Quotes About Pursuit

There's a Hasidic proverb: 'While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Persiguiendo la felicidad nos alejamos de la satisfacción

Lost in these imaginary illusions I forgot my destiny – that of the hunted.

Dormir es distraerse del universo, y la distracción es difícil para quien sabe que lo persiguen con espadas desnudas.

En busca de la tarde fui apurando en vano las calles. Ya estaban los zaguanes entorpecidos de sombra.

Hudson says that many times in his life he undertook the study of metaphysics, but happiness always interrupted him.

The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.

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.

To know all is an impossible dream; but woe unto him who dares not to learn all, and who does not know that, in order to know anything, one must learn eternally!

Happiness, they say, can't be ordered like a steak in a restaurant. Like love, its very essence is freedom. This is true. But like love, happiness can be wooed and won.

I was coming to realize that if you don't look for something, then you rarely find it.

People are like shadows: if you follow them, they run away from you; if you run away from them, they follow you.

The pursuit of excellence with unrestrained passion can lead to the accomplishment of wonders with unsurpassed joy.

This is essentially a people's contest…. It is a struggle for maintaining in the world that form and substance of government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men—to lift artificial weights from all shoulders—to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all—to afford all an unfettered start, and a fair chance, in the race of life.

Jon searched behind him and he

I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.

all he could hear was their running, fading footsteps.

Becoming Original is not the easiest path in the Pursuit of Happiness, but it leaves us perfectly poised for the Happiness of Pursuit.

This type of education is not designed to help students discover their passions, develop their strengths, or pursue their dreams.

My first care the following morning was, to devise some means of discovering the man in the grey cloak.

We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

This should tell you everything you need to know about guys. They only go after what they know they can get. We girls, on the other hand, aim really high. We take a leap...

Even before I wholly knew I was a lesbian, it was the lesbian in me who pursued that elusive configuration. And I believe it is the lesbian in every woman who is compelled by female energy, who gravitates toward strong women, who seeks literature that will express that energy and strength. It is the lesbian in us who drives us to feel imaginatively, render in language, grasp, the full connection between woman and woman.

Do not follow anyone else's opinion of your capabilities; find for yourself what you're passionate about and chase it!