Search is defined as to look somewhere carefully in order to find something. May these quotes inspire you on your journey to a greater life.
1. “Ask and it will be given to you; search and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.” Anonymous
2. “We spend our whole lives searching for all the things we think we want, never really knowing what we have.” Anonymous
3. “Sometimes what you’re looking for comes when you’re not looking at all.” Anonymous
4. “He who would search for the pearls must dive below.” John Dryden
5. “A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” George A. Moore
6. “The search of reason ends at the shore of the known.” Abraham Joshua Heschel
7. “Never search for your happiness in others, it will make you feel alone. Search it in yourself, you will feel happy even when you are left alone.” Anonymous
8. “Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.” Rumi
9. “If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.” Pearl S. Buck
10. “If you haven’t found it, keep looking.” Steve Jobs
11. “Man – a being in search of meaning.” Plato
12. “The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of happiness.” Eric Hoffer
13. “Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.” Paulo Coelho
14. “Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.” Epicurus
15. “The noblest search is the search for excellence.” Lyndon B. Johnson
16. “If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures.” Christina Aguilera
17. “The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.” Eric Fromm
18. “I have respect for what other people believe. What I believe in my own life is that it’s a search for how I can do things better, whether it’s being a better man or a better father or finding ways for myself to improve.” Tom Cruise
19. “We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.” Marcus Tullius Cicero
20. “You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.” Buddha
21. “Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.” R. Buckminster Fuller
22. “Religion is the search for ultimate meaning.” Viktor E. Frankl
23. “Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.” Aeschylus
24. “You need not search for the compassionate mind from outside.” Lobsang Tenzin
25. “Consciously or not, we are all on a quest for answers, trying to learn the lessons of life. We grapple with fear and guilt. We search for meaning, love, and power. We try to understand fear, loss, and time. We seek to discover who we are and how we can become truly happy.” Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
26. “The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.” Arthur Schopenhauer
27. “If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.” John Templeton
28. “For me, the martial arts is a search for something inside. It’s not just a physical discipline.” Brandon Lee
29. “The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world, and the most dangerous.” James Clavell
30. “You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search.” Maxwell Maltz
31. “I long to journey endlessly, always in search of something new. Always alert.” Enrique Vila-Matas
32. “Let the search into the unknown intensify for you so that you awaken the greatness within.” ATGW
33. “Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice, and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom, and reason.” Friedrich Durrenmatt
34. “Search for beauty without features, something deeper than any signs.” Francesca da Rimini
35. “Search within you to find the answers that you seek.” ATGW
