Quotes About Pursuit

Dream and love are just words - until you decide to experience them

There are four obstacles. First: we are told from childhood onward that everything we want to do is impossible. The second obstacle: love. We know what we want to do, but are afraid of hurting those around us by abandoning everything in order to pursue our dream. The third obstacle: fear of the defeats we will meet on the path. The fourth obstacle: the fear of realizing the dream for which we fought all our lives.

life is really generous to those who pursue their Personal Legend

La felicidad es una bendición, pero generalmente es también una conquista.

Why don't people's hearts tell them to continue to follow their dreams? [...] Because that's what makes a heart suffer most, and hearts don't like to suffer.

Why don't people's hearts tell them to continue to follow their dreams? the boy asked the alchemist. Because that's what makes a heart suffer most, and hearts don't like to suffer.

It's true; life really is generous to those who pursue their Personal Legend.

It's true; life really is generous to those who pursue their destiny.

I see no contradiction between my search and personal happiness. -BRIDA

Dis-lui que la crainte de la souffrance est pire que la souffrance elle-même. Et qu'aucun cÅ"ur n'a jamais souffert alors qu'il était à la poursuite de ses rêves, parce que chaque instant de quête est un instant de rencontre avec Dieu et avec l'Éternité.

We know what we want to do, but are afraid of hurting those around us by abandoning everything in order to pursue our dream. We do not realize that love is just a further impetus, not something that will prevent us going forward. We do not realize that those who genuinely wish us well want us to be happy and are prepared to accompany us on that journey.

Going after a dream has a price. It may mean abandoning our habits, it may make us go through hardships, or it may lead us to disappointment, et cetera. But however costly it may be, it is never as high as the price paid by people who didn't live. Because one day they will look back and hear their own heart say: 'I wasted my life.' 

if we understand how growth happens and are inspired to pursue the path of awakening, we develop an appetite for the things that challenge us. We become increasingly drawn to the places where learning and deepening can happen.

there's more to liberation than trying to avoid discomfort, more to lasting happiness than pursuing temporary pleasures, temporary relief.

Follow the argument wherever it leads.

Keep doing what you like to do. That's all it is.

To sculpt a head of hair with scissors is an art form. It's in pursuit of art.

There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.

There were times in the past that I got angry at some members of the press whose writings greatly disrupted my serious pursuit of art and my behavior as an artist.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything.

The way one approaches a wilderness story is to fashion a quest - find something that you are truly interested in finding or discovering.

Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects.

There is no more graceful and healthful accomplishment for a lady than fly-fishing, and there is no reason why a lady should not in every respect, rival a gentleman in the gentle art.

Happy thou art not; for what thou hast not, still thou strivest to get; and what thou hast, forgettest.