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• Humility consists in not esteeming ourselves above other men, and in not seeking to be esteemed above them.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Humility, Men

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.380, Catholic Way Publishing

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• O my God, teach me to be generous
  to serve you as you deserve to be served
  to give without counting the cost
  to fight without fear of being wounded
  to work without seeking rest
  and to spend myself without expecting any reward
  but the knowledge that I am doing your holy will.
  Amen

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Fighting, Giving, Cost

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• When spiritual seeking becomes too complicated, its exercies too elaborated, its doctrines too esoteric, it becomes also too artificial and the resulting achievements too fabricated. It is the beginners and intermediates who carry this heavy and unnecessary burden, who involve themselves to the point of becoming neurotics.

  Paul Brunton

  Spiritual, Achievement, Beginners

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• If you investigate the matter deeply enough and widely enough, you will find that happiness eludes nearly all men despite the fact that they are forever seeking it. The fortunate and successful few are those who have stopped seeking with the ego alone and allow the search to be directed inwardly by the higher self. They alone can find a happiness unblemished by defects or deficiencies, a Supreme Good which is not a further source of pain and sorrow but an endless source of satisfaction and peace.

  Paul Brunton

  Pain, Successful, Men

  Paul Brunton (1984). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Perspectives (posthumous)”

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• Despite their tremendous talent, (NBA players) are still, by and large, young adults, seeking validation from an authority figure, and there is no greater authority figure on a team than the coach. Needless to say, in today's warped, self-indulgent climate, too many players couldn't care less about appeasing the coach.

  Phil Jackson

  Team, Player, Nba

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• Jacopo Belbo didnt understand that he had had his moment and that it would have to be enough for him, for all his life. Not recognizing it, he spent the rest of his days seeking something else, until he damned himself.

  Umberto Eco

  Moments, Enough, Recognizing

  Umberto Eco (1997). “Foucault's Pendulum”

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• Today, something is happening to the whole structure of human consciousness. A fresh kind of life is starting. Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world are seeking each other, so that the world may come into being.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Climate, World, May

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• By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.

  Edvard Munch

  Color, Doe, Lines

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• If you're sincerely seeking God, God will make His existence evident to you.

  William Lane Craig

  Existence, Gods Will, Seeking God

  William Lane Craig, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (2003). “God?: A Debate between a Christian and an Atheist”, p.28, Oxford University Press

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• The passion for seeking the truth for truth's sake can be kept alive only if we continue to seek the truth for truth's sake.

  Franz Boas

  Passion, Alive, Sake

  "Race and Democratic Society". Book by Franz Boas. Introduction, 1945.

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• My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking freedom and opportunity in the New World.

  Daniel Nathans

  Opportunity, Years, Parent

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• Many of us Christians have become extremely skillful in arranging our lives so as to admit the truth of Christianity without being embarrassed by its implications. We arrange things so that we can get on well enough without divine aid, while at the same time ostensibly seeking it. We boast in the Lord but watch carefully that we never get caught depending on Him.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Watches, Lord

  "The Root of the Righteous". Book by Aiden Wilson Tozer, p. 39, 1955.

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• Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest; it never ceases.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Mindfulness, States, Endless

  Sharon Salzberg (2008). “Lovingkindness”, p.66, Shambhala Publications

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• Percentage margins are not one of the things we are seeking to optimize. It’s the absolute dollar free cash flow per share that you want to maximize, and if you can do that by lowering margins, we would do that.  So if you could take the free cash flow, that’s something that investors can spend. Investors can’t spend percentage margins.

  Jeff Bezos

  Cash Flow, Dollars, Want

  "Jeff Bezos on Leading for the Long-Term at Amazon". "HBR IdeaCast" with Adi Ignatius, hbr.org.

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• "No" is a word that must never be negotiated, because the person who chooses not to hear it is trying to control you... Declining to hear "no" is a signal that someone is either seeking control or refusing to relinquish it.

  Gavin de Becker

  Choices, Abuse, Trying

  Gavin De Becker (1998). “The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence”, Dell Publishing Company

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• The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought to have spent in solitude and meditation, in endeavoring to make myself worthy of being loved.

  Theophile Gautier

  Patience, Years, Meditation

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• If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Light, Goes On, Action

  Maharshi Ramana, Swami Saraswati Ramananda (1963). “Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi”

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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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• The suicide arrives at the conclusion that what he is seeking does not exist; the seeker concludes that what he has not yet looked in the right place

  Paul Watzlawick

  Suicide, Doe, Conclusion

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• The simplest type of breakdown exhibits itself as an oscillation in a goal-seeking process which appears only when that process is actively invoked.

  Norbert Wiener

  Goal, Process, Type

  Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.163, Da Capo Press

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• I think leadership is knowing what you want to achieve and then purposefully and sensibly taking steps to achieve it, remembering always that you have got to bring people with you if you are seeking to be a successful political leader.

  Tony Abbott

  Successful, Thinking, Knowing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The challenge we now face is to build on the record of the past, to continue accepting new responsibilities and seeking new opportunities to serve.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Responsibility, Past, Opportunity

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• A detective with his murder mystery, a chemist seeking the structure of a new compound, use little of the formal and logical modes of reasoning. Through a series of intuitions, surmises, fancies, they stumble upon the right explanation, and have a knack of seizing it when it once comes within reach.

  Gilbert N. Lewis

  Murder Mysteries, Intuition, Littles

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• Is it impossible to imagine Americans sneaking into Mexico en masse, seeking regular employment and a better way of life?

  Bill Hicks

  Employment, Mexico, Way

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