Pursuit Quotes - Page 3

Despite all of our incessant tinkering, we can’t manufacture the things we most desperately need. And if perchance we do, they will never be more than pathetically emaciated facsimiles that will leave us emaciated. And until we finally realize that we can only ‘find’ these things, we will never sense any compulsion to ‘find’ God.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

I do not fear the darkness. It fears me.

Pursuit of contentment is not the pursuit of an elusive tomorrow; it is the celebration of today. In that, it is the pursuit to end all pursuits.

I believe our clever young man has intuited that while only the pursuit of happiness is promised to all Americans, unhappiness is guaranteed for many.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

Your most important “want” should be the one you can control!

Shannon L. Alder

I used to float along in all of this, like a leaf on a coursing stream, but i am heavier now, less easily moved, more resolute and steadfast. I am no longer in pursuit of happiness. As I stand here at my front door, key in hand, I think it is just possible that happiness, at least for now, today, this hour, may be in pursuit of me.

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Success is the relentless pursuit of joy.

Amy Leigh Mercree

In the pursuit of wholeness, there will surely be challenges but you need to keep going.

If we delight in God, He shall give us our hearts desires.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Engage in no pursuit in which you cannot look up unto God, and say, 'Bless me in this, my Father!

To love someone with all of your heart requires reaching them where they are with the only words they can understand.

Shannon L. Alder

Let people be the pursuits of happiness, you be the pursuit of perfection.