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Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.
Viktor E. Frankl
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The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
Immanuel Kant
The utmost human pursuit is to discover what one must do in order to become a true person.
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Each person is oriented toward a quest for his personal invisible guide, or . . . he entrusts himself to the collective, magisterial authority as the intermediary between himself and Revelation.
Ibn Arabi
Each individual is driven to find his own spiritual mentor, or . . . he submits to collective, authoritative guidance as the go-between for him and Divine Guidance.
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The quest for Love changes us. There is no seeker among those who search for Love who has not matured on the way. The moment you start looking for Love, you start to change within and without.
Shams Tabrizi
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I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.
Kailash Satyarthi
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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
Viktor E. Frankl
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Do not undertake a scientific career in quest of fame or money. There are easier and better ways to reach them. Undertake it only if nothing else will satisfy you; for nothing else is probably what you will receive. Your reward will be the widening of the horizon as you climb. And if you achieve that reward you will ask no other.
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
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Ability is important in our quest for success, but dependability is critical.
Zig Ziglar
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To begin is the most important part of any quest and by far the most courageous.
Plato
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What keeps me going is that quest for just being able to be present and be myself. Not for people, but for me.
Janet Mock
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A Tribe Called Quest music was so inclusive, so conscious, it brought such a community together.
Michael Rapaport
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Our demons are our own limitations, which shut us off from the realization of the ubiquity of the spirit . . . each of these demons is conquered in a vision quest.
Joseph Campbell
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The quest for truth must be carried out by each person individually. It is like breathing, something which no one else can do for us.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
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It is best not to go on for great quest for truth ,
it will only make you miserable
Rene Descartes
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I liked the Beastie Boys and A Tribe Called Quest and Cypress Hill.
Rose Byrne
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There are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection.
Ben Hogan
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In her glamorous quest for the darkest light and the lowest high, she now found herself wallowing on the bottom of a filthy garbage bin.
Terri Blackstock
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Amid life's quests, there seems but worthy one: to do men good.
Gamaliel Bailey
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While reason is still tracking down the secret, you end your quest on the open field of love.
Sanai
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I'm living my life as a journey. My quest is to make it better every year.
Cameron Diaz
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Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?
Rumi
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The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
Joseph Campbell
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Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.
Julia Cameron
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Most of us do not even know how to ask a question. Most of us do not see the root of the word 'question' is 'quest'. Most of us don't have a quest in our life.
Richard Saul Wurman
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No matter where we begin, if we pursue knowledge diligently and honestly, our quest will inevitably lead us from the things of the earth to the things of heaven.
Hugh Nibley
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Always remember, joy is not incidental to spiritual quest. It is vital.
Nachman of Breslov
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Always engage in the quest for life's meaning, which is inner peace.
Longchenpa
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Mankind is engaged in an eternal quest for that ‘something else' he hopes will bring him happiness, complete and unending.For those individual souls who have sought and found God, the search is over: He is that Something Else.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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The quest for slowness, which begins as a simple rebellion against the impoverishment of taste in our lives, makes it possible to rediscover taste.
Carlo Petrini
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Meaning is found not in the rewards, for they are only tokens. Seek not to have the gold medal. Instead, seek to be the person who can win the gold medal. It is in the quest that you'll find the fulfillment which the reward represents.
Ralph Marston
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Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.
Bill Bryson
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The Quest not only begins in the heart but also ends there.
Paul Brunton
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Our quest for a Digital India is all encompassing. It is going to touch your lives in several ways, making it easier.
Narendra Modi
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In the word question, there is a beautiful word - quest. I love that word.
Elie Wiesel
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When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.
Ezra Taft Benson
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I was to discover that the quest for human understanding is a lifetime one that has no end in sight.
Margaret Bourke-White
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The quest for God is the quest for true happiness.
Harold Klemp
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Love of learning will never let you down. You can have a quest for money, you can have a quest for power, you can have a quest for fame and they are sometimes gratifying and sometimes self-destructive. The love of learning is always gratifying and never self-destructive. The more educated, the more cultivated a society becomes, better off is everybody.
David McCullough
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At various points in our lives, or on a quest, and for reasons that often remain obscure, we are driven to make decisions which prove with hindsight to be loaded with meaning. (225)
Swami Satchidananda
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I can't stand satisfaction. To me, greatness comes from that quest for perfection.
Mike Schmidt
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The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.
William J. Brennan
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See not perfection in self. Seek it not in others. One being a false perceptionThe other, an endless quest.
Mary Summer Rain
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In God there is no duality. In that Presence "I" and "we" and "you" do not exist. "I" and "you" and "we" and "He" become one.... Since in the Unity there is no distinction, the Quest and the Way and the Seeker become one.
Mahmud Shabistari
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What is the right of the huntsman to the forest of a thousand miles over which he has accidentally ranged in quest of prey? Shall the fields and vallies, which a beneficent God has formed to teem with the life of innumerable multitudes, be condemned to everlasting barrenness?
John Quincy Adams
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To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions.
Sam Keen
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No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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Just as in nature systems of order govern the growth and structure of animate and inanimate matter, so human activity itself has, since the earliest times, been distinguished by the quest for order.
Josef Muller-Brockmann
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The worst danger of the mystic is as always a quest of spiritual privilege leading to aloofness from the common lot.
Vida Dutton Scudder
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The quest for peace is the statesman's most exacting duty... Practical progress to lasting peace is his fondest hope.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Its all about finding the right note at the right place and knowing when to leave well enough alone. And that's a lifelong quest.
David Sanborn