Quotes About Pursuit

The flu you can get over, search for the truth has no cure.

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That's why the most stressed-out people are control freaks. They fail at the quest they most pursue. The more they try to control the world, the more they realize they cannot. Life becomes a cycle of anxiety, failure; anxiety, failure; anxiety, failure. We can't take control, because control is not ours to take.

God's pursuing you

O, in this single hour I live, All of myself and do not move. I, the pursued, who madly ran, Stand still, stand still and stop the sun!

She'd made it a game. Hide-and-seek, Rambo style. The most epic game of hide-and-seek ever.

Oh, I think it's a damn good time because you can't escape me. You can't run. You can't avoid me.

But you can't hide from me, Lyric. I'm learning you. I want to learn more.

Men enjoy the hunt, you see, and once their quarry has been taken, they tend to lose all interest.

I'm watching you, Josh," she said. "So are the police. You can't hide anymore. You're going to have to keep looking over your shoulder, wherever you go now, because they will come for you soon, and when they do, I will be there to watch.

The door to this building was left not only unlocked but ajar. As we are not generally in the business of inviting burglars to walk in and make themselves at home, I do hope you have an excellent explanation. We were being pursued by a writing desk that eats men's hearts, Julian said. Oppenshaw considered that. Interesting, he said.

She couldn't catch you anyways!

In the dominator model the pursuit of external power, the ability to manipulate and control others, is what matters most. When culture is based on a dominator model, not only will it be violent but it will frame all relationships as power struggles.

When politicians prioritize local rule instead of trying to force the whole country to agree with them, I think the pursuit of happiness will be within the reach of a far greater portion of our populace.

De te ?ii dup? umbr?, fuge de tine; Fugi de ea, ?i te va urma.

I am pursuing Truth, and am indifferent whither I am led, if she is my only leader.

The man who pursues happiness wisely will aim at the possession of a number of subsidiary interests in addition to those central ones upon which his life is built.

Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Human beings cannot, of course, wholly transcend human nature; something subjective, if only the interest that determines the direction of our attention, must remain in all our thought. But scientific philosophy comes nearer to objectivity than any other human pursuit, and gives us, therefore, the closest constant and the most intimate relation with the outer world that it is possible to achieve.

The pursuit of social success, in the form of prestige or power or both, is the most important obstacle in a competitive society.

When a moderate degree of comfort is assured, both individuals and communities will pursue power rather than wealth: they may seek wealth as a means to power, or they may forgo an increase of wealth in order to secure an increase of power, but in the former case as in the latter their fundamental motive is not economic.

The pursuit of social success, in the form of prestige or power or both, is the most important obstacle to happiness in a competitive society.

The practical distinction among passions comes as regards their success: some passions lead to success in what is desired; others, to failure. If you pursue the former, you will be happy; if the latter, unhappy.