#seeking

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

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

— Gordon B. Hinckley

#problem-seeking #life

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#discovery #eyes #having #landscapes #new

What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#beginning #capacity #constantly #decreases #enjoyment

My whole life has been one of seeking experience. ↗

— Jerry Kramer

#experience #life #seeking #whole

Not only am I constantly seeking better performance but also to be a better person, to be respected. ↗

— Yani Tseng

#am #better #better person #constantly #i

It's really corny to say, but if you are happily married and have good kids, that is about 98 per cent of what you should be seeking to achieve. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#achieve #cent #corny #good #happily

Xav sprinkled olive oil on his lettuce. 'Lola was very particular that it all had to fit properly.' 'Lola?' squeaked Diamond. I wanted to warn her not to rise to the bait Xav was dangling in front of her but it was too late. Xav added some Parmesan and pepper. 'Suspicious, Diamond? You should be. This is a bachelor party I'm organizing, not a school outing, and it is going to tick all of Trace's boxes. Lola is either a very efficient water sports instructor or an exotic dancing girl; I'll leave it your imagination.' I rolled my eyes at Diamond. 'Myabe she's both. I mean the guys will really go for that, I guess. Don't worry,Di, Luigi and his crew will not disappoint us girls.' Luigi was in fact Contessa Nicoletta's little bespectacled chef with whom I had been consulting about the menu for Friday, but the Benedicts weren't to know that. 'He has promised to provide something suitably spicy for our tastes. ↗

— Joss Stirling

#crystal #funny #humour #laugh #party

Finding oneself and one's path is like waking up on a foggy day. Be patient, and presently the fog will clear and that which has always been there can be seen. The path is already there to follow ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#finding-meaning #finding-yourself #inspirational-quotes #life-direction #life-lessons-value-of-life-truth

On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled, seeking safety over the Indian border. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

#buildings #dusty #east #fallen #fled