#seek

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. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#apart #danger #deeper #exercising #full

I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience. ↗

— Stephen Carter

#authors #avoid #being #black #fiction

I was never one to seek out the spotlight. I am kind of a private person, so I don't miss that part of show business at all. ↗

— Angela Cartwright

#business #i #i am #kind #miss

There are members of the London press who seek to antagonise me, deliberately. ↗

— Alex Ferguson

#london #me #members #press #seek

I will give you three days to seek your shadow. Return to me in the course of that time with a well-fitted shadow, and you shall receive a hearty welcome; otherwise, on the fourth day - remember, on the fourth day - my daughter becomes the wife of another. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

#becomes #course #daughter #day #days

The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#forever #found #ideal #made #much

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being. ↗

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#come #driven #each #forces #fragments

I tell the person I won't take a picture or sign the autograph, but I will shake their hand. That kind of personal touch is all they're really seeking. ↗

— Chevy Chase

#hand #i #kind #person #personal

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. ↗

— Cesar Chavez

#achievement #aspirations #broad #cannot #community

By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite. ↗

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

#aught #bliss #burial #closely #else