Quotes About Pursuit

Life is short, and you don't always get an invitation to dance. If you see something you want, go after it. ~ 2000 Kisses

I love that your mine. I've never had anything for myself. Not one fucking thing, Evangeline. I love that when I finally have something, it's you. Your body. Your mind, Your heart. I'm going after that you know.

He was hunting. She knew all about hunting. She lived by hunting. Now she was the prey. Something perverse in her loved that.

My hope is that literature can replace religion as the source of our ethics, without ceasing to be a pleasurable study and pursuit in its own right

We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake. We do not hold our convictions dogmatically: the disagreement between Professor Stephen Jay Gould and Professor Richard Dawkins, concerning "punctuated evolution" and the unfilled gaps in post- Darwinian theory, is quite wide as well as quite deep, but we shall resolve it by evidence and reasoning and not by mutual excommunication.

Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake.

verdadero valor de un ser humano no viene determinado por su grado de posesión, supuesto o real, de la verdad, sino más bien por la honestidad de su esfuerzo en pos de alcanzarla. No es la posesión de la verdad, sino más bien la búsqueda de la misma, lo que ensancha su capacidad y donde puede hallarse su siempre creciente perfectibilidad. La posesión nos convierte en sujetos pasivos, indolentes y orgullosos.

Knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light

Josh se alejó despacio, más o menos en dirección a aquella montaña. El monte Tabor, creo que era. La señora Zebedeo se puso a perseguir a sus hijos como quien persigue pollos

Happiness, Eragon had decided, was a fleeting, futile thing to pursue. Contentment, on the other hand, was a far more worthwhile goal.

Our strength with magic grants us as much leisure as we desire. We neither hunt nor farm, and, as a result, we spend our days working to master our interests, whatever they might be. Very little exists that we must strive for." Through

The doing is the thing.

As much as you long for it, it longs for you more. Take one step toward the Big Person and it will take a hundred steps toward you.

Redstone Challenge Try

Where is all my wisdom, then? I behaved stubbornly, pursuing a semblance of order, when I should have known well that there is no order in the universe.

because one who knows not how to seek will never find…

In the city as nowhere else we are reminded that we are individuals, units. Yet the idea of the city remains; it is the god of the city we pursue, in vain.

Don't aim at success -- the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself.

But I have been exposed, I am pursued - by myself! That is a pursuit that does not readily let go.

There is a way of avoiding which resembles seeking.

Whom man kill, God restores to life; whom the brothers pursue the Father redeems. Pray and believe and go onward into life. You Father is there.

Every skull-cap may dream of the tiara. The priest is nowadays the only man who can become a king in a regular manner; and what a king! the supreme king.

Esiste un modo di evitare che somiglia al cercare

There are in this world two creatures that quiver intensely: the mother who finds her lost child and the tiger that comes on its prey. Javert had that intense quivering.