Quotes About Pursuit

The poet pursues the trouble in your heart as pitilessly as he has ferreted out his own.

The pursuit of happiness: skipping is one of your best chances of catching it.

The true value of a man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to the Truth. It is not possession of the Truth, but rather the pursuit of Truth by which he extends his powers and in which his ever-growing perfectibility is to be found. Possession makes one passive, indolent, and proud.

Nicht die Wahrheit, in deren Besitz irgend ein Mensch ist oder zu sein vermeinet, sondern die aufrichtige Mühe, die er angewandt hat, hinter die Wahrheit zu kommen, macht den Wert des Menschen.

Science in the twenty-first century does NOT encourage scientists to take risks in their pursuit of "the facts"—particularly when those facts call into question long-established notions

I'm curious about life, period.

Humble submission to God's word must precede man's every intellectual pursuit.

What we resist pursues us. What we accept transforms us.

Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness.

So he stalked her again. Love makes hunters of us all.

Quien encuentra hace rato que está buscando, aunque no lo sepa.»

But the dream eludes wakeful pursuit; it always does.

It was an unhurried pursuit. I did not want information. I wanted to be cultivated, and thus I read at leisure with lingering appreciation.

There was an air of indifference about them [the male guests], a calm produced by the gratification of every passion… that special brutality which comes from the habit of breaking down half-hearted resistances that keep one fit and tickle one's vanity—the handling of blooded horses, the pursuit of loose women.

His studies were pursued but never effectually overtaken.

Miss Brinklow, however, was not yet to be sidetracked, "What do the lamas do?" she continued. "They devote themselves, madam, to contemplation and to the pursuit of wisdom." "But that isn't doing anything." "Then, madam, they do nothing." "I thought as much.

_ What do the [monks] do? [...] _ They devote themselves, madam, to contemplation and to the pursuit of wisdom. _ But that isn't *doing* anything. _ Then, madam, they do nothing. _ I thought as much.

There are times what you want will come to you. And there are times you have to go out and find it for yourself.

If you see a chance to be happy, you have to fight for it, so later you have no regrets.

I wonder if we spend most of our days trying to remember or forget things? Or do we spend most of our time running towards or away from our lives? I don't know.

If it hadn't been for emptiness, there would have been nothing to fill. Nothing to struggle with, strive for or dream, that pushes all our nothings into something.

I've got only one chance to give... my best shot.

Thus, soul solicits us even as we seek it. The German poet Friedrich Hölderlin expressed the paradox this way: "That which thou seekst is near, and already coming to meet thee.

And it was the din of all these hollow-sounding voices that made him halt irresolutely in the pursuit of phantoms. He gave them ear only for a time but he was happy only when he was far from them, beyond their call, alone or in the company of phantasmal comrades.