„That low man seeks a little thing to do,Sees it and does it.This high man, with a great thing to pursue,Dies ere he knows it.That low man goes on adding one to one,—His hundred’s soon hit;This high man, aiming at a million,Misses an unit.That has the world here—should he need the next,Let the world mind him!This throws himself on God, and unperplexedSeeking shall find him.“

— Robert Browning

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„A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.“
— Max Lucado
„A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.“
— Maya Angelou
„To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who sees the world in Him stands in His presence.“
— Martin Buber
„With the maturity of his soul, a man desires to probe the depths of life, he desires to discover the power latent within him, he longs to know the sources and goal of his life, he yearns to understand the aim and meaning of his life, he wishes to understand the inner significance of things, and he wants to uncover all that is covered by name and form. He seeks insight into cause and effect, he wants to touch the mystery of time and space, and he wishes to find the missing link between God and man — where man ends, where God begins.“
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
„In a world, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.“
— Jean Paul Sartre
„A physical man does not receive the things of the spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot get to know [them], because they are examined spiritually. However, the spiritual man examines indeed all things, but he himself is not examined by any man.“
— Paul of Tarsus
„He who does not know what the world is, does not know where he is. And he who does not know for what purpose the world exists, does not know who he is, nor what the world is. But he who has failed in any one of these things could not even say for what purpose he exists himself. What then dost thou think of him who [avoids or] seeks the praise of those who applaud, of men who know not either where they are or who they are?“
— Marcus Aurelius