Quotations about

Seeking

Love isn’t perfect. It’s hard work and sometimes it’s more effort to be in love than it is to just run away. If you keep looking for perfect, the real thing is going to pass right by you.

—Jay Crownover in Jet

Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.

—Jules Renard

If we’d never met, I think I would have known my life wasn’t complete. And I would have wandered the world in search of you, even if I didn’t know who I was looking for.

—Nicholas Sparks in The Longest Ride

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

—Matsuo Basho

Seek the company of those who are still seeking the truth and run away from those who think they have found it.

—J. T. O'Hara

If you have to boast about what you do for a living to attract attention, attraction or approval, then you're seeking the wrong kind of people, for it has nothing to do with who you are and everything to do with what you do. Is that the kind of people you want? The ones who are more attracted to your status than you?

—Donna Lynn Hope

I do not seek. I find.

—Pablo Picasso

If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further.

—Mahatma Gandhi

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

—Francis of Assisi

I'm not sure anyone knows what they're looking for until they find it.

—Kiera Cass in The Heir

Hello seeker! Now don't feel alone here in the New Age, because there's a seeker born every minute.

—Firesign Theatre

In constantly seeking to actualize your ideal, you will have no time for composure. But if you are always prepared for accepting everything we see as something appearing from nothing . . . then at that moment you will have perfect composure.

—Edward Weston

Getting found almost always means being lost for a while.

—Anne Lamott in Small Victories