Quotes about pursuit
pursuit-of-happiness world misery
The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world. Malcolm Muggeridge
pursuit really-weird
I guess I'm in a trivial pursuit question. It's really weird. Kevin Youkilis
pursuit worthwhile
The pursuit of meaning, not happiness, is what makes life worthwhile. Tom Rath
pursuit-of-happiness self people
The pursuit of happiness is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence as a right of all Americans, as well as on the self-improvement shelves of every American bookstore. Yet the scientific evidence makes it seem unlikely that you can change your level of happiness in any sustainable way. It suggests that we each have a fixed range for happiness just as we do for weight. And just as dieters almost always regain the weight they lose, sad people don't become lastingly happy, and happy people don't become lastingly sad. Martin Seligman
pursuit-of-happiness america political
America's political system used to be about the pursuit of happiness. Now More and more of us want to stop chasing it and have it delivered. Jonah Goldberg
pursuit-of-happiness roots tolerance
Liberal relativism has its roots in the natural right tradition of tolerance or in the notion that everyone has a natural right to the pursuit of happiness as he understands happiness; but in itself it is a seminary of intolerance. Leo Strauss
pursuit-of-happiness constitution pursuit
The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We're all entitled to have the best we can Loretta Swit
pursuit-of-happiness emotional romantic-love
I had always been taught that the pursuit of happiness was my natural (even national) birthright. It is the emotional trademark of my culture to seek happiness. Not just any kind of happiness, either, but profound happiness, even soaring happiness. And what could possibly bring a person more soaring happiness than romantic love. Elizabeth Gilbert
pursuit-of-happiness men liberty
All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Thomas Jefferson
pursuit-of-happiness government people
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...
pursuit-of-happiness men interesting
The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish, and spirits must flow. There must be courage. There are no easy ruts to get into which lead to happiness. A man must become interesting to himself and must become actually expressive before he can be happy. Robert Henri
pursuit-of-happiness culture lasts
To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.' Once the reason is found, however, one becomes happy automatically. As we see, a human being is not one in pursuit of happiness but rather in search of a reason to become happy, last but not least, through actualizing the potential meaning inherent and dormant in a given situation. Viktor E. Frankl
pursuit-of-happiness men law
If [God] has made it a law in the nature of man to pursue his own happiness, He has left him free in the choice of place as well as mode, and we may safely call on the whole body of English jurists to produce the map on which nature has traced for each individual the geographical line which she forbids him to cross in pursuit of happiness.
pursuit-of-happiness discovery funeral
There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy. Joyce Grenfell
pursuit-of-happiness liberty fiber
The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the pursuit of pleasure with a consequent general softening of the fibers of will, intelligence, spirit. Whittaker Chambers
pursuit-of-happiness simple giving
Simple morality dictates that unless and until someone can prove the unborn human is not alive, we must give it the benefit of the doubt and assume it is (alive). And, thus, it should be entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Ronald Reagan
pursuit centre humans
To inquire and to create; these are the grand centres around which all human pursuits revolve, or at least to these objects do they all more or less directly refer. Wilhelm von Humboldt
pursuit-of-happiness government rights
The chief duty of governments, in so far as they are coercive, is to restrain those who would interfere with the inalienable rights of the individual, among which are the right to life, the right to liberty, the right to the pursuit of happiness and the right to worship God according to the dictates of ones conscience. William Jennings Bryan
pursuit-of-happiness thinking play
I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness. William Weld