237 Quotes About Searching

What we’re searching for will determine where we arrive, or if we arrive. And right in the middle of such risky choices, Christmas is God perfectly solving the problem by showing us what to search for and then bringing it to us.

There would be no more offerings. Not this day. Not any day. Humankind had suffered enough for its love of gods, its long search for God. He thought of the many centuries in which his people, the Jews, had negotiated with God, complaining, bickering, decrying the unfairness of things but always - always - returning to obedience at whatever the cost. Generations dying in the ovens of hatred. Future generations scarred by the cold fires of radiation and renewed hatred.

Tender Ember...Barred and brandedto be forever unlovedI was a tender emberseeking solace from above...

Don’t digfor your purpose—let it dropfrom the heavensand fall in your lap.—you can’t hunt your way to it

Don’t search for something grand, as your values might be hidden behind something that you discard as ordinary.

I see... the way you're always searching. How much you hate anything fake or phony. How you're older than your years, but still... playful, like a little girl. How you're always looking into people, or wondering what they see when they look back at you. Your eyes. It's all in the eyes.

What we search for in a work of architecture is not in the end so far from what we search for in a friend.

My mother once said, 'If you come across a man with more than one personality, you can be sure he's looking for himself in one of them, because he has no character.' But I think she was wrong

You can’t stay locked in your room and expect either you to find love or love to find you.