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I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.
Don't marry so you can stop pursuing women. Marry so you can perfect the pursuit of ONE woman for a lifetime.
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is part of our constitutional rights and it belongs to everybody.
Twenty years from now if there is some obscure Trivial Pursuit question, I am confident I will be the answer.
I feel that I am entitled to trample all other considerations into the dirt in my pursuit of a satisfying pun.
Whatever pursuit you undertake, the requirements should start with a love of what it is that you are pursuing.
Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
I look forward to working across the aisle in pursuit of our common goal to get Kansas' fiscal house in order.
Education must be a lifelong pursuit. The person who doesn't read is not better off than the person who can't.
Shimon Peres was the greatest living example of an unshakable belief in the pursuit of peace against all odds.
The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and now.
For me, football is a quest. Quests entail overcoming hardship, trials of adversity in the pursuit of true joy.
Obama, in pursuit of power, has been as greedy and irresponsible as any Wall Street tycoon in pursuit of money.
Where there is no desire or pursuits, there is no wholeness. But there are satisfying lesser states, fragments.
If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit.
Character acting is a much braver pursuit than a guy who runs around and intermittently clenches his jaw muscles.
For me, music is just one road. I dont have a specific pursuit; generally. I just try to be more aware of myself.
Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
Only in Washington can the pursuit of a conservative agenda, with centrist policies, be depicted as liberal reform.
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped.
You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right - constitutional right.
The Chinese people are a great people; they are industrious and brave, and they never pause in pursuit of progress.
As we grow older and mature in each incarnation, we are drawn back to samskaras, to previous interests and pursuits.
Weigh risk carefully, and once you decide a risk is manageable and necessary in the pursuit of your dreams, take it.
I'm always excited about music, but having spent so much time in its pursuit - well, my musical life is complicated.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
Much as we don't condone impunity, if pursuit for justice was in conflict with pursuit for peace, peace must prevail.
The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression.
Becoming Christlike is a lifetime pursuit and very often involves growth and change that is slow, almost imperceptible.
I believe that the pursuit of truth and right ideas through honest debate and rigorous argument is a noble undertaking.
It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do.
Democracy is the common pursuit of mankind, and all countries must earnestly protect the democratic rights of the people.
Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit.
For many, many people, getting married is one of the most important things they will ever do in the pursuit of happiness.
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.
Achievement happens when we pursue and attain what we want. Success comes when we are in clear pursuit of Why we want it.
Everything's relative. I don't think any new pursuit will be as difficult as trying to break into wrestling 25 years ago.
It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth.
Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.
There will be many obstacles in the pursuit of your dreams. I had long hours of training, balancing studies and badminton.
Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.
I hate how spiritual formation gets positioned as an optional pursuit for a small special interest group within the church.
The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.
History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated.
There's a lot of bands that blow up quickly, but then they die quickly. Longevity is the healthy thing; that's the pursuit.
One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it.
It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.