#seeking

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#discovery #eyes #having #landscapes #new

Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking. ↗

— Jean Racine

#found #may #nothing #out #seeking

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

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

#bank #course #dad #determined #freelance

Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends. ↗

— James Bovard

#dangerous #definition #friends #our #over

The things in my songs are the edited highlights of my life. I don't go seeking out strange sexual experiences every day of the week. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#edited #every #every day #experiences #go

I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God. ↗

— Bede Griffiths

#been #centre #existence #god #had

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 Paxton

#because #been #beyond #characteristic #economic

I have gone through a period of seeking to understand what or how strong or what are the connections I have to God. ↗

— Peter Jennings

#god #gone #how #i #period

But I'm not worried about seeking out the approval of others - that high school thing of joining the club. ↗

— Stephan Jenkins

#approval #club #high #high school #i