Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"What you are seeking is also seeking you."
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Seeking
80 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile"
Meister Eckhart
Theologian, Philosopher
"If we seek God for our own good and profit, we are not seeking God."
Sigmund Freud
Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
"It is not attention that the child is seeking, but love."
Khalil Gibran
Poet, Writer
"Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him."
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"To come upon love without seeking it is the only way to find it."
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"I believe that we cannot live better than in seeking to become better, nor more agreeably than having a clear conscience."
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"I am ready for love but I'm not desperately seeking it."
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"Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know."
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"If we are not totally blind, what we are seeking is already here. This is it."
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"Humility consists in not esteeming ourselves above other men, and in not seeking to be esteemed above them."
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"What you are looking for is already in you...You already are everything you are seeking."
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"We are called to be contemplatives. ..by seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, everywhere, all the time."
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"You yourselves are the Being you are seeking."
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"What you're seeking is seeking you."
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"In the very act of my non-co-operation, I am seeking their co-operation in my campaign."
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"Whatever you're seeking-it's seeking You"
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"Walk with those seeking truth..."
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"We're all seeking...the rapture of being alive."
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"If we seek something, that same thing is seeking us."
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"We go forth all to seek America. And in the seeking we create her. In the quality of our search shall be the nature of the America that we created."
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"All the happiness, self-confidence, and support you're seeking is already within you."
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"God, have mercy on me in the blindness in which I hope I am seeking You!"
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"Wisdom lies not in possessing knowledge - which quickly becomes outdated - but in perpetually seeking it."
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"U Must Be What it is that youre Seeking - that is, U Need to Put Forth what U Want to Attract"
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