Quotes About Pursuit

What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven.

Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion.

Dumb-bunnies think that if they don't understand the dharma or memorize it, then there's no benefit to even hearing it. They think that the best thing is to pursue knowledge and that if they forget what they've learned they might as well not have learned it at all.

The key to living your dreams is to wake up.

I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.

I learned from a very young age that if I persued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.

We are merely escaped fugitives about to steal some horses to avoid a death sentence.

Revenge wouldn't drive her. But questions . Yes, questions would.

Well, perhaps by one definition. But it seems that either one—good or evil—has to be pursued for it to be significant. People today … it seems they are good, or sometimes evil, mostly by inertia, not by choice. They act as their surroundings prepare them to act.

And yet, any who know me will realize that there was no chance I would give up so easily. Once I find something to investigate, I become dogged in my pursuit.

We need happy moments and happiness in our lives; however, I'm growing more convinced that the pursuit of happiness may get in the way of deeper, more meaningful experiences like joy and gratitude. I know, from the research and my experiences, that when it comes to parenting, what makes children happy in the moment is not always what leads them to developing deeper joy, grounded confidence, and meaningful connection.

We use our spare time to desperately search for joy and meaning in our lives. We think accomplishments and acquisitions will bring joy and meaning, but that pursuit could be the very thing that's keeping us so tired and afraid to slow down.

Since keeping a distance hadn't stopped him from thinking about her, he'd abandoned his campaign of avoidance for a new tack-spend as much time with her as possible in the hope that she would want him as much as he wanted her.

Hasn't it ever occurred to you that in your promiscuous pursuit of women you are merely trying to assuage your subconscious fears of sexual impotence? Yes, sir, it has. Then why do you do it? To assuage my fears of sexual impotence.

A life is a constant quest how to achieve the best result.

Criminals in a hurry are always the easiest to trace," Lundstr

There is no happiness in having and getting, but only in giving . . . half the world is on the wrong scent in the pursuit of happiness.

She may be lying in bed reading a book, she may be making love with a prize fighter, or she may be running like mad through a field of stubble, one shoe one, one shoe off, a man named Corn Cob pursuing her hotly. Wherever she is I am standing in complete darkness; her absence blots me out.

But it is better to follow even the shadow of the best than to remain content with the worst.

Let us, then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait.

Its reward is in the doing, And the rapture of pursuing Is the prize

Hast seen the white whale?

Aye, aye, it must be so. I've oversailed him. How, got the start? Aye, he's chasing ME now; not I, HIM--that's bad

Beauty - what is beauty, forsooth? Form and color; that is, surface only. Fortune - what is fortune? Nothing is ever a pleasure or a real profit to him who has to labour for it. Truth - you die in the pursuit, and the sea beats the beach as it did a thousand years ago. The stolid are alone happy.