Quotes About Pursuit

Beautiful makes you come back for more. It makes you ask questions. It's vast, unknowable, and magnificent. That's part of its power. It makes you think about the experience it's giving you. That's when I knew what I wanted. I've been chasing it ever since.

dianemoorewriter.com February 11, 2015 · From Love Thy Neighbor" On journalism and news purists as well as why I pursued print instead of TV journalism/news at the No. 1 journalism school in the country: news reporters are willing to take risks "so that people can base their lives on a foundation of truth not lies. That's why I do it -- to be the one responsible voice in the crowd." Page 105' "Love Thy Neighbor

Chasing down international killers without a firearm is easier than facing my feelings for you.

Epicurus, saw the pursuit of happiness as life's ultimate goal: that Epicurean affirmation is echoed in the American Declaration of Independence, curiously omitting the original qualification that happiness consists in the attainment of inner tranquillity.

Our nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to protecting the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness of the individual, not of the collective or groups of special interests. The miracle of the Constitution is the simple genius of limited government and its singular devotion to protecting individual liberty.

I prefer trying over talking.

If we are to be blessed, we must pursue the Giver of blessings.

It took him years to realize it was the flirtation and admiration he craved, not the actual conquest.

The direct pursuit of happiness is a recipe for an unhappy life.

Calling all cars, calling all cars. Be on the lookout for a stolen bank, approximately eleven feet tall, blue and white...

A (catch) net (is) no good unless the person to be caught (wants) to be caught.

When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit.

In this life we get only those things for which we hunt, for which we strive, and for which we are willing to sacrifice.

You don't become happy by pursuing happiness. You become happy by living a life that means something.

I will never be satisfied. Life is one constant search for the betterment for me.

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

You run and you run to catch up to the sun but it's sinking, racing around to come up behind you again.

This is your life. Now go make it the one you've always wanted.

This search for happiness can knock us out of sync with God. As the life of Jesus makes clear, keeping in sync with God is about obedience. Any other pursuit will get in the way.

No matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself

Each day I move toward that which I do not understand. The result is a continuous accidental learning which constantly shapes my life.

In life, there are no shortcuts to joy. Anything that is worth pursuing requires us to suffer just a little bit.

Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.

Life is only meaningful when we are striving for a goal .