, Henry Justice Ford, Lancelot Speed (1966). “The Red Fairy Book”, p.260, Courier Corporation

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• The true, or higher part of the self is always seeking the state that mystics talk about, the state in which we are filled with a universal love and a peaceful euphoria.

  James Redfield

  Self, Inner Peace, Peaceful

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• The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life

  Jonathan Edwards

  Christian, Kingdoms, Chiefs

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• We can’t save ourselves from fear by seeking safety, because safety always means there’s something to be safe from-in other words, something to fear. The way out of fear isn’t safety. It’s freedom.

  Martha Beck

  Mean, Safety, Way

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• Wisdom lies not in possessing knowledge
  - which quickly becomes outdated -
  but in perpetually seeking it.

  Paul Johnson

  Lying, Outdated, Possessing

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• Whatever you're seeking-it's seeking You

  Les Brown

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• The great barrier to worship among God's people is not that we are always seeking our own satisfaction, but that our seeking is so weak and half-hearted that we settle for little sips at broken cisterns when the fountain of life is just over the next hill.

  John Piper

  People, Broken, Half

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• He imagined the pain of the world to be like some formless parasitic being seeking out the warmth of human souls wherein to incubate and he thought he knew what made one liable to its visitations. What he had not known was that it was mindless and so had no way to know the limits of those souls and what he feared was that there might be no limits.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Pain, Soul, Might

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.263, Pan Macmillan

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• It is a myth that man in his natural state is genuinely seeking God. Men do seek God. But they do not seek him for who he is. They seek him in a pinch as one who might preserve them from death or enhance their worldly enjoyments. Apart from conversion, no one comes to the light of God.

  John Piper

  Men, Light, Might

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• You prove but too clearly that seeking to know Is too frequently learning to doubt.

  John Denham

  Doubt, Prove, Knows

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• Whenever you put happiness before righteousness, you will be doomed to misery. That is the great message of the Bible from beginning to end. They alone are truly happy who are seeking to be righteous.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Bible, Messages, Misery

  David Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1959). “Studies in the Sermon on the Mount”

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• Forget the cringing selves you sometimes are and remember, instead, the magic essence of your own being that sings even now through your fingertips. That is the reality which you are seeking. Experience it fully.

  Seth

  Reality, Self, Essence

  Jane Roberts, Seth (1972). “Seth speaks: the eternal validity of the soul”, Bookthrift Co

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• I never revolted in vain, as a rebel or as a tyrant, but I rose seeking reformation for the nation of my grandfather Mohammad. I intend to enjoin good and forbid evil, to act according to the traditions of my grandfather, and my father Ali Ibn Abi-Talib.

  Husayn ibn Ali

  Father, Tyrants, Evil

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• Meditation puts into question more or less everything you tend to do in your search for happiness. But if you lose sight of this, it can become just another strategy for seeking happiness - a more refined version of the problem you already have.

  Sam Harris

  Sight, Meditation, Problem

  "Taming the Mind". Interview with with Dan Harris, samharris.org. September 17, 2014.

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• Successful trial lawyers are like heat-seeking missiles carrying payloads of information prejudicial to their opponent's case, constantly looking for the chance to unload their cargo, right up until the final moments of trial.

  David Berg

  Successful, Trials, Opponents

  David Berg (2006). “The Trial Lawyer: What it Takes to Win”, p.12, American Bar Association

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• Good storytelling for me is not so much technical expertise, which I know is applauded often; it's actually freshness of approach. It does mean you sometimes stumble and fall and make a horrible mess of things in seeking that freshness, but you should always keep trying to do that.

  Danny Boyle

  Fall, Mean, Trying

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 26, 2008.

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• We all have to announce our full solidarity with the struggle of those seeking freedom and justice in Syria, and translate this sympathy into a clear political vision that supports a peaceful transition to a democratic system of rule that reflects the demands of the Syrian people for freedom.

  Mohammed Morsi

  Sympathy, Struggle, People

  "Morsi criticises Syria at Tehran meeting". www.aljazeera.com. August 30, 2012.

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• I've had an addiction for a long time to the whole business of maximizing one's potential, what I call human activation. The vehicle for actualizing oneself is choice, options, seeking out the proper choices.

  Padgett Powell

  Long, Addiction, Choices

  Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 30, 2012.

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• t is for me because I needed to do this. I really think actors shouldn't act unless they really need it in their lives. I think it has to be something that is so much a part of your chemistry, such a passion, that you can't live without it. You should not do it just because you are seeking fame or want to get rich.

  John Leguizamo

  Passion, Thinking, Needs

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something, always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They choose reason over custom. They fix their minds on the sublime and let their bodies change with the seasons.

  Bodhidharma

  Wise, People, Sublime

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.5, Macmillan

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• In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  People, Survival, Times Of Crisis

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• As soon as the theoretician attempts to take account of so-called 'utility' and 'reality' instead of absolute truth, his work will cease to be a polar star of seeking humanity and instead will become a prescription for everyday life.

  Adolf Hitler

  Stars, Reality, Humanity

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He who trusts himself for safety to the care of a wicked man, in seeking succor meets with ruin.

  Periander

  Men, Safety, Wicked

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• If I were capable of assisting someone, I would do it in a manner that would cause the person seeking assistance to work, so he assists himself.

  Ameen Rihani

  Causes, Persons, Ifs

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