#searching

I did things I did not understand for reasons I could not begin to explain just to be in motion, to be trying to do something, change something in a world I wanted desperately to make over but could not imagine for myself. ↗

— Dorothy Allison

#searching #business

Alike Jean-Baptiste Grenouille... she's in the eternal search, but not for "perfect scent" but the "perfect love" she drinks from deep inside their souls she feeds her heart with feelings and emotions, warm ... empthy ... she is in search for more... ↗

— Inna Rosca

#love

Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#doing #none #outlining #people #planning

Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members. ↗

— Malcolm Fraser

#family members #indigenous #indigenous people #members #people

Time spent researching varies from book to book. Some novels require months, even years of research, others very little. I try to do most of my research before I begin but inevitably questions emerge during the writing. ↗

— Jonathan Kellerman

#begin #book #during #emerge #even

I am a pisces, a fish out of water, searching for a way back home. ↗

— James Kidd

#about #destiny #etc #fish #james

For many, the search for Jesus is initiated from experiencing an event in life so powerful, it awakens the dragons of faith; from pain so deep, it calls on the hidden fears of the soul in an effort to survive. For others it means a serious personal life survey that ultimately forces the confrontation with the futility, anesthetics, and despair in their lives. ↗

— W. Scott Lineberry

#faith #fear #futility #healing #religion

Oh, gentlemen, perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything. Granted, granted I'm a babbler, a harmless, irksome babbler, as we all are. But what's to be done if the sole and express purpose of every intelligent man is babble--that is, a deliberate pouring from empty into void. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#meaning-of-life #philosophical-musings #searching #thinking #intelligence

When he looks back at me, his eyes travel around my face the way fingers dart through the bottom of a drawer, searching for batteries in a blackout. ↗

— Holly Schindler

#searching #transparency #love

I’m at a crossroads. I believe I only have one chance to pick the proper direction. ↗

— Destin Bays

#searching-for-truth #true-love-in-time #love