happiness pursuit Quotes

Not to decide is to decide. Letting something go until it 'decides itself' is Life by Default. You don't want to live that way. So choose. Choose right now. Stop worrying about what you can 'lose' or how you can 'win' and just follow your joy. Where does your joy say you should go?

It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.

The question that faces every man born into this world is not what should be his purpose, which he should set about to achieve, but just what to do with life? The answer, that he should order his life so that he can find the greatest happiness in it, is more a practical question, similar to that of how a man should spend his weekend, then a metaphysical proposition as to what is the mystic purpose of his life in the scheme of the universe.

The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It's not in the Bill of Rights.

That cotton trade was almost the deal breaker for me. It was at that point that I said, “Mr. Stupid, why risk everything on one trade? Why not make your life a pursuit of happiness rather than pain?

Forget purpose. It’s okay to be happy without one. The quest for a single purpose has ruined many lives.

The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness.

There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness.

The pursuit of happiness … calls for the institution of government to regulate and adjust the collisions and passions of society incident to the existence of a civil society.

Life consists of nothing more than the happiness we can get out of it.

I don't trip on that much. I just like to enjoy life and be happy.

I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.

The Pursuit of Happiness: It sure seems to like a good chase, doesn't it?

Happy people learn that happiness, like sweat, is a by-product of activity.

Now, when ordinary people attempt to find happiness, I am not sure whether the happiness is really happiness or not. I study what ordinary people do to find happiness, what they struggle for, rushing about apparently unable to stop.

… it [liberty] denotes not merely freedom from bodily restraint, but also the right of the individual to engage in any of the common occupations of life, to acquire useful knowledge, to marry, establish a home, bring up children, to worship God according to the dictates of one's own conscience and generally, to enjoy those privileges long recognized in common law as essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men.

It's written into the Constitution that you're allowed to pursue happiness. In England it would be considered a frivolous objective.

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

My father's only advice is to 'do what makes you happy,' and I follow it religiously.

Luxury is...to be able to take control of one's life, health, and the pursuit of happiness in a way that is joyful.

The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.

Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims.