seek quotes

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

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Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

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Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference.

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Do not be concerned that no one recognizes you, seek that which is worthy of recognition.

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I do not seek, I find.

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The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

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People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?

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Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

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We have what we seek. It is there all the time, and if we give it time it will make itself known to us.

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The real community of man is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers.

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I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.

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Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.

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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

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The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.

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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

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Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which all human beings seek.

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We seek the truth and will endure the consequences.

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Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.

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The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

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It is not cowardly, quite the contrary, to seek to meet the adversary and know his intentions. However, it is cowardly, shameful and treasonable to lay down arms.

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Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.

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We seek no wider war.

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Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

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We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and quiet.

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The tragedy for comedians is there's nothing more they want than to be liked. We desperately seek approval. It's almost like a personality disorder you can do as a job.

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There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.

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The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.

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A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there.

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It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.

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Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man.

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Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable.

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When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.

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Seek out your bishop. He will show you how to repent and will help you do it.

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I am fascinated by what is beautiful, strong, healthy, what is living. I seek harmony.

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I have never gone out of fashion. And do you know why? Because I never sought it. When you don't seek it, it's always with you.

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

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I look back to when I got divorced in the late 1970s. When that happened, I was so broken up. After that, I decided to seek God for my life and my next marriage.

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I am very excited to be supporting one of the world's most visionary efforts to seek basic answers to some of the fundamental question about our universe and what other civilisations may exist elsewhere.

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Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being.

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Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.

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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.

Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.

While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.

Seek not for fresher founts afar, just drop you bucket where you are.

I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.

The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the Government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves.

The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.

I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

Square meals, not adventurous ones, are what you should seek.

Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.

If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.

Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

You seek help from the elders. A society with elders is healthy. It's not always that way in the West.

The fact is there is forgiveness for those who seek God. And I believe in the power of redemption.

You should seek approval from yourself.

Over the summer I thought that I would seek out non-Americans as friends, just for diversity's sake. Now I find that I want to be around Americans - people who I know are thinking about our country as much as I am.

I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.

My main calling in life is to seek and achieve spiritual balance, and to express that through my instrument. Everything else is here today, gone later today.

I seek no longer to be a 'famous' person, and instead I wish to live a 'normal' life.

If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

This point seems counter-intuitive, given the amount of conspicuous vulgarity, vice, and immorality in America. Indeed some Islamic fundamentalists argue that their regimes are morally superior to the United States because they seek to foster virtue among the citizens.

The basic problem with my love relationships with women is that my standards are so high - and they apply equally to both of us. I seek full-blast mutual intensity, fully fledged mutual acceptance, full-blown mutual flourishing, and fully felt peace and joy with each other. This requires a level of physical attraction, personal adoration, and moral admiration that is hard to find.

To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named.

Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.

My aim was never to seek a force and take power.

But things such as 'Harry Potter', all I can do is shape my character, seek the director's approval on that, and basically take it from there. Professor Flitwick in 'Harry Potter', I kind of defined how I saw him from reading the book, and luckily that matched up with the director's vision.

You never really forget who you are. If you did, you'd need to seek some professional help.

I'm pretty Sicilian if I've been crossed. I don't seek revenge, but I never forget. And I make it hard to repair, which is not a great quality because if people held me to that standard, no one would be around me - ever.

Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people, that we have a responsibility to find our common ground, to seek it and to find it.

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

For the baby boomer generation, a home is now seen not as the cornerstone of advancement but a ball and chain, restricting their ability and their mobility to move and seek out a job at another location.

Here's a little newsflash for those reporters and commentators: I'm not going to Washington to seek their good opinion. I'm going to Washington to serve this great country.

I like stories that are not normal, everyday lives. I don't personally seek them out, but they find me.

Do not seek to find a reason why elections are not possible. Seek to make them possible, and they will be possible.

All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.

Do not seek for information of which you cannot make use.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless.

For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I will not understand.