Quotes About Pursuit

When the question is Why do you want to be happy? the answer is simple and definitive. We pursue happiness because it is in our nature to do so. When the answer to a question is Because it will make me happy, nothing can challenge the validity and finality of the answer. Happiness is the highest on the hierarchy of goals, the end toward which all other ends lead.

Seeking Romulan Montargo here and there, Leopardo had continually not found him.

What man would not romance a woman who had invited him? And what woman would not romance a man who had chosen her? It was the nature of the Great Romance.

attempting to find in motion what was lost in space.

I followed, from then on, in my father's footsteps, attempting to find in motion what was lost in space.

When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the most herculean undertakings.

Youth, health, wealth and beauty are meant to be fuel, to be burned in pursuit of pleasure, and not fruit to be pickled in anticipation of some future famine. (Hang on a minute and I'll get my sequins out and give you a quick rendition of 'My Way')

As for me, the closest I have come to exaltation has been here at the university, with a book in my hand. Literature has served me faithfully (no pun intended) as an ersatz religion, and I would wager that the pursuit of the ineffable via aesthetics in various forms has saved as many foundering souls as a belief in god.

Umblam fara sa ne cautam, dar stiind ca umblam ca sa ne gasim.

Ahora sé que no es así, que Johnny persigue en vez de ser perseguido, que todo lo que le está ocurriendo en la vida son azares del cazador y no del animal acosado.

I grew up in a really small town with not a lot of money, and I liked singing, but it was just something that was a hobby.

Look around the habitable world: how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

In the end he came to the conclusion that it was like being chased by his own shadow; it could never actually catch him, but it'd never give up trying.

for happiness, as a rule, is hard to come by:

When a man wants something he must pursue it with all he has. - Salvadore, The Tutor by Kailin Gow

I'm going to go after what I want.", Summer Jones in Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

Books have a curious effect on those with certain predispositions to fall into obsession.

Happiness and misery are two sides of the very same coin. To seek one is to seek the other.

Miserable is what a man becomes when he hankers for happiness.

It is not easy to find something that will intrigue and bind your interest and enthusiasm. This you must seek for yourself.

Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.

I'd say that acting is a side project for Jack.

Jeff Ament, the bass player, plays basketball. He ultimately wants to do music, but he's really good at basketball, too. We all want to do what we can't do, maybe.

I was 35 years old and in a position to take a shot at whatever I wanted to try. The Air Force said I was too old to fly fighter jets. I thought about becoming a fishing boat captain, before deciding that acting seemed pretty cool.