Frank Moore Colby Quotes

Since I was a child, I started to ask very difficult questions; even my family was telling me all the time, 'You're a very difficult person, and we were having trouble answering your questions. Why are you asking so many questions?'

My most important quality or property is curiosity. And that had its beginning in what I was going to do with my life.

I think we all want to know where we came from and how we fit into the world, but some of us need to know how it all works in great detail.

If life's journey be endless where is its goal? The answer is, it is everywhere. We are in a palace which has no end, but which we have reached. By exploring it and extending our relationship with it we are ever making it more and more our own.

It seems essential to try to find some meaning to life and I guess Jungian philosophy is the one that's helped me understand myself and the world more than anything else.

I'm interested in people who have lived, who are searching and questioning.

The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.

There is no such thing as an unreasonable question, or a silly question, or a frivolous question, or a waste-of-time question. It's your life, and you've got to get these answers.

I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result.

I will never stop questioning. I will never stop wanting more and discovering other things and wanting to do other things. That will always be a part of me, and it's something I've come to terms with.

Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul.

It seems to me that it's every man's obligation to make what contribution he can. You live each day as best you can. That, to me, is what makes life interesting.

I think the more important task for a young person than developing a personal brand is figuring out what she's great at, what she loves to do, and how she can use that to leave an imprint in the world. Those are tough questions, but essential ones. Answer those - and the personal brand follows.

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

There are people who are seekers and people who aren't.

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

Whenever you're talking about meaning, basically... I think a lot of the human experience has to do with trying to understand what things mean, and there's not really any tools to do that unless you're thinking about it in a more spiritual or philosophical realm.

God puts certain things in certain people. I'm a restless soul. I'm always searching. I'm always pressing to find what truth is and what life is all about.

God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.

I wouldn't presume to know something, but I have lots to learn and that's what I attempt to do through my work.

My whole life I've been a seeker, searching for something.

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I'm someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

'SoulPancake' is a website that I founded with a couple of friends, and it is for exploring life's big questions.

I feel eager to learn as much as I can, not only about my craft but the world and the cosmos and how we got here and whether there's any purpose to our being here.

Acting, for me, is not an end in itself. It's more a means to asking the questions I'm obsessed with about life.