#seeking

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

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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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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

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

— Sonny Rollins

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My dad is a bank president and my mom was an accountant and they didn't think that seeking the life of a freelance writer was very practical, you see. Of course, I was just as determined to do it. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

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