Quotes About What You Are Looking For

#1. You are
What you are looking for
In fragmented mirrors
Stop looking
Be Still
End the mind-noise
Silence Now
Eyes shut
Heart wide-open
And then you see
Everything!

Gabriel Iqbal

#2. Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.

A.A. Milne

#3. In life, you will always find what you are looking for.

Debasish Mridha

#4. Reading someone else's newspaper is like sleeping with someone else's wife. Nothing seems to be precisely in the right place, and when you find what you are looking for, it is not clear then how to respond to it.

Malcolm Bradbury

#5. All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#6. You will find what you are looking for when you realize God has placed those longings in your heart as a divine desire; your hunger is a gift from God to draw you to Him. It's a holy want with a holy fulfillment. Everything you really need and want is offered by and found in Him.

Mike Bickle

#7. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
The damned thing in the cave that was so dreaded has become the center.

Joseph Campbell

#8. What you are looking for is what is looking.

Francis Of Assisi

#9. Seek self before you venture to conquer the world. Most of what you are looking for is rooted inside you.

Eric Onyango Otieno

#10. Serendipity is when you find things you weren't looking for because finding what you are looking for is so damned difficult.

Erin McKean

#11. Even if you find what you are looking for, you may discover its not worth the price.

David Downing

#12. To find what you are looking for, you must first forget what you are looking for!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#13. What if you suddenly saw through all your fear and ignorance, your restless craziness, and realized that you already possess what you are looking for because you already are everything you are looking for?

Karen Maezen Miller

#14. Most people who make threats don't follow through. The most dangerous people are often those who never make threats. But 'most' and 'often' aren't what you are looking for when you're dealing with a scary person. You want to 'know.' And there is no knowing.

Susan Estrich

#15. Pharmacology is benefited by the prepared mind. You need to know what you are looking for.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#16. Life the veil that obscures the heart, and there you will find what you are looking for.

Kabir

#17. What you are looking for is what you are looking with.

Ernest Holmes

#18. Nothing is ever enough when what you are looking for isn't what you really want.

Arianna Huffington

#19. You would never find what you are looking for if you couldn't express yourself.

Paulo Coelho

#20. Peace is when the heart is no longer in duality, when the struggle within has been resolved ... A voice has been calling out: "What you are looking for is within you. Your truth is within you, your peace is within you ... "

Prem Rawat

#21. May you find what you are looking for and realize it is not the answer.

Ahmed Mostafa

#22. What you see and feel depends on what you know and what you are looking for.

Debasish Mridha

#23. You will never find what you are looking for in love, if you don't love yourself.

Lady Gaga

#24. What you see often depends on what you are looking for.

Stephen Covey

#25. There is nowhere to go. What you are looking for is right here. Open the fist clenched in wanting and see what you already hold in your hand

Oriah Dreamer

#26. What you are looking for is already in you ... You already are everything you are seeking.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#27. The problem with digital books is that you can always find what you are looking for but you need to go to a bookstore to find what you weren't looking for.

Paul Krugman

#28. Take a moment and sit with yourself. You may find what you are looking for.

Steven Cuoco

#29. The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.

Joseph Campbell

#30. In the end it's up to you - it's about what you see, it's about what you are looking for. If you're expecting Chaos, then you will see chaos, if you're expecting to make money then you will find ways to make money. But you need to be clear about your thoughts.

Osayi Emokpae Lasisi

#31. What you are looking for is not out there. It is inside of you. You just have to reveal it.

Debasish Mridha

#32. What you are looking for is within you Fall silent a moment and contemplate what that means ... You lack nothing.

Prem Rawat

#33. You only find what you are looking for, really, if the truth be known.

Mary Leakey

#34. What are you looking for, little man? Is it yourself you're trying to identify?Are you looking at little things to avoid big things?

John Steinbeck

#35. I suppose I do get sad, but not for too long. I just look in the mirror and go, 'What a fucking good-looking fuck you are.' And then I brighten up.

Liam Gallagher

#36. Something inside you emerges ... an innate, indwelling peace, stillness, aliveness. It is the unconditioned, who you are in your essence. It is what you had been looking for in the love object. It is yourself.

Eckhart Tolle

#37. All the decisions you makehow many of those decisions are based on you doing simply what's right in your own eyes, and how many times specifically have you gone to Scripture looking for the answer, with regard to anything?

Paul Washer

#38. Most people are not looking for provable truths. As you said, truth is often accompanied by intense pain, and almost no one is looking for painful truths. What people need is beautiful, comforting stories that make them feel as if their lives have some meaning. Which is where religion comes from.

Haruki Murakami

#39. What is it?" she asked.
"I'm looking for your wings. You are my guardian angel, aren't you?"
"I'm afraid not," she replied, her cheeks dimplingwith a wry smile. "There's too much of the devil in me for that."
"Just how much devil," I grinned, "are we talking about here?

Gregory David Roberts

#40. All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader?

Hakeem Olajuwon

#41. I suppose what I like about Zen is that the teachers are constantly questioning your insight and challenging it, looking for sloppiness or laziness in it, and ways you can go past that.

David O. Russell

#42. "What are you looking for?" "Gandolf," I cracked, trying not to laugh. He pursed his lips. "I'm serious. You need to listen.

Liz Schulte

#43. You forget that you do choose your life and there are so many things to be grateful for and I feel like society has gotten to that point where we're always looking for the next and the better and we lose sight of what's actually in front of us.

Shailene Woodley

#44. The thing about being an outsider ... is that it teaches you to hear what people are thinking because you're constantly looking for the people who just don't give a damn.

Mike Nichols

#45. Kane: So, what should I do?
Helen: Are you looking for another slap on the head? Hook up that wonderful connection you now have with your mate. Go find her, explain how you feel and then have some great make-up sex!

Nicky Charles

#46. Yeah, that went really well. What, I wasn't gentle enough for you? Were you looking for flowers and candles? You don't like to sweat? Are you really a romantic under the tough guy swagger?"

Gabriel straightened. "No, but Oz said that you are."

~Dev/Gabe

Sydney Croft

#47. When you are clear about what you want to learn, you will find your teacher. The teacher is already there. The two of you will meet because you are looking for each other.

W.A. Mathieu

#48. What are you looking at?"

"I was thinking about becoming a lady of the night."

"What?"

"There's actually an ad looking for one. Can you believe it? It pays a grand a week."

"Shit, for a grand a week, "I'll become a lady of the night.

L.A. Fiore

#49. Commitment. That's what it's all about. Taking that convenant together. Bonding yourselves for all eternity. Isn't that what we are all looking for? Maybe Alexander wasn't ready to do that with me, but it's obvious he isn't ready to do that with you, either.

Ellen Schreiber

#50. What the masses don't realize is that they're looking for a shepherd. Those who don't think they can be influenced or call themselves 'independent thinkers' are usually the biggest conformists of all - and the easiest to turn. Why do you think cults prey on college students? Easy picking.

Richard Paul Evans

#51. The simplicity we are looking for is not found in thought. It knows what you have to listen to in every moment and knows it can never make a mistake. It is the infinite working in the infinite. It projects into this world because we are here to do that.

Robert Young

#52. How are you supposed to find what you're looking for if you're not convinced it's even out there?

Jennifer E. Smith

#53. I don't want to use Amber, I can't. It's not fair to her. I am not looking for someone to fill my heart or my mind or my bed, because when you are lucky enough to know exactly what you want then fuck the rehearsal. No one else will ever compare.

Katie Kacvinsky

#54. With books at least, the best experiences are not when you find what you were looking for, but when something quite different finds you, takes you by surprise, shifts your tastes to new territory.

Tim Parks

#55. I love you," was his reply. "I make myself keep on loving you, despite what you do. I've got to love you. We all have to love you, and believe in
you, and think you are looking out for our best interests. But look at us, Momma, and really see us.

V.C. Andrews

#56. As an actor, you are always looking for subtext, for layers, for what's going on underneath.

Antje Traue

#57. People where you live grow five thousand roses in one garden ... yet they don't find what they are looking for.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#58. What I Cannot Say
only this
I was looking
for evidence of unconditional love,
but what I found was you.
standing on the ferry deck
your dark hair a fury in the wind
Are you lost to me?

Elissa Janine Hoole

#59. What I'm saying is, when you have weight like that in your life, you have to start looking for the bigger picture or you are gonna sink.

Isaac Marion

#60. My love for you spans over the lines of my past, present, and future. You are what I love remembering, what I love experiencing, and what I love looking forward to.

Steve Maraboli

#61. I'm getting fatter by the moment."

If you can relate to this expression, and the holidays are looming before you, than this book may be just what you've been looking for.

From: Thanksgiving to Christmas Diet

Heidi White

#62. We've found that customers are very open. They'll tell you what's going on, what's working and what's not. They're looking for help.

Michael Dell

#63. The angry one looked her over. "What's your name?" "These are not the droids you are looking for," she said. The smaller, auburn-haired man to her left cracked up.

Alanea Alder

#64. There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very authentically looking for truth.

Donald Miller

#65. You know,' she begins, 'you fellas ought to be looking after each other.' Her comment makes me realise that through the lies, the greatest irony is that we are looking out for each other. It's just that in the end, we're letting her down. That's what injures us.

Markus Zusak

#66. A tip for looking 'picture perfect' is probably a smile. I think everyone looks better when they are happy; you give off a glow - or at least that is what my mum would say!

Amber Le Bon

#67. The fact is, the more you look for something, the likelier you are to find it, even if it isn't actually there; Sooner or later, if you look hard enough, you'll find something.
The trick is then to interpret what you've found as what you were looking for.

K.J. Parker

#68. At times, there are misunderstandings [during shooting]. Especially with green screen and not really knowing what it is that you're looking at, you really depend on the director to create that world for you.

Danny Huston

#69. What exactly are you looking for in a job? Like, what's your best-case scenario for a new career?"
"I haven't really thought that far. The best-case scenario is just that I look back on this entire era of my life and laugh and say, 'What a weird time that was. I can't believe I did that.

Drew Nellins Smith

#70. It's always so cool to think you are looking at today is something other people have been looking at for centuries. It's the closest I've come to touching immortality, by reading the words of dead people.

Sarah Strohmeyer

#71. So you go in a library, and you pull a book off the shelf, and you open it, and what are you looking for? A mirror. All of a sudden, a mirror is there and you see yourself.

Ray Bradbury

#72. The built-in form is a window frame. You can use this genre [crime fiction] to go where you want to go, and explore what you want to explore. In some ways it gives you a lot of freedom because you have a framework readers are looking for.

Michael Connelly

#73. It is popularly known that it takes one thousand hours to master something, anything. But what you and I are looking for is not the high end mastery but we just want to be good at it, enough to see us through our daily lives. This is where the 21 day rule comes in.

Angelina Talpa

#74. This is what happens on journeys - the things you find are not necessarily the things you had gone looking for.

Anne Ursu

#75. My truth - what I believe - is that there are no answers here and, if you are looking for answers, you'd better choose the question carefully.

Javier Bardem

#76. But what are we looking for?"
"You'll know when you find it.

Sarah Winman

#77. I'm interested in human behavior, and what happened in my family life is definitely not a unique story. There are aspects of that I'm sure you can see through the work. But I'm just looking for something that touches me.

Charlize Theron

#78. Matthias handed over the bag. "What are you looking for?"
"A sedative," said the medik.
"Is that safe for a pregnant woman?"
"For me.

Leigh Bardugo

#79. Obviously, doing TV and doing theater are completely different because they're two totally different mediums. On stage, you worry about your voice and how you move physically. On TV, something like an eye twitch is what they could be looking for from you because it's so contained.

Jake Epstein

#80. There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do.

John Cusack

#81. I don't know what young fellows want to go in for those sort of things for?" I said. "Wars are a waste of time; and advertising is all lies." "I am afraid, my dear Mister Le Page," he said, looking very sorry for me, "you are an anachronism.

G.B. Edwards

#82. Spending time looking for what is missing in your life is futile; if you fail to look within yourself. When we challenge everything we believe we are, we reveal that which we never knew about our own selves.

Nicolas G. Janovsky

#83. Many people go through their whole lives having no real sense of what their talents may be, or if they have any to speak of. Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for them, they're not just lying around on the surface.

Ken Robinson

#84. You're not looking for the Rolls Royce and the big fancy trailer. Those are supposed to be the byproducts of having fun and then getting good at what you do.

Bruce Campbell

#85. What it is you are looking for, isnt at the stars but in front of your eyes ... when you download the head ... will find it.

Georgia Kakalopoulou

#86. I'm still looking for someone
Who said they were here for me,
And I thought I was once there for you.
But when troubles are nearer than friends,
And the road comes to an end,
What could I do?
I wish I could fly away like you.

Margo T. Rose

#87. I live in Nashville, and I love to sing. When I'm on stage, I feel like a performer for sure. I know people are looking at me and taking pictures and singing along, and that part's wonderful, but I do live in Nashville. I live the most boring life away from what you see me on camera doing.

Carrie Underwood

#88. I love market research because you really have an idea of what your consumers are looking for.

Aerin Lauder

#89. Stop looking all over the place for "the answers" - whatever they are - and start looking for the questions - the inquiries which are most important in your life, and give them answers. You do not live each day to discover what it holds for you, but to create it.

Neale Donald Walsch

#90. You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Albert Camus

#91. I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.

A.S. Byatt

#92. Are you truly doing what's best for the nation, what's best for the Army, what's best for your unit, and what's best for your soldiers and their families? Are you taking all of that into consideration, or are you looking at what makes you as an individual look the best?

Richard A. Kidd

#93. Mr. Crepsley "What are you doing?"
Darren "Looking for fangs."
Mr. Crepsley "We do not grow fangs, you ass!

Darren Shan

#94. If you are looking for answers for your life, know that the answers are within you. When you close your eyes, and focus on your inner God (meditate), you will know what to do. Trust yourself!

Camilla Dorand

#95. It's hard to know what to say about somebody like that, except there are people who look for trouble. And trouble is very easy to find when you go looking for it.

Patty Hearst

#96. I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.

Tom Glavine

#97. You're a wondering soul, looking for a peace that doesn't exist. Lost you will be until you find the one inner truth. We can never hide from what we are. The only hope is to embrace it.' (Old Seer)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#98. What are you doing with all those books anyway?" Ron asked.
Just trying to decide which ones to take with us," said Hermione. When we're looking for the Horcruxes."
Oh, of course," said Ron, clapping a hand to his forehead. "I forgot we'll be hunting down Voldemort in a mobile library.

J.K. Rowling

#99. What are you two doing barefoot and half naked in the mud?" asked a familiar voice. "Looking for truffles, I hope?

Leigh Bardugo

#100. Television is really what we've been looking for all our lives ... [It's] perfect. You turn a few knobs and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primordial ooze.

Raymond Chandler