Mentally Ill People

“Certain sorts of the mentally ill people seek power over others as they cannot control themselves. It is a way to try to substitute regulating the world around them for self-stability by seeking to make to their own internal dysregulation seem fitting or laudable.”
--Boriqua Cato

Love Me For What I Am

“I must be myself, I cannot break myself any longer for you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to deserve that you should.”
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Eyes of a Child

“Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.”
--Ron Wild

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The Sea is Dangerous

“The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore. Unlike the mediocre, intrepid spirits seek victory over those things that seem impossible. It is with an iron will that they embark on the most daring of all endeavors, to meet the shadowy future without fear and conquer the unknown.”
--Ferdinand Magellan

Absolute Power

“Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed.”
--Barry Goldwater

Seek the Truth

“If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.”
--Marcus Aurelius

Fight Against Myself

“I seek strength, not to be stronger than my brother, but to fight against my greatest enemy, myself.”
--American Indian Proverb

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Respect Thyself

“Seek respect mainly from thyself, for it comes first from within.”
--Steven H. Coogler

Find Happiness

“Happiness is where we find it, but very rarely where we seek it.”
--J. Petit Senn

Do Not Seek Love

“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.”
--Jalal-al-Din Rumi

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Knowledge Changes Everything

“Knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.”
--Freda Adler

Good Opinion

“Is it not excessively ridiculous to seek the good opinion of those whom you would never wish to be like?”
--John Chrysostom

Ordinary Life

“Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments.”
--Anais Nin

What to Seek

“Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.”
--Mahatma Gandhi

Mental Atrophy

“There cannot be mental atrophy in any person who continues to observe, to remember what he observes, and to seek answers for his unceasing hows and whys about things.”
--Alexander Graham Bell

What You Seek

“What you seek is seeking you.”
--Jalal-al-Din Rumi

First Seek Virtue

“Seek first the virtues of the mind; and other things either will come, or will not be wanted.”
--Francis Bacon

The Best Revenge

“The best revenge is to have enough self-worth not to seek it.”
--Unknown

Win First

"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.”
--Sun Tzu

Find It

“I do not seek, I find.”
--Pablo Picasso