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Letter "S" » seeking
«Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.»
Author: Andre Gide
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seeking
«I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness?»
«The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer -- they think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.»
«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.»
«In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.»
«Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.»
«I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.»
Author: Havelock Ellis
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Angel, fallen, fallen angel, fight back, musicians, perpetually, Satan, seeking, the darkness, vague
«Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.»
«I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.»
Author: Joseph Campbell
(Author, Editor, Philosopher, Teacher)
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experiences, innermost, plane, planing, purely, rapture, raptures, resonances, seeking, The Rapture
«If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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Pain
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Avoiding, calling together, Call of, elementary, individuals, insecurities, insecurity, instincts, misery, promiscuous, satisfaction, seeking, selves, surrender, The Call
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