#seeking

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#economic #else #go #our #political

Saul tapped his wife's obstinate chin. "Mrs. Benedict, you certainly are. You promised to obey." "That was thirty years ago! Before the wedding ceremony caught up with the modern age." "Well, I for one am holding you to that. Gondola for two, in the moonlight, with champagne and roses. ↗

— Joss Stirling

#crystal #gondola #karla #saul #seeking-crystal

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds -- justifications, confirmations, forms of consolation without which they can't go on. To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner. ↗

— Anne Rice

#courage #daring #knowledge #questions #risk

Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding. ↗

— Langston Hughes

#poetry #seeking #walt-whitman #equality

As long as there are ways we can serve, then we have a job to do. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#service #unemployment #work #forgiveness

Our prayer is not simply, ‘Dear God, please send me a better job,’ but, ‘Dear God, enable me to see this situation differently, that this area of apparent lack might be healed inside my mind. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#inspirational #job-seeking #unemployment #forgiveness

Life is very short... but I would like to live four times and if I could, I would set out to do no other things than I am seeking now to do. ↗

— William Merritt Chase

#could #four #i #i am #if i could

Inspiration is not the thing which can be seek, its right within you. ↗

— Ujas Soni

#inspiration #right #seeking #self #thing

Stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight. ↗

— Gordon B. Hinckley

#problem-seeking #life

Those mortals who operate in the grey area between conviction and incredulity are in a position to choose most meaningfully, and with most meaningful consequences […] Perhaps only a doubter can appreciate the miracle of life without end. ↗

— Terryl L. Givens

#doubt #grey-areas #seeking #life