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seeking Quotes

18 of the best book quotes about seeking
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“No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.”
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“We need not fear that in seeking God only we may narrow our lives or restrict the motions of our expanding hearts.”
03
“Seek and see all the marvels around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else. - Don Juan”
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“Seek the goodness, become the goodness.”
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“No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty.”
06
“He sought his former accustomed fear of death and did not find it. ‘Where is it? What death?’ There was no fear because there was no death. In place of death there was light.”
07
“He had never met anyone like her before. He sought her jauntily but earnestly to send him away; he didn’t want to fall in love. He wasn’t coming to see her any more--already she had haunted too many of his ways.”
08
“There a painless death awaits him who can no longer bear the sorrows of this life. If death is welcome let him seek it there.”
09
“Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.”
10
“There in the holy mill of murder the meanest of men may seek and find that part of himself, concealed beneath the corrupt, which shines forth brilliant and virtuous, worthy of honor before the gods. Do not despise war, my young friend, nor delude yourself that mercy and compassion are virtues superior to andreia, to manly valor.”
11
“It is their segnall for old Champelysied to seek the shades of his retirement and for young Chappielassies to tear a round and tease their partners lovesoftfun at Finnegan’s Wake.”
12
“Shelter, as in shelter from the stormy blast. It’s what they’re all seeking. The street people. What they crave. If they can only find shelter everything will be fine.”
13
“But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone.”
14
“She set out to seek her fortune, with no companion but her trusty cat- and found a city with streets paved in gold.”
15
“Seek in reading and you will find in meditation; knock in prayer and it will be opened to you in contemplation.”
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“By trying to please everyone, Nice Guys often end up pleasing no one — including themselves. Seeking”
17
‘A snowman becomes mobile, and in his wanderings decides to seek a place where he can live and never melt.”
18
“He will doubtless seek other means of satiating his dark passion.”
Source: Chapter 17, Paragraph 42
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