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Quotes About Pursuit

What do you do when your dreams are about to come true?" she asks. "No one ever tells you. They tell you to chase them, but what happens when you actually catch one?" "You enjoy it. Do your best, try not to be a dick.
~ Patrick Ness
What do you do when your dreams are about to come true? No one ever tells you. They tell you to chase them, but what happens when you actually catch one?
~ Patrick Ness
What do you do when your dreams are about to come true?" she asks. "No one ever tells you. They tell you to chase them, but what happens when you actually catch one?
~ Patrick Ness
It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers... That way, when he finds the answers, they'll be precious to him. The harder the question, the harder we hunt. The harder we hunt, the more we learn.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
There can be many opinions on a thing, but there is only one truth." Vashet smiled lazily. "And if the pursuit of the truth was my goal, that would concern me." She gave a long yawn, stretching like a happy cat. "Instead I will focus on the joy in my heart, [...}
~ Patrick Rothfuss
No es mas que una persecución, y creo que compadezco a las mujeres castas que huyen y se pierden el final de la carrera
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Pero incluso buscarla y no encontrarla era reconfortante, en cierto modo. En cierto modo, ese parecía ser el fundamento de nuestra relación.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
We're being followed," I said, not bothering to whisper it. They were at least seventy feet behind us,
~ Patrick Rothfuss
La excelencia es la única compañera de la excelencia.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
It's all a chase, and when the race is done, I think I pity women chaste who run.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
I'd seen Simmon pursue nearly every woman within three miles of the University with the doomed enthusiasm of a child trying to fly.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
And if the pursuit of the truth was my goal, that would concern me." She gave a long yawn, stretching like a happy cat. "Instead I will focus on the joy in my heart...
~ Patrick Rothfuss
There can be many opinions on a thing, but there is only one truth." Vashet smiled lazily. "And if the pursuit of truth was my goal, that would concern me." She gave a long yawn, stretching like a happy cat. "Instead I will focus on the joy in my heart, the prosperity of the school, and understanding the Lethani. If I have time left after that, I will put it toward worrying on the truth.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
No era él quien perseguia la fragancia, sino la fragancia la que le había hecho prisionero y ahora le atraía irrevocablemente hacia sí.
~ Patrick Süskind
Don't ever be sorry for following your dream. Of all emotions, regret is the most futile.
~ Unknown
and what they do that looks so beautiful, is hunt .
~ Unknown
Blaise Pascal was even blunter: "All men seek happiness. This is without exception." And, to make clear how serious he is, he later adds: "This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves.
~ Paul Bloom
Personal ministry is not about always knowing what to say. It is not about fixing everything in sight that is broken. Personal ministry is about connecting people with Christ so that they are able to think as he would have them think, desire what he says is best, and do what he calls them to do even if their circumstances never get "fixed." It involves exposing hurt, lost, and confused people to God's glory, so that they give up their pursuit of their own glory and live for his.
~ Paul David Tripp
you become like the treasure that you seek.
~ Paul David Tripp
The Psalms welcome us to a faith where God's agenda is more important than ours and where we are asked to live out our faith in the context of a disastrously broken world. But this is also precisely where we experience the highest personal joys, as we put our hope in the covenant love of the Lord and make the pursuit of his glory the goal of our lives.
~ Paul David Tripp
Ask yourself: What makes your good day a good day? What are the things that tend to make you happy and satisfied? What gives your life a sense of meaning and purpose? What are the things you faithfully pursue, and what are you hoping to experience once you get them? If I watched the video of your last year, what treasure would I conclude you're after?
~ Paul David Tripp
What we need most is a heart ruled by the Lord rather than by "evil desires." We need to be progressively freed from our slavery to the god-replacements that imprison us in self-absorbed pursuit of our own glory.
~ Paul David Tripp
Seeing yourself as hopeless and helpless if left to yourself initiates and ignites your pursuit of God's grace.
~ Paul David Tripp
The physical world is full of many glories, but the pursuit of these glories must not rule my heart because they have no ability whatsoever to offer me the life that I so desperately need.
~ Paul David Tripp