Pursuit Quotes
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“Everything you want in life is a relationship away.”
― Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
― Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
“Chasing a person doesn’t give you value or build values in you. You earn your value by chasing morality and practicing dignity.”
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“To love someone with all of your heart requires reaching them where they are with the only words they can understand.”
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“It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.”
― Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
― Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
“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.”
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“Let us stop wracking our brains with vain and futile stories but keep it loosey-goosey without missing a beat of our life in our pursuit for authenticity.( "If he doesn't play ball")”
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“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.”
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“An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.”
― The Letters of the Younger Pliny
― The Letters of the Younger Pliny
“They're gone. I let them chase me. I led them like a sunbeam and vanished like a shadow.”
― Plain Kate
― Plain Kate
“Among the strange things of this world, nothing seems more strange than that men pursuing happiness should knowingly quit the right and take a wrong road, and frequently do what their judgments neither approve nor prefer.”
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“Science is an organized pursuit of triviality.
Art is a casual pursuit of significance.
Let's keep it in perspective.”
― The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
Art is a casual pursuit of significance.
Let's keep it in perspective.”
― The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
“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 Sad Truth About Happiness
― The Sad Truth About Happiness
“Bond sat for a moment frozen to his chair. Suddenly, there flashed unwanted into his mind that most sinister line in poetry: 'They reckon ill who leave me out. When me they fly, I am the wings.”
― Diamonds Are Forever
― Diamonds Are Forever
“If you are made for flight, intended for it,
you had better find a pursuer, fast.
Otherwise, all that fleeing is going nowhere.”
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you had better find a pursuer, fast.
Otherwise, all that fleeing is going nowhere.”
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“She could hear the rattle of hooves on stone evolve into a thunder of pursuit.”
― The Gray Wolf Throne
― The Gray Wolf Throne
“Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I have lived, have forced me to take a part in resisting them, and to commit myself on the boisterous ocean of political passions.”
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
“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.”
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“Engage in no pursuit in which you cannot look up unto God, and say, 'Bless me in this, my Father!”
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“That fire in your belly is there for a reason: do not ignore it, rather, let it burn.”
― JUST GO AFTER: Three Magical Words That Make Things Happen!
― JUST GO AFTER: Three Magical Words That Make Things Happen!
“In the quiet of the early morning, before the world stirs, there lies a sacred space where dreams merge with reality, and the potential of the day is limitless. It’s in this stillness that you can find the courage to pursue what truly sets your soul on fire.”
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“In his book Footsteps (1985), Richard Holmes compared the biographer's act to 'a kind of pursuit, a tracking of the physical trail of someone's path through the past'. What Holmes realized in the course of his own pursuits was that the footstepping biographer never actually reached his subject; only encountered at best the second-order suggestions of their earlier presence: glimpses of afterglow, retinal ghosts, psychic gossamer. 'You would never catch them,' cautioned Holmes, 'no, you would never quite catch them...”
― The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
― The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
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