Quotes About Pursuit

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

When I came to America, I told my dad I wanted to be an actress.

It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.

followed me to the sideboard like Willie Pep chasing some little pisher around the ring.

The essence of Christian faith has come to us in story form, the story of a God who will go to any lengths to get his family back. The Bible tells of flawed people -- people just like me -- who make shockingly bad choices and yet still find themselves pursued by God. As they receive grace and forgiveness, naturally they want to give it to others, and a thread of hope and transformation weaves its way throughout the Bible's accounts.

Fulfillment comes not in pursuit of happiness, but rather in pursuit of service.

Happiness recedes from those who pursue her." Happiness will come upon me unexpectedly as a by-product, a surprising bonus for something I have invested myself in. And, most likely, that investment will include pain. It is hard to imagine pleasure without it.

Keep him coming forward but never let him think that you come forward yourself. He wants to feel that he is pursuing you, not that you are entrapping him. When he gives you the choice of coming forward or running away, like then—you must always run away.But don't run too fast. Remember he has to catch you.

You have to keep him coming forward," she said. "Keep him coming forward but never let him think that you come forward yourself. He wants to feel that he is pursuing you, not that you are entrapping him. When he gives you the choice of coming forward or running away, like then—you must always run away." The

But don't run too fast," my sister warned. "Remember he has to catch you.

Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.

As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.

To the degree that I cease to persue my deepest passions, I will gradually be controlled by my deepest fears.

Human nature was originally one and we were a whole, and the pursuit of the whole is called love.

for philosophy, Socrates, if pursued in moderation and at the proper age, is an elegant accomplishment, but too much philosophy is the ruin of human life.

And yet even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.

The great enemy of Plato is the world, not exactly in the theological sense, yet in one not wholly different--the world as the hater of truth and lover of appearance, occupied in the pursuit of gain and pleasure rather than of knowledge, banded together against the few good and wise men, and devoid of true education.

But when a man begins to get older, he will no longer be guilty of such insanity; he will imitate the dialectician who is seeking for truth, and not the eristic, who is contradicting for the sake of amusement; and the greater moderation of his character will increase instead of diminishing the honour of the pursuit. Very true, he said. And

Philosophy starts nowhere else but with wondering.

Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and all philosophy begins in wonder

There is no need, however, to be angry at this ambition of theirs-- which may be forgiven; for every man ought to be loved who says and manfully pursues and works out anything which is at all like wisdom: at the same time we shall do well to see them as they really are.

What being is there that does not desire happiness? Well then, since all of us desire happiness, how can we be happy? – that is the next question.