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Quotes About Pursuit

It is the pursuit of happiness that brings us happiness, and not the happiness achieved.
~ Jack White
Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.
~ James Hillman
The pursuit of individual happiness within those limits prescribed by social conditions, is the first requisite to the attainment of the greatest general happiness.
~ Herbert Spencer
Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.
~ Bertrand Russell
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
~ Eric Hoffer
Being happy is a great science. If you are not happy, do not be confused. Happiness is hard to achieve.
~ Petar Dunov
It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
~ Denis Waitley
We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.
~ Epicurus
Many search for happiness as we look for a hate we wear on our heads.
~ Nikolaus Lenau
Our predicament is not the difficulty of attaining happiness, but the difficult of avoiding the misery to which the pursuit of happiness exposes us.
~ Michael Joseph Oakeshott
Happiness, though an indefinite concept, is the goal of all rational beings
~ Immanuel Kant
It's a great game - the pursuit of happiness.
~ Eugene O'Neill
The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of.
~ John Locke
Be relentless in pursuing your happiness.
~ Theo Rossi
To me, it's like happiness is about happiness, but happiness is a fight.
~ Mos Def
Reading is by far the most successful pursuit of happiness.
~ John Grisham
What sets human beings apart from animals is not the pursuit of happiness, which occurs all across the natural world, but the pursuit of meaning, which is unique to humans.
~ Roy Baumeister
Discipleship is the pursuit of holiness and happiness. It is the path to our best and happiest self.
~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Happiness is an elusive state of mind not to be gained by clumsy pursuit.It is given to those who do not sue for it:to be unconcerned about a desired good is probably the only way to possess it.
~ Ruskin Bond
The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.
~ Aristotle
The more we devote ourselves to the pursuit of holiness and happiness, the less likely we will be on a path to regrets.
~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Always, always pursue happiness.
~ Chris Gardner
Every people should persue happiness in their own way.
~ Gregor Strasser
The Republic may not give wealth or happiness, she has not promised these. It is the freedom to pursue these, not their realization, we can claim.
~ Andrew Carnegie