Seeking Quotes - Page 39

• I proceeded in my national mission, seeking to pave the way for an understanding between His Majesty and the other ruling princes of Arabia.

  Ameen Rihani

  Understanding, Arabia, Majesty

  Ameen Fares Rihani (1930). “Around the Coasts of Arabia”

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• The good life for man is the life spent in seeking for the good life for man, and the virtues necessary for the seeking are those which will enable us to understand what more and what else the good life for man is.

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Good Life, Men, Virtue

  Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.254, A&C Black

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• It is wisdom that is seeking for wisdom.

  Shunryu Suzuki

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• The thing we tell of can never be found be seeking, yet only seekers find it.

  Bayazid Bastami

  Found, Sufism, Sufi Love

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• High tax rates in the upper income brackets allow politicians to win votes with class warfare rhetoric, painting their opponents as defenders of the rich. Meanwhile, the same politicians can win donations from the rich by creating tax loopholes that can keep the rich from actually paying those higher tax rates - or perhaps any taxes at all. What is worse than class warfare is phony class warfare. Slippery talk about 'fairness' is at the heart of this fraud by politicians seeking to squander more of the nation's resources.

  Thomas Sowell

  Heart, Winning, Class

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• The fool is his own enemy. Seeking wealth, he destroys himself. Seek rather the other shore.

  Gautama Buddha

  Enemy, Fool, Wealth

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• You're treated as though you're just a piece of meat, and you're there for consumption by men. I feel like the common thing is men feeling entitled to treat you how they want to treat you. You never feel as though you have a right to the space. And so that's the theme behind most of the posters - "I'm not outside for your entertainment" and "I'm not seeking your validation."

  Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

  Men, Validation, Space

  "Meet the Woman Who Waged an Artistic War Against Her Street Harassers". Interview with Nina Liss-Schultz, www.motherjones.com. November 27, 2013.

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• It's a tragedy what is happening, what Bush is doing. All Bush wants is Iraqi oil. There is no doubt that the U.S. is behaving badly. Why are they not seeking to confiscate weapons of mass destruction from their ally Israel? This is just an excuse to get Iraq's oil.

  Nelson Mandela

  Mass Destruction, Israel, Oil

  Iraq War speech, January 29, 2003.

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• You cannot avoid paradise. You can only avoid seeking it.

  Joko Beck

  Paradise

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• We're all seeking...the rapture of being alive.

  Joseph Campbell

  Alive, Rapture

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• In my sculpture, it's not an image I am seeking, it's not an idea. My goal is to re-live a past emotion. My art is an exorcism, and beauty is something I never talk about.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Art, Past, Ideas

  Louise Bourgeois (1998). “Destruction of the Father, Reconstruction of the Father: Writings and Interviews, 1923-1997”

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• Because we are God's children...we can bring our needs to him with certainty in prayer.... Prayer is not some kind of heavenly lottery. Nor does the Bible counsel us to pray with an "I hope this will work"...attitude. Instead...prayer brings us before the throne of grace as children seeking the help of their heavenly Father. That's the heart of breakthrough, successful prayer-the bold confidence that we are talking to the Father who delights to supply our needs.

  Jim Cymbala

  Children, Attitude, Prayer

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• I'd say seeking is one of the fundamental artistic impulses. Art is about discovery. The medium is not the message.

  John Paul Caponigro

  Art, Discovery, Fundamentals

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• I am ready for love but I'm not desperately seeking it.

  Sharon Stone

  Ready For Love, Ready

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The United States, after all, was founded by men of liberal sentiment who were seeking to promote the greatest good for the greatest number, by creating a constitutional order for the creation and expansion of liberty.

  Douglas Massey

  Men, Order, Creating

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• From 1976, Judy to 1996, we had six presidential elections. And it was run under the Campaign Finance Reform Act of 1974. In all six of them, every candidate agreed to limits of what he could collect in contributions and what he could spend in seeking a nomination. And they all abided by it.

  Mark Shields

  Running, Presidential, Reform

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I've always been aggressive and an underdog, and my dad was worried that I would always be that: constantly seeking inspiration from negativity.

  Doseone

  Dad, Inspiration, Negativity

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Are you willing to give and be poured out until you are used up and exhausted-not seeking to be ministered to, but to minister?

  Oswald Chambers

  Giving, Exhausted, Used

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.90, Discovery House

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• He who must expend his life to prolong life cannot enjoy it, and he who is still seeking for his life does not have it and can as little enjoy it.

  Max Stirner

  Doe, Littles, Long Life

  Max Stirner (2012). “The Ego and His Own: The Case of the Individual Against Authority”, p.321, Courier Corporation

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• One thing is certain, whatever choices we make: we will not miss out on some critical purgation by seeking treatment for depression or any other form of physical suffering. If we are ripe for what the dark night brings, God will find a way to bring the process to fruition no matter how hard we try to avoid it.

  Tim Farrington

  Dark, Night, Missing

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• I think you may judge of a man’s character by the persons whose affection he seeks. If you find a man seeking only the affection of those who are great, depend upon it he is ambitious and self-seeking; but when you observe that a man seeks the affection of those who can do nothing for him, but for whom he must do everything, you know that he is not seeking himself, but that pure benevolence sways his heart.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heart, Character, Men

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• Know that God has a plan for your life. Turn your life over to him every day. Stop looking outside yourself for validation and approval-you're letting other people define your happiness. Instead of trying so hard to manipulate life, take care of yourself on the inside. Then all those other attributes you're so desperately seeking will find you eventually.

  Trisha

  Validation, People, Trying

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• I would not say I am looking for God. Or, I am not looking for God precisely. I am not seeking the God I learned about as a Catholic child, as an 18-year-old novice in a religious community, as an agnostic graduate student, as - but who cares about my disguises? Or God's.

  Mary Rose O'Reilley

  Religious, Children, Years

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• A birth we embark on a good journey, seeking a destination of happiness. The journeys on our life-road facilitate development of our emotional, mental, physical and spiritual states-of-being, into a way of true power and wisdom. The Heart-center power, expressed as happiness and love, will guide us upward on a path away from frustration, bitter toil and travail. These journeys are directed inward, not outwardly in material mementos of ego and possession. The lesson is relearning that which has been suppressed and forgotten, in ourselves, since our earliest childhood.

  R. Carlos Nakai

  Spiritual, Heart, Emotional

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• Seeking - really seeking - is more than just reading a few verses from the Bible in the morning and trying to be a good person that day. Seeking requires me to sacrifice the things I feel compelled to chase so I can be available to notice God’s clear direction. Whatever we chase, like it or not, gains our full attention. Dear Lord, forgive me for all the times I’ve rushed by Your gifts and overlooked Your blessings. Today, I want to pause and really seek You with all I’ve got. I love You, Lord. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Morning, Jesus, Reading

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