#seeking

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions. ↗

— William Osler

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After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and grief. I was born to see. ↗

— Joy Page

#born #ecstasy #eternity #filled #finding

Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy. ↗

— Camille Paglia

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The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so. ↗

— Plato

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Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in which every human inquiry is grist to the theological mill. Obviously, no theologian can know everything. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

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My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#food #good #good food #into #lot

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods. ↗

— Denis Waitley

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Today, we realize there are those actively seeking to harm us, to destroy our infrastructure and take lives. ↗

— Dave Reichert

#destroy #harm #infrastructure #lives #our

Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing. ↗

— Sonny Rollins

#comfortable #comfortable life #go #jazz #life

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within. ↗

— Saint Augustine

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