Life in this world is short. Let us make use of our lives in the pursuit of happiness and not trouble.
— Tunku Abdul Rahman
Exciting Happiness Pursuit quotations
Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
...Fo r Love not only annihilates our fear of meaninglessness but empowers us to seek the happiness of others. And this indeed is our greatest happiness.
I'm on the pursuit of happiness, and I know, Everything that shine ain't always gonna be gold, Hey, I'll be fine once I get it, I'll be good...
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on.
It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfilment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
To me, that's the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That's the basic, ultimate freedom.
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.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
All suffering is caused by ignorance.
People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction.
The pursuit of happiness is a matter of choice.
..it is a positive attitude we choose to express. It is not a gift delivered to our door each morning, nor does it come through the window. And it is certain that our circumstances are not the things that make us joyful. If we wait for them to get just right, we will never laugh again.
Don't ever let someone tell you you can't do something.
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
Make no mistake; the American Revolution was not fought to obtain freedom, but to preserve the liberties that Americans already had as colonials. Independence was no conscious goal, secretly nurtured in cellar or jungle by bearded conspirators, but a reluctant last resort, to preserve "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men.
There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.
Happiness is a form of courage.
As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves.
The world is your oyster. It's up to you to find the pearls.
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
The pursuit of happiness is the source of all unhappiness.
Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being.
I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.
If you want something, go get it. Period.
Walk that walk and go forward all the time.
Don't just talk that talk, walk it and go forward. Also, the walk didn't have to be long strides; baby steps counted too. Go forward.
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.
If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience.
Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.
Happiness is not the endless pursuit of pleasant experiences - that sounds more like a recipe for exhaustion - but a way of being that results from cultivating a benevolent mind, emotional balance, inner freedom, inner peace, and wisdom. Each of these qualities is a skill that can be enhanced through training the mind.
In our society it is murder, psychologically, to deprive a man of a job or an income. You are in substance saying to that man that he has no right to exist. You are in a real way depriving him of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, denying in his case the very creed of his society.
Liberty and equality, spontaneity and security, happiness and knowledge, mercy and justice - all these are ultimate human values, sought for themselves alone; yet when they are incompatible, they cannot all be attained, choices must be made, sometimes tragic losses accepted in the pursuit of some preferred ultimate end.
I don't think happiness is necessarily the reason we're here.
I think we're here to learn and evolve, and the pursuit of knowledge is what alleviates the pain of being human.
The pursuit of individual happiness within those limits prescribed by social conditions, is the first requisite to the attainment of the greatest general happiness.