Quotes About Pursuit

Some people pursue unhappiness because happiness is too mild a sensation.

I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.

I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

I have sought happiness through many ages and not found it.

Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.

Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness.

I have to find a place for my own. I have to search for my own happiness.

Happiness pursued eludes, happiness given returns.

It is the pursuit of happiness that makes people unhappy.

It is a sad thing to want for happiness, but it is a terrible thing to see another groping about blindly for it, when it is almost within the grasp.

Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.

Happiness is always the inaccessible castle which sinks in ruin when we set foot on it.

Happiness lies not in happiness but only in the attempt to achieve it.

How can you tell somebody who is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?

The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.

Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy.

Fun comes hard - like, alas, its prarens, pleasure and happiness, whom we have to pursue.

There are no short and easy paths to a long and lasting happiness.

We must be doing something to be happy.

The most fundamental law of tragedy is that the moments of greatest happiness are the hardest to attain.

My happiness is marred only by my failure to attain it.

The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

I've always had lots of friends who share my perspective - I guess you could say that I'm a guy who aggressively pursues his happiness.

Happiness is the most elusive thing for human beings to find.