Quotes About Pursuit

A young man who doesn't have the foresight to seek out the girl he wants to be with and actively pursue her, doesn't deserve her.

The essence of romantic love is not the company of a lover but the pursuit.

All of my works are steps on my journey, a struggle for truth that I have waged with pen, canvas, and materials. Overhead is a distant, radiant star, and the more I stretch to reach it, the further it recedes. But by the power of my spirit and my single-hearted pursuit of the path, I have clawed my way through the labyrinthine confusion of the world of people in an unstinting effort to approach even one step closer to the realm of the soul.

For years I have had the belief that all my questions will be answered by the books I'm reading. Books, however, only lead to other books.

Justice, justice, shall you pursue," commands the Torah. The rabbis ask: Why the repetition of the word "justice"? My answer has been shaped by our conflict: Sometimes, the pursuit of justice means fulfilling two claims to justice, even when they clash.

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, wealth may seek us; but wisdom must be sought.

to love is both to seek and to be sought

Each of us has an inner battle. We fight for happiness, and to stay alive. We fight to pursue our dreams.

If I identify happiness with fleeting pleasant sensations, and crave to experience more and more of them, I have no choice but to pursue them constantly.

the real root of suffering is this never-ending and pointless pursuit of ephemeral feelings, which causes us to be in a constant state of tension, restlessness and dissatisfaction.

here is that line from the American Declaration of Independence translated into biological terms: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men evolved differently, that they are born with certain mutable characteristics, and that among these are life and the pursuit of pleasure.

So if I want to experience pleasant feelings, I have to constantly chase them, while driving away the unpleasant feelings. Even if I succeed, I immediately have to start all over again, without ever getting any lasting reward for my troubles.

Like an arrow sprung from a bow Betty flashed past the Colonel and out on the green. Scarcely ten of the long hundred yards had been covered by her flying feet when a roar of angry shouts and yells warned Betty that the keen-eyed savages saw the bag of powder and now knew they had been deceived by a girl.

and it seemed to me—Oh, I don't know! As if it held all the things I've always tried to find in everything else.

Your life has a limit, but knowledge has none. If you use what is limited to pursue what has no limit, you will be in danger.

In the world everyone knows enough to pursue what he does not know, but no one knows enough to pursue what he already knows. Everyone knows enough to condemn what he takes to be no good, but no one knows enough to condemn what he has already taken to be good.

Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is pursuing, but the thing that it is pursuing cannot be put into words and handed down.

With humility, we pursue God and delight to know Him. We increasingly realize that He is our most valuable treasure, and our hearts sing with gratitude

What if culture itself is nothing but a halt, a break, a respite, in the pursuit of barbarity?

The police shall never catch me, because I have been too clever for them.

Happiness is not in wealth or splendor, but in passion, perception, and pursuit.

It might be a wild-goose chase." "I am quite fond of geese, myself," Mikhail said.

When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.

whatever comes easily to us we turn away from, but that which slips away from us we will pursue to the ends of the earth.