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Seek not good from without: seek it from within yourselves, or you will never find it


Epictetus

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Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.
BERTHA VON SUTTNER Peace comes from within.  Do not seek it without.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
BUDDHA Happiness springs up from within. Do not seek it without.
OGWO DAVID EMENIKE If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you diff...
FO-YAN If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you dif...
FO-YAN Seek respect mainly from thyself, for it comes first from within.
STEVEN H. COOGLER Seek and you'll find the lamp from deep within, light it up and drive away the shadows.
KēVENS If we seek the truth without realizing how far we are from it, we will be dogmatists. If we realize ...
PETER KREEFT Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.
HORACE MANN Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that...
RUMI Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that...
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will be...
EPICTETUS Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow ...
TRYON EDWARDS Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.
JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE We must always seek the truth, but expect to only find more questions. The answers must come from wi...
THELONIOUS MONK CARTER JR. Seek and you will find.
BIBLE Take a break of that which you enjoy and what you don't enjoy leave it.
DEYTH BANGER When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.
ABU BAKR It is written, 'seek, and ye shall find'. But first, 'imagine what you seek'. Otherwise, you will en...
TOBA BETA When you seek it, you cannot find it.
ZEN PROVERB Seek out wisdom and when you find her she will tell you the answers you seek.
JIM GENOVESE Don't Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happin...
ECKHART TOLLE Seek not outside you, heaven is within.
MARY LOU COOK When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD When we are unable to find tranquillity within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD If you make time for the nonsense, good or bad, it will continue to seek you out.
GARY HOPKINS Seek reality and you will find truth.
JIM GENOVESE What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.
THOMAS BROWNE All you need is deep within you waiting to unfold and reveal itself. All you have to do is be still ...
EILEEN CADDY Happiness is not something you have to seek from people, but rather it is something that is within y...
MORAKENG SEKGOKA 'Seek' happiness and you won't find it, 'Find' happiness and you'll get it.
ANUROOP TYAGI When you need to be loved, you take love wherever you can find it. When you are desperate to be love...
IYANLA VANZANT Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consol...
J. C. MACAULAY You should seek approval from yourself.
ICHIRO SUZUKI It matters not what goal you seek - Its secret here reposes: You've got to dig from week to week - ...
EDGAR GUEST It matters not what goal you seek - Its secret here reposes: You've got to dig from week to week - T...
EDGAR GUEST Do not seek to find a reason why elections are not possible. Seek to make them possible, and they wi...
AHMED CHALABI A true writer does not seek wealth or fame does seek to find himself in each of his readers souls.
JULIA JOANNE BLACK Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
JESUS CHRIST Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
ANONYMOUS Find the strength and confidence to conquer what you hide from; only then will you have the courage ...
MEAGAN ELIZABETH KEYES Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely express...
ELIZABETH GILBERT When you seek truth, search within.
RAY MUFFLER All what you seek is within you.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA It is not easy to find something that will intrigue and bind your interest and enthusiasm. This you ...
WALTER ANNENBERG When you smile from within good things come to you from without. Just breathe, your music will come.
LISA FANTINO Take heed you do not find what you do not seek.
ENGLISH PROVERB If you persistently seek validation from others, you will inadvertently invalidate your own self-wor...
DODINSKY Deliberately to pursue happinesss is not the surest way of achieving it. Seek it for its own sake an...
ROBERT J. MCCRACKEN Be the help you seek from others.
ABHIJIT NASKAR The answers you seek are not the answers you find.
MARTY RUBIN It's written, 'seek and ye shall find'. But first, 'imagine what you seek'.
Otherwise, you will...
TOBA BETA I seek you like the waves seek the shore. I cannot stay, and too, I cannot stay away from you. When ...
KATE MCGAHAN One does not seek love,' she told him, 'it should find you all on it's own
BARBARA LIEBERMAN Seek to join Power, do not seek to stop power because you will fail.
FRANCIS MATHEW But from there you will seek the Lord you God and you will find Him if you search for Him with all y...
BIBLE Whoever said "seek and you shall find" obviously never had an unfaithful spouse.
PR FIRST LADY Seek the Immortal, All-blissful Soul within. You will enjoy everlasting happiness and peace.
SWAMI SIVANANDA Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their...
EILEEN CADDY Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their...
EILEEN CADDY One could come from less than humble beginnings, to become a winner from within.
DAVE PELZER First: seek within.
RICARDO ALONSO 1st: seek within.
RICARDO ALONSO When you find yourself in need of spiritual nourishment, it is in the opportunities to serve others ...
STEVE MARABOLI Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within
HELEN KELLER It ends or it doesn't.
That’s what you say. That’s
how you get through it.
The tu...
CAITLYN SIEHL If you've never had a mother or a father, you grow up seeking something you're never going t...
GLORIA VANDERBILT Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If ...
WILLIAM NICHOLSON Seek truth from facts.
DENG XIAOPING I do not seek, I find.
PABLO PICASSO I do not seek. I find.
PABLO PICASSO It is quite understandable that Puerto Ricans seek to preserve a cultural sense of identity without ...
DICK THORNBURGH All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect.
WALTER ANNENBERG Toss the purse away from yourself and most likely they will go after it, and that is when you run an...
BARRY TATE Never seek the wind in the field. It is useless to try and find what is gone.
POLISH PROVERB I believe we must seek God's will, never presuming to identify it with our own program or power.
DAVID PRICE The word "seek" is a verb. Are you treating it as such in your life? If you seek change, success, or...
STEVE MARABOLI Narrow minded people never mingle with those who seek to find answers, they rather prefer you to tak...
SAIDA HOSHI Seek the good in life and life will be good to you.
JENNI YOUNG Bible reads 'Seek and you shall find' but after Google it goes like 'Search and you shall find'.
EPHDAN You seek help from the elders. A society with elders is healthy. It's not always that way in the...
BERNARD LAGAT If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
EDWARD KOCH Pain has creative power,
Let the magic unfold...
HENNA SOHAIL Life is a simple equation. We become what we see or speak or touch. Seek forgiveness, and forgivenes...
JOHN B. BEJO If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else
MARVIN GAYE If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.
MARVIN GAYE Seek happiness for others and the universe will seek happiness you.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know ...
MARSHA SINETAR Part of what any good health-care professional does, including an advanced-practice nurse, is know w...
DAVID SHULKIN Seek not to inquire what the morrow will bring with it.
UNKNOWN Seek happiness for others and the universe will seek happiness for you.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO We will seek to buy the land — but only from willing owners. We're not going to condemn any propert...
DAVID GOAD A good policy is one that encourages students to seek mental health counseling, and does not deter s...
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