#pursuit

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half. ↗

— Plato

#being #country #following #half #instead

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#different #manhood #only #our #proportioned

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. ↗

— James Hillman

#drop #happiness #happy #here #i

Saddam Hussein has been tenacious in his pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and, unless he is removed from power, he will eventually harm our nation and our allies. Every moment we delay allows him to grow stronger. ↗

— Richard Shelby

#allows #been #delay #destruction #eventually

Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and then insisting that the only way to have a viable economy is to make things for people to buy so they’ll have jobs and get enough money to buy things. ↗

— Philip Slater

#commercialism #economy #endless-circles #failed-systems #greed

There is nothing crazy about a dream. There is nothing crazy about pursuing your dreams. ↗

— Destin Bays

#dreams #pursuit-of-happiness #true-love-in-time #dreams

I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection. ↗

— Andrew Vachss

#cannot #i #perfection #pursuit

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#even #free #never #pursuit #set

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#cuts #down #eager #every #fruit

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#cannot #choose #continue #day #deepest