In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.
All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
A young sailor boy came to see me today. It pleases me to have these lads seek me on their return from their first voyage, and tell me how much they have learned about navigation.
Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
We should seek the greatest value of our action.
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
The surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others
Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
Worry not that no one knows you; seek to be worth knowing.