Quotes About Pursuit

Secret #24 While some people run fast toward Gold Medals, many others run even faster from German Shepherds.

Over this odd world, this half the world that's dark now, I have to hunt a thing that lives on tears.

She would wait until she wandered around this room filled with people she knew and loved, until she had wished every last one of them a new year filled with hope and dreams and yearning. She would not wish any of them success or prosperity or wealth because the magic was in the dreaming. She knew that now. America had taught her that. How wise, to talk about the pursuit of happiness and not of happiness itself.

Following this, I set up residence in the palace of silver parasols and spent my time pursuing study, reflection, and meditation.

This right to life, this right to liberty, and this right to pursue one's happiness is unabashedly individualistic, without in the slightest denying at the same time our thoroughly social nature. It's only that our social relations, while vital to us all, must be chosen -­ that is what makes the crucial difference.

For what its worth, I think happiness is a fleeting condition, not a permanent goddamn state of mind. I've learned that if you chase after moments of bliss here and there, sometimes those moments will sustain you through the shit. ...Personally, I don't like inherently happy people. I don't trust them. I think there is something seriously wrong with anyone who isn't at least a little let down by the world." - Paul Hudson

If you want me you're going to have to come and get me.

Life, Love, and the Goddamn Pursuit of Happiness.

Right!" The guard took off around one end of the desk. The manager ran around the other. Circle after circle.

Chase scenes normally just have to be exciting and, you know, not a lot of emotion you need to go through. It's just about getting from A to B with as much excitement as you can.

Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.

I had this notion that maybe I wanted to be an actor... I thought it might be a neat career. I thought if I was going to try that, I should shoot for the best, and I auditioned for Julliard.

I've always had this impression that notoriety came when you're trying to get notoriety.

Football is a passion that she holds dear to her heart. She's really going for her dream and there are obstacles in the way, but deep down she knows what she wants, and she pursues that.

Olive Ann describes Sanna as 'a perfectionist and a worrier.' She is obsessed with the idea of finding happiness, and for her, as Olive ann wrote in her notes for the novel, 'happiness means being first with somebody, having perfect, loving children...The theme of Sanna is disillusionment,' Olive Ann wrote. 'Her life is the pursuit of happiness and perfection, but she finds happiness and perfection impossible to obtain-her idea of happiness is constant joy, no changes.

Život se ne živi zbog na?ela, nego zato da bismo bili sretni.

I znaj ovo: oni koji traže samo sre?u, nikada je ne na?u!

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

There is no satisfaction like that which comes from the steady, persistent, honest, conscientious pursuit of a noble aim.

I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.

My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable!

Son las virtudes algo lejano? En cuanto quiero ser virtuoso, inmediatamente estoy alcanzando la virtud