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• The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.

  James Oppenheim

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  James Oppenheim (1916). “War and Laughter”

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• Don't be someone that searches, finds and then runs away.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Running, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 03, 2014

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• Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.

  Masaru Ibuka

  Creativity, Entrepreneur, Experience

  "The Corporate Board", Vol. 13, published by Vanguard Publications, p. 30, 1992.

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• Adversity is the source of our deepest growth and greatest blessings; embrace it, dare to seek it.

  Aron Ralston

  Inspirational, Adversity, Greatness

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• Real kindness seeks no return.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Kindness, Real, Words Of Wisdom

  "Tirukkural" by Thiruvalluvar, (Verse XXII.1), 1840.

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• Liberalism is the party of upstarts who have insinuated themselves between the people and its big men. Liberals feel themselves as isolated individuals, responsible to nobody. They do not share the nation’s traditions, they are indifferent to its past and have no ambition for its future. They seek only their own personal advantage in the present. Their dream is the great International, in which the differences of peoples and languages, races and cultures will be obliterated.

  Arthur Moeller van den Bruck

  Dream, Party, Future

  Arthur Moeller Van Den Bruck (2012). “Germany's Third Empire”, p.82, Arktos

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• People should wake up in the morning and say 'I am not a job seeker, I am a job-creator.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Morning, Jobs, Work

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Yunus from Dec 05, 2012

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• If you seek answers you won't find them, but if you seek God, the answers will find you.

  Mark Batterson

  God, Christian, Religious

  Mark Batterson (2016). “The Circle Maker: Praying Circles Around Your Biggest Dreams and Greatest Fears”, p.36, Zondervan

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• Love does not come to those who seek it, but to those who give love. It is a binding force between souls who have nothing to give but themselves to one another.

  Harold Klemp

  Love, Marriage, Giving

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• We cannot expect in the immediate future that all women who seek it will achieve full equality of opportunity. But if women are tostart moving towards that goal, we must believe in ourselves or no one else will believe in us; we must match our aspirations with the competence, courage and determination to succeed.

  Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

  Motivational, Moving On, Success

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• Seek out people to work with who are brimming with talent, energy, integrity, optimism, and generosity.

  Martha Stewart

  Business, Integrity, Work

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• Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

  Timothy Leary

  Funny, Hilarious, Girly

  "Third and Possibly the Best 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said". Book by Robert Byrne, No. 40, 1986.

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  Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Patriotic, Equality, Differences

  "Discours prononcé à l'assemblée constituante le 12 Septembre 1848 sur la question du droit au travail". Oeuvres complètes, Volume IX, p. 546, 1866.

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• The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

  Eudora Welty

  Positive, Happiness, Morning

  Eudora Welty (1982). “The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty”, p.181, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For he that diligently seeketh shall find; and the mysteries of God shall be unfolded unto them, by the power of the Holy Ghost, as well in these times as in times of old as in times to come; wherefore, the course of the Lord is one eternal round" - 1 Nephi 10:19

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Inspirational, God, Christian

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• Some mathematician said that pleasure lies not in discovering the truth but in searching for it.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Truth, Lying, Discovery

  "Anna Karenina".

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• To explain new phenomena, that is my task; and how happy is the scientist when he finds what he so diligently sought, a pleasure that gladdens the heart.

  Carl Wilhelm Scheele

  Happy, Heart, Science

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• We go to sanctuaries to remember the things we hold most dear, the things we cherish and love. And then-the great challenge-we return home seeking to enact this wisdom as best we can in our daily lives.

  William Cronon

  Home, Challenges, And Love

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• Stop the mental chatter about what's wrong and what's not complete. There is a presence of Love that is seeking to express itself through you.

  Michael Beckwith

  Inspirational, Presence Of Love, Chatter

  FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Dec 20, 2012

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• In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each
  is serving the others, seeking one another's good,
  and bearing one another's burdens.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Family, Ratios, Burden

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Pilgrims are persons in motion passing through territories not their own, seeking something we might call completion, or perhaps the word clarity will do as well, a goal to which only the spirit's compass points the way.

  H. Richard Niebuhr

  Wise, Goal, Territory

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• Holiness is nothing else but the habitual and predominant devotion and dedication of soul, and body, and life, and all that we have to God; and esteeming, and loving, and serving, and seeking Him, before all the pleasures and prosperity of the flesh.

  Richard Baxter

  Dedication, Soul And Body, Holiness

  Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The practical works of the Rev. Richard Baxter: with a life of the author, and a critical examination of his writings”, p.19

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• I wait for good opportunities to come up to do stuff; I'm not seeking things. I'm quite busy in the meantime, but if the right thing came up, I would be happy to do it.

  Michael J. Fox

  Opportunity, Waiting, Would Be

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• We believe deep down that we've lost something precious and are seeking it outside ourselves, never realizing that we are carrying it within us wherever we go.

  Tsoknyi Rinpoche

  Believe, Realizing, Lost

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• When it comes to satisfying our spiritual appetites, there is no such thing as excess. There are no restraints placed on us by God. There are no rules of temperance or laws requiring moderation or boundaries beyond which we cannot go in seeking to enjoy Him. We need never pause to inquire whether we've crossed a line or become overindulgent. You need never fear feeling too good about God.

  Sam Storms

  Spiritual, Law, Feelings

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