#seeking

But, Aunt... I don't want to go to the grave site set aside for me a few years ago at the ancestral grave site. I don't want to go there. When I lived here and woke up from the fog in my head, I would walk by myself to the grave site set aside for me, so that I could feel comfortable if I lived there after death. It was sunny, and I liked the pine tree that stood bent but tall, but remaining a member of this family even in death would be too much and too hard. To try to change my mind, I would sing and pull weeds, sitting there until the sun set, but nothing made me feel comfortable there. I lived with this family for over fifty years; please let me go now. ↗

— Kyung-Sook Shin

#death #grave #let-me-go #rest-in-peace #seeking-comfort

You keep me here. You can't live in a world where you don't know where and what I am doing. We inside each others souls. ↗

— Chimnese Davids

#seeking-comfort #love

Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. ↗

— Herman Hesse

#free #goal #means #receptive #seeking

There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#patience #perseverance #seeking #truth #life

Obama, like Carter, is reacting to warning signs by seeking to split the difference between dispirited Democrats and increasingly radicalized Republicans. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#carter #democrats #difference #increasingly #like

We're all seeking order. We're all seeking control. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#order #seeking

Mr. Speaker, in seeking to return to the United Nations, the Republic of China on Taiwan will once again ask diplomatic allies to present its case before the United Nations this fall. ↗

— Nick Lampson

#allies #ask #before #case #china

Why are we in this mess, now facing the prospect of economic armageddon? It's because the prevailing characteristic has been greed, and it doesn't matter whether it's individuals living beyond their means or governments living beyond their means or people seeking to get rich quick. ↗

— Jeremy Paxman

#because #been #beyond #characteristic #economic

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

— Plato

#being #content #most #seeking #themselves

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#eyes #having #landscapes #new #new eyes