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«I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness?»
«Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be.»
«If you have, give; if you lack, seek»
Author: Malayan Proverb | Keywords: give, lack, seek
«If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy»
«I am not concerned that I have no place, I am concerned how I may fit myself for one, I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known»
Author: Confucius | Keywords: concerned, fit, fitter, for one, known, seek, worthy
«I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.»
«Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet.»
«It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision to which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible.»
«It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want.»
«How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.»