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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as...

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Quote by St. Francis Of Assisi about love

To seek the highest good is to live well.

To seek the highest good is to live well.

Quote by Augustin de Hipona about good, good luck

The greatest danger we face may be from illiberals like Reich who seek ways to de-legitimize and disenfranchise (rather than engage) ideas with which they disagree.

Quote by Maggie Gallagher about danger, face

Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better...

Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.

Quote by Mikhail Gorbachev about life

I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer...

Quote by Gerald R. Ford about country, world

The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about fight, conflict, order, peace, world

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about waste, knowledge, happiness, nature, human imperfections, life

He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will...

He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.

Quote by Franz Kafka

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about people, heart, god

As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal.

Quote by Ivan Pavlov about revelation, lie

Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.

Quote by M. Scott Peck about power

Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must...

Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about poetry, literary critic, emotions, poets

Man through his essence is a dual being of Good and Evil that are a part of man’s self that he can never chase away from him, because if he tries to chase away Evil to keep only Good, Man becomes an alien to himself, transforming the Good he leans...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about man, self-control, perfection, being, normality, good, good luck, determination, morality, beginning

Even though I have not loved from the beginning this wonderful soul, even though I have long disappointed and tortured it with my apparent instability, I have come to understand that when you do not seek you will find and when you do not love from...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about love, beginning, contentment, soul, life

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small...

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

Quote by Arnold Schwarzenegger about idea, future

Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for...

Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.

Quote by Marsilio Ficino about art, artists, nothing, love

You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, ...

You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not.

Quote by Marsilio Ficino about friendship, need, mind, contentment

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who...

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Quote by Gustave Flaubert about art, artists, perfection

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.

Quote by Gustave Flaubert about happiness

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my...

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Quote by John Stuart Mill about wish, happiness

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