#seek

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s. ↗

— William Blake

#cause #distress #elsewhere #endure #fortitude

The best people to listen to are those who have already been successful accomplishing exactly what you are seeking to accomplish. ↗

— Brian Koslow

#accomplishing #already #been #best #exactly

Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before! ↗

— John Dryden

#busy #busy person #concealed #fate #find

So I constantly play women who are damaged and out of touch, who are seeking without knowing, or knowing without the skills to transform their lives. But then, that's really the fate of many women today. ↗

— Olympia Dukakis

#damaged #fate #i #knowing #lives

Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#education #enable #find #learning #might

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

— Allan Bloom

#man #potential #real #seek #those

The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#interesting #novel #out #seeks #sublime

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

— Epictetus

#dishonorable #find #invincible #means #seek

People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#deluded #longing #people #seeking #something

The aggressive, unprovoked acts of violence against Israel by Hezbollah and Hamas are revealing. It is clear they don't want peace, but rather seek the ultimate destruction of Israel. ↗

— John Boehner

#against #aggressive #clear #destruction #hamas