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• The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.

  Immanuel Kant

  Inspirational, Order, Humans

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• I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Cells, Wind, Creative

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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• While reason is still tracking down the secret, you end your quest on the open field of love.

  Sanai

  Secret, Fields, Reason

  Hakim Sanai (2013). “From The Walled Garden Of Hakim Sanai”, p.17, Katchaloo Publishing

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• It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the philosophy of non-violence.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Philosophy, Justice, Violence

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• See not perfection in self. Seek it not in others. One being a false perceptionThe other, an endless quest.

  Mary Summer Rain

  Self, Perfection, Endless

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• Life has to be in the moment, spontaneous and venerable. There isn't any winning or losing. Life itself, as it flowers in depth and subtlety, is the reward, and it isn't always an easy or fun process. We must learn to see that the issue of happiness is irrelevant. The relevant quest is the expansion of consciousness.

  Richard Moss

  Fun, Flower, Winning

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• I just want to thank Wayne for even mentioning me. I've been following his career since he started, just watching him evolve. He was always clever with the rhymes. My own quest was always to get my music out to everybody in the world and working with Wayne is truly a way to get it out there.

  Aaron Dontez Yates

  Clever, Careers, World

  "Lil Wayne meets tech N9NE...again". www.mtv.com. February 6, 2011.

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• The rationale for loving others is the recognition of the simple fact that every living being has the same right to and the same desire for happiness, and not suffering, and the consideration that you as one individual are one life unit as compared with the mulititude of others in their ceaseless quest for happiness.

  Dalai Lama

  Simple, Suffering, Desire

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• It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the philosophy of non-violence. The Negro all over the South must come to the point that he can say to his white brother: "We will match your capacity to inflict suffering with our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. We will not hate you, but we will not obey your evil laws. We will soon wear you down by pure capacity to suffer".

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Brother, Hate, Philosophy

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• In their quest for power and self-importance, to compensate for whatever feelings of social inadequacy or sexual insecurity, they (Politicians)are prepared to perpetrate something which is hard to distinguish from mass murder if they think they can get away with it.

  Auberon Waugh

  Thinking, Self, Feelings

  Auberon Waugh (1991). “Will this do?: the first fifty years of Auberon Waugh : an autobiography”, Vintage

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• These are the stories of travelers on a spiritual quest between worlds. Part mythmaker, part poet, Omar Castaeda is an original, and these stories are unlike any in our literature.

  Toi Derricotte

  Spiritual, Stories, Literature

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• The quest for the truth, in and of itself,
  Is a story that's filled with insights.

  Carolyn Porco

  Stories, Insight, Filled

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• There are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection.

  Ben Hogan

  Golf, Perfection, Shortcuts

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• The journey of the hero is about the courage to seek the depths; the image of creative rebirth; the eternal cycle of change within us; the uncanny discovery that the seeker is the mystery which the seeker seeks to know. The hero journey is a symbol that binds, in the original sense of the word, two distant ideas, the spiritual quest of the ancients with the modern search for identity, “always the one, shape-shifting yet marvelously constant story that we find.

  Phil Cousineau

  Spiritual, Hero, Journey

  Joseph Campbell, Phil Cousineau, Stuart L. Brown (1990). “The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, p.19, New World Library

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• Competition is about passion for perfection, and passion for other people who join in this impossible quest.

  Mariah Nelson

  Passion, People, Perfection

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• Your quest is for darkness only. This sea is not your sea. The myths of men are not your myths. Men's treasures are not yours.

  Anne Rice

  Men, Sea, Darkness

  Anne Rice (2010). “Interview with the Vampire”, p.156, Ballantine Books

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• So I think the Guru can be a delusion. But everything can be deluding. The thing central about the Guru in the West is that he represents an alien principle of the spirit, namely, that you don't follow your own path; you follow a given path. And that's totaly contrary to the Western Spirit! Our spirituality is of the individual quest, individual realization- authenticity in your life out of your own center. So you must take the message of the East, assimilate it to your own dimension and to your own thrust of life, and not get pulled off track.

  Joseph Campbell

  Thinking, Track, Realization

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• The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty and both - precision and certainty are impossible to attain.

  Karl Popper

  Impossible, Precision, Certainty

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• Love is the most durable power in the world. This creative force is the most potent instrument available in mankind's quest for peace and security.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love Is, Creative, World

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.54, Beacon Press

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• Finding truth involves some kind of activity. As I like to point out, truth isn't handed to you on a platter. It's not something that you get at a cafeteria, where they just put it on your plate. It's a search, a quest, an investigation, a continual process of looking at and looking for evidence, trying to figure out what the evidence means.

  Errol Morris

  Mean, Trying, Cafeteria

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• What keeps me going is that quest for just being able to be present and be myself. Not for people, but for me.

  Janet Mock

  People, Able, Just Being

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• Darkness is your candle.
  Your boundaries are your quest.

  Rumi

  Darkness, Boundaries, Candle

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.50, Penguin UK

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• We begin to ask questions, such as: "What is the purpose of life? What is my true nature? What is the source and origin of this entire creation?" When questions of this kind arise in a person's mind, his or her quest for knowledge begins.

  Tejomayananda

  Mind, Purpose, Kind

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• O speculators about perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you created in the like quest? Go and take your place with the seekers after gold.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Gold, Vain, Chimera

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1906). “Note Books: Arranged and Rendered Into English, with Introd”

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• We stand today at a unique and extraordinary moment. The crisis in the Persian Gulf , as grave as it is, also offers a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective - a new world order - can emerge: a new era - freer from the threat of terror, stronger in the pursuit of justice, and more secure in the quest for peace. An era in which the nations of the world, East and West, North and South, can prosper and live in harmony.

  George H. W. Bush

  Moving, Unique, Opportunity

  George H. W. Bush, Brent Scowcroft (2011). “A World Transformed”, p.370, Vintage

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