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


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Seek not good from without: seek it from within yourselves, or you will never find it
EPICTETUS
After the verb "To Love"..."To Help" is the most beautiful verb in the world. -Bertha Von Suttner.
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
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, 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 and you'll find the lamp from deep within, light it up and drive away the shadows.
KēVENS
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
If we seek the truth without realizing how far we are from it, we will be dogmatists. If we realize ...
PETER KREEFT
Seek and you will find.
BIBLE
Seek respect mainly from thyself, for it comes first from within.
STEVEN H. COOGLER
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
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
'Seek' happiness and you won't find it, 'Find' happiness and you'll get it.
ANUROOP TYAGI
Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consol...
J. C. MACAULAY
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
When you seek truth, search within.
RAY MUFFLER
All what you seek is within you.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
We must always seek the truth, but expect to only find more questions. The answers must come from wi...
THELONIOUS MONK CARTER JR.
It is not easy to find something that will intrigue and bind your interest and enthusiasm. This you ...
WALTER ANNENBERG
Take heed you do not find what you do not seek.
ENGLISH PROVERB
Deliberately to pursue happinesss is not the surest way of achieving it. Seek it for its own sake an...
ROBERT J. MCCRACKEN
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
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
When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.
ABU BAKR
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
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
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
I do not seek, I find.
PABLO PICASSO
I do not seek. I find.
PABLO PICASSO
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
Happiness is not something you have to seek from people, but rather it is something that is within y...
MORAKENG SEKGOKA
When you need to be loved, you take love wherever you can find it. When you are desperate to be love...
IYANLA VANZANT
If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
EDWARD KOCH
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
Seek not to inquire what the morrow will bring with it.
UNKNOWN
I seek you like the waves seek the shore. I cannot stay, and too, I cannot stay away from you. When ...
KATE MCGAHAN
Seek happiness for others and the universe will seek happiness for you.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more lik...
BRIAN TRACY
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
Find the strength and confidence to conquer what you hide from; only then will you have the courage ...
MEAGAN ELIZABETH KEYES
If you do not have the balls to seek nothing else but the #Truth, you w'll find everything, even mes...
FAKEER ISHAVARDAS
What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Coming to Rome, much labor and little profit! The King whom you seek here, unless you bring Him with...
SOURCE UNKNOWN
Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not...
SIR FRANCIS BACON
Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not...
FRANCIS BACON
Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not...
FRANCIS BACON SR.
Try to seek for the success, never find an excuse for the failure !
KAZERONNIE MAK
There is no good or evil: only power and those too weak to seek it.
J. K. ROWLING
If you seek to know the future, do not study the stars, find a history book and open it -you will le...
DANIEL POLISENO
Do not lose hope - what you seek will be found.
NEIL GAIMAN
Ask, and it shall be given you; Seek, and ye shall find; Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
BIBLE
What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.
MARCIA WIEDER
Life is very strange. Here we miss the very thing that we crave for and cling to, and we find what w...
OSHO
But from there you will seek the Lord you God and you will find Him if you search for Him with all y...
BIBLE
If you seek my help and guidance, I will immediately give it to you.
SAI BABA
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON

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JOHANN VON GOETHE
The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnes...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult t...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking t...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
A useless life is an early death.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL
There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, and tha...
OTTO VON BISMARCK
CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table ...
OTTO VON BISMARCK
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think ...
OTTO VON BISMARCK
A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right ...
OTTO VON BISMARCK
The people who think that the power of big business is enormous are mistaken
LUDWIG VON MISES
The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you ha...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
If any man wishes to write a clear style, let him first be clear in his thoughts.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Every author in some degree portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of sol...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL
In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL
I wonder if you know yet that you’ll leave me. That you are a child playing with matches and I hav...
CLEMENTINE VON RADICS
If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that u...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerful...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reac...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
If you treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Girls we love for what they are; men for what they promise to be.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE