“By trying to grab fulfillment everywhere, we find it nowhere.”
Source: Passion and Purity
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Elisabeth Elliot58
American missionary 1926–2015Related quotes
“If someone grabs you, you will only try to grab back if you are scared.”
Wong Shun Leung (1935–1997) martial artist
Wisdom Quotes
“Dealing with the Liberals, it was like trying to grab quicksilver.”
Alex Salmond (1954) Scottish National Party politician and former First Minister of Scotland
“Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.”
Novalis book Blüthenstaub
Fragment No. 1; Variant: We seek the absolute everywhere and only ever find things.
Blüthenstaub (1798)
Frédéric Bazille (1841–1870) French painter
Quote from Bazille's letter to his mother, c. 1864; as quoted in Frédéric Bazille and early Impressionism, Marandel, Daulte et al. p. 166
1861 - 1865
“God is everywhere, and you can find him everywhere.”
Genghis Khan (1162–1227) founder and first emperor of the Mongol Empire
Mohammad Habib and Khaliq Ahmad Nizami (ed.), A Comprehensive History of India, New Delhi, 1970, Volume V, The Sultanat, First Reprint, 1982. Quoted from Sita Ram Goel, The Calcutta Quran Petition (1999) ISBN 9788185990583 Chapter 10.
Valerie Solanas (1936–1988) American radical feminist and writer. Attempted to assassinate Andy Warhol.
Source: SCUM MANIFESTO (1967), p. 2.
“I guess I'm trying to say, Grab anything that goes by. It may not come around again.”
John Steinbeck book The Winter of Our Discontent
Source: The Winter of Our Discontent
Shane Claiborne The Irresistible Revolution
The Irresistible Revolution (2006)
Source: The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical