(561 quotes found)
“I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness…”
Dalai Lama
“Seeking means to have a goal; but finding means to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose.”
Hermann Hesse
“By seeking and blundering we learn.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“When you seek it, you cannot find it.”
Zen Proverb
“Who seeks shall find.”
Sophocles
“Seek advice but use your own common sense”
Yiddish Proverb
“Seek a wife in your own sphere”
Latin Proverb
“Ask, and it shall be given you; seek; and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. [Matthew 7:7-8].”
Bible
“As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.”
William Shakespeare
“When a scholar goes to seek out a bride he should take along an ignoramus as an expert”
The Talmud
