Top 1200 Pursuit Of Happiness Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I fly in dreams, I know it is my privilege, I do not recall a single situation in dreams when I was unable to fly. To execute every sort of curve and angle with a light impulse, a flying mathematics - that is so distinct a happiness that it has permanently suffused my basic sense of happiness.

Happiness is not in things; happiness is in you.

When the pursuit of natural harmony is a shared journey, great heights can be attained.

I believe there is one Supreme most perfect being. [...] I believe He is pleased and delights in the happiness of those He has created; and since without virtue man can have no happiness in this world, I firmly believe He delights to see me virtuous.

I wouldn't say money can buy happiness. Happiness starts with yourself. Money can buy a smile, though.

One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.

If indeed the qualities such as love, patience, tolerance, and forgiveness are what happiness consists in, and if it is also true that compassion, defined as concern for others, is both the source and the fruit of these qualities, then the more we are compassionate, the more we provide for our own happiness.

The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and now.

One of the advantages of being born in an affluent society is that if one has any intelligence at all, one will realize that having more and more won't solve the problem, and happiness does not lie in possessions, or even relationships: The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside.

I remember one morning getting up at dawn, there was such a sense of possibility. You know, that feeling? And I remember thinking to myself: So, this is the beginning of happiness. This is where it starts. And of course there will always be more. It never occurred to me it wasn't the beginning. It was happiness. It was the moment. Right then.

Once more I realized to what an extent earthly happiness is made to the measure of man. It is not a rare bird which we must pursue at one moment in heaven, at the next in our minds. Happiness is a domestic bird found in our own courtyards.

We have nothing to do, but to choose what is right, to be steady in the pursuit of it, and leave the issue to Providence.

The necessary thing for anyone to be happy and contented as long as he lives is working for the ones who will come after him rather than working for himself... One can reach the true delight and happiness in the life only by working for the existence, honor, and happiness of the future generations.

Composing is what drives me; it's not the pursuit of fame. My songs are like pages in a diary.

Happiness of heart can never be measured out and bundled up, it's intangible. We keep running after it, grasping for it, and the heat of our running so seldom brings it closer. But now and then there may be a moment. We look at something and know it is good and beautiful. Those moments are happiness.

Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative

After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.

If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular.

The pursuit of an extreme Brexit cannot come at the cost of peace in Northern Ireland.

Whatever pursuit you undertake, the requirements should start with a love of what it is that you are pursuing.

The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness and misery. Happiness is never better exhibited than by young animals, such as puppies, kittens, lambs, &c., when playing together, like our own children.

Unless you're willing to fail miserably in the pursuit of your dreams, you'll never make it.

The pursuit of balance can create imbalance because sometimes something is true.

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

We all must die. There is no better way to do so than in the pursuit of something you love.

A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success.

We are all doomed to seek our own happiness; we can't help ourselves. We are all, the cruel and the gentle alike, condemned to seeking that happiness in the dark. We use our need as the blind use a walking stick, to determine the safety of every forward step.

The majority of human beings do not turn to God because they have not enough happiness but because happiness is not enough.

Here's one of the great challenges of life. Being happy with what you have while in pursuit of what you want.

Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.

Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness

Happiness flourishes where there is happiness...

Happiness not only needs no justification, but it is also the only final test of whether what I am doing is right for me. Only of course happiness is not the same as pleasure; it includes the pain of losing as well as the pleasure of finding.

The happiness for which our souls ache is one undisturbed by success or failure, one which will root deeply inside us and give inward relaxation, peace, and contentment, no matter what the surface problems may be. That kind of happiness stands in need on no outward stimulus.

An unshared happiness is not happiness.

If you devote yourself entirely to a pursuit, there is no way you cannot find beauty and fulfillment.

If you're going to break up, it reaches a point where whatever is happening is not working and it all comes to a head. I think that's a tough realization and it's hard to communicate sometimes. You just have to think about your happiness and the other person's happiness, and communicate really honestly.

I have a God-given right to pursue happiness, and happiness to me is killing things, skinning them, plucking them, and then having a good meal. What makes me happy is going out and blowing a duck's head off.

I've pursued dreams and achieved them, but I don't think anybody should think their life is incomplete if they don't follow some dream. Happiness doesn't come from achievements, or money, or any sort of treasure. Happiness is a frame of mind, not a destination. It's appreciating what you've got and building relationships with those around you.

Happiness doesn't come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

I feel that the single-minded pursuit of wealth has led the middle classes into a crisis.

What is science but the pursuit of the truth? What is Buddhism but 2500 years of observation as to the nature of mind?

The pursuit of holiness must be anchored in the grace of God; otherwise it is doomed to failure

A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success

Neither the adventure of goodness nor the pursuit of righteousness gets headlines.

I suppose the pursuit of fashion has always carried a price, monetary or otherwise.

From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.

True happiness cannot be found in things that change and pass away. Pleasure and pain alternate inexorably. Happiness comes from the Self and can be found in the Self only. Find your real Self and all else will come with it.

Happiness is not something you achieve. It's not something you do or someplace you get to. Happiness is something you inhabit.

Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power, culture corrects the theory of success.

Happiness is a chance to talk to a friend, to hear good music, to have a good glass of wine. Happiness is a chance to be myself and to find people with whom I agree or who I don't agree but I can learn something.

Over the past year I'vediscovered if you keep on giving and giving, you end up losing yourself. I think that learning to give and receive is the trick. Perfect happiness is also a feeling, and the most amazing thing is that we were all born with the gift to make it happen in a heartbeat. Putting on certainmusic, reading something can make us feel a certain way. I think the key to happiness is allowing ourselves to not feel bad or guilty for feeling it, and letting it be contagious. And to not be dependent on other people to create your own happiness.

I have been given a unique role to play on this earth: given to me by a life filled with sickness, ill-starred circumstances and my profession as an artist. It is a life that contains nothing that resembles happiness, and moreover does not even desire happiness.

The happiness promised us in Christ does not consist in outward advantages-such as leading a joyous and peaceful life, having rich possessions, being safe from all harm, and abounding with delights such as the flesh commonly longs after. No, our happiness belongs to the heavenly life!

I make an idol of my moral consciousness. My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry.

Although the universe is under no obligation to make sense, students in pursuit of a Ph. D. are.

Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

Too many Americans have twisted the sensible right to pursue happiness into the delusion that we are entitled to a guarantee of happiness. If we don't get exactly what we want, we assume someone must be violating our rights. We're no longer willing to write off some of life's disappointments to simple bad luck.

I've known great happiness in my life along with great darkness, and a question that has repeatedly entered my poetry has been, how do we use the direct experience of happiness that may be given us, whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?