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Quotes About Pursuit

Each human being has the right to seek out joy, joy being understood as something which makes one content - not necessarily that which makes others content.
~ Paulo Coelho
I really had spent my whole life playing soccer, and the fact that I was willing to give that up for theater, that told me I was moving in that direction.
~ Peter Jacobson
Even when we strive for perfection , life is nothing more than an attempt to achieve it through a series of greater or smaller imperfections.
~ Peter Prange
There are two kinds of suffering in this life. That which pursues us and that which we doggedly pursue.
~ Richard Paul Evans
The ultimate goal of those who blame workers for Wall Street's economic crisis is to unravel the fabric of our common life in pursuit of greed and power.
~ Richard Trumka
The real secret to a life of abundance is to stop spending your days searching for security and to start spending your time pursuing opportunity.
~ Robin Sharma
For more than 13,000 days on the run, my life was a soap opera.
~ Ronald Biggs
I was always interested in doing it, but I was so content with my life that I didn't really go after it.
~ Shannyn Sossamon
Never wedding, ever wooing, Still a lovelorn heart pursuing, Read you not the wrong you're doing In my cheek's pale hue? All my life with sorrow strewing; Wed or cease to woo.
~ Thomas Campbell
Both music and acting are huge parts of my life - it's all about balance.
~ Victoria Justice
Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all our unhappiness.
~ Joseph Addison
The pursuit of exotic beauty in such a life would have been like having a ball of tinfoil in your stomach, all that airy metal filling you up with hunger.
~ Laura Kasischke
I made an important decision, which was to pursue happiness. Rather than accept unhappiness. That's why I'm here, and it's great. I'm in a very good place in my life.
~ Laura Marling
It's a nice feeling to go out in the world and look for excellence - the best in man. My subject is very valid. It's about people, and about life.
~ LeRoy Neiman
The face of a woman, whatever be the force or extent of her mind, whatever be the importance of the object she pursues, is always an obstacle or a reason in the story of her life.
~ Madame de Stael
All I can do in the context of pursuing any sort of TV thing, and all I've done in the past, is offer your life at any given point in time to whatever situation you're in.
~ Marc Maron
I'm gonna hunt my life down and grab it.
~ Markus Zusak
It's the Kalkara. they're hunting.
~ John Flanagan
Then he had run, unarmed and bleeding, trusting to the maze like confusion of the ruins to evade the monster behind him.
~ John Flanagan
HALT AND WILL HAD BEEN TRAILING THE WARGALS FOR three days. The four heavy-bodied, brutish creatures, foot soldiers of the rebel warlord Morgarath, had been sighted passing through Redmont Fief, heading north. Once word reached the Ranger, he had set out to intercept them, accompanied by his young apprentice.
~ John Flanagan
Ze zagen eruit alsof ze door hellehonden op de hielen werden gezeten.' Ze zweeg even en haalde haar schouders op. 'Wat eigenlijk ook wel zo was,' voegde ze eraan toe.
~ John Flanagan
The sublimest caution arises from the discovery and pursuit of the commonplace, for when that proves to be false haven then all anchorage is lost. But even when true, it is an insecure base for further exploration.
~ John Fuller
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
~ John Gay
The text of 14:3–5 has played an important role in the larger chronological discussions. For example, Rashi argued that Pharaoh was prompted to pursue the Israelites because of their failure to return after three days (cf. 5:3). If this is the case, Rashi continued, "on the fifth and sixth day they pursued them . . . and, thus, this was the seventh day of Passover.
~ John H. Sailhamer