#pursuit

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#fulfillment #happiness #pursuit #pursuit of happiness

If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

#back #blind #certainly #considerations #done

If, however, you have richer pursuits in mind and know that no woman should be judged by how she looks - that everything she brings to the party is more important than the size of her arse - then refuse to be sucked into the never ending whirligig of self-doubting, self-hating madness that is stop-start dieting and crazy new exercise regimes. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#brings #crazy #dieting #ending #everything

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#aspires #believes #dangerous #example #greater

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#country #cross country #gallop #highbrow #his

Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#become #cares #employment #feelings #little

I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. ↗

— Victoria Woodhull

#come #declare #entitled #happiness #i

Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#engage #ideas #instead #like #live

A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#necessary #nothing #pursuit #rejection #step

I usually doze off between 7:30 and 9 p.m. while putting my baby to sleep. Then I suddenly wake up remembering I'm an adult with no bedtime. I spend the next four hours catching up on reading, e-mails, and other adult pursuits until I collapse for good until sunrise. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#baby #bedtime #between #catching #collapse