Who seeks shall find.
The man who seeks revenge is like the man who shoots himself in order to hit his enemy with the kick of the gun's recoil.
In victory, the hero seeks the glory, not the prey.
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Whatever controls us is our lord. The person who seeks power is controlled by power. The person who seeks acceptance is controlled by acceptance. We do not control ourselves. We are controlled by the lord of our lives.
Therefore a victorious army first wins and then seeks battle; a defeated army first battles and then seeks victory.
On the face of it, it must be a bad cause which will not bear discussion. Truth seeks light instead of shunning it.
We have to be honest about the fact that not everyone who seeks to join our country will be able to successfully assimilate. Sometimes it's just not going to work out.
Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.
So an ancient once said, "Accept the anxieties and difficulties of this life". Don't expect your practice to be clear of obstacles. Without hindrances the mind that seeks enlightenment may be burnt out. So an ancient once said, "Attain deliverance in disturbances".
Unlike many graduate fellowships, the Rhodes seeks leaders who will 'fight the world's fight. ' They must be more than mere bookworms. We are looking for students who wonder, students who are reading widely, students of passion who are driven to make a difference in the lives of those around them and in the broader world.
It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.
Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control their own economic and political destinies. This approach distinguishes the movement from classic liberalism, which seeks to live in harmony with concentrated corporate power by trying to regulate excesses.
Love is the key to the mystery. Love by its very nature is not selfish, but generous. It seeks not its own, but the good of others. The measure of love is not the pleasure it gives-that is the way the world judges it-but the joy and peace it can purchase for others.
And just as the terrorist seeks to divide humanity in hate, so we have to unify it around an idea. And that idea is liberty.
We should not be ashamed to acknowledge truth from whatever source it comes to us, even if it is brought to us by former generations and foreign peoples. For him who seeks the truth there is nothing of higher value than truth itself.
Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
He who seeks, finds, and who knocks, will be let in.
Whatever the ego seeks and gets attached to are substitutes for the Being that it cannot feel.
The spirit seeks the spirit just as matter seeks matter.