Seeking Quotes

There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done.’ All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.

Believe those who seek the truth; doubt those who find it.

What you're seeking is seeking you.

Before me now there is only one real fact -- Death. The truth I have been seeking -- this truth is Death. Yet Death is also a seeker. Forever seeking me. So -- we have met at last. And I am prepared. I am at peace. Because I will conquer death with death.

Not all those who wander are lost.

Don't Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness

When you can not find someone, it is because you've been misdirected to look elsewhere

What you are looking for is already in you...You already are everything you are seeking.

Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

Gentlemen, I am tormented by questions; answer them for me.

Constantly to seek the purpose of life is one of the odd escapes of man. If he finds what he seeks it will not be worth that pebble on the path.

We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us.

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.

When someone seeks," said Siddhartha, "then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.

I'm always interested in something that's missing.

Anyone, without exception, can know God if they really want to simply by praying, by honestly telling Him that they want to know Him. He always responds to honest seekers. Jesus promised, 'All who seek, find.'

Everything that anyone would ever look for is usually where they find it.

Seeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent: Seeking involves some luck; now the demand is for skill.

Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers. Let me keep company always with those who say “Look!” and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads. (from “Mysteries, Yes”)

Your longing for ME is my message to you, All your attempts to reach ME, Are in reality MY attempts to reach you.

We're all seeking...the rapture of being alive.

Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

In order to find, you must first search.