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As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves. — Andrew Delbanco

When we reflect on the shortness and uncertainty of life, how despicable seem all our pursuits of happiness. — David Hume

The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity. — Jesse Ventura

Happiness is the most tired word in any language. — Erol Ozan

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities. — Aldous Huxley

People, to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, Bob Burgess, after the tall man with the tasseled scarf turned down a side — Elizabeth Strout

For me, the only sources of moral values are the pursuit of understanding and the pursuit of happiness. — Matthew Stewart

If America is the pursuit of happiness, the best way to pursue happiness is to help other people. — George Lucas

Happiness is a reality of NOW, it not not something that you pursue in the future. Don't pursue happiness, but EXUDE happiness. — Farshad Asl

Success is a journey toward the relentless pursuit of perfection but not a destination. — Debasish Mridha

The pursuit of happiness becomes the source of our unhappiness. — Dan Harris

Waking up is not a selfish pursuit of happiness, it is a revolutionary stance, from the inside out, for the benefit of all beings in existence. — Noah Levine

The endless pursuit of new life styles or academic degrees and recognition is not the way to priestly happiness. — Catherine De Hueck Doherty

It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness. — Viktor E. Frankl

I'm on the pursuit of happiness and I know, everything that shines ain't always gonna be gold. But I'll be fine once I get it, I'll be good. — Kid Cudi

The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments. — Ayn Rand

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit. — Denis Waitley

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

The pursuit of meaning, not happiness, is what makes life worthwhile. — Tom Rath

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. — C.P. Snow

Life is all about conflict. The pursuit of happiness - that's life, not the achievement. It's all about the journey, my friend. — Michael J. Sullivan

Joy is realized as the natural by-product of the
passionate pursuit of something other than
happiness. — Marc Gafni

Modern Americans travel light, with little philosophic baggage other than a fervent belief in their right to the pursuit of happiness. — George Will

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

Thomas Jefferson was a real poet. He was slick with that 'pursuit' of happiness because the 'pursuit' puts it back on you. — Will Smith

Don't let the pursuit of happiness stop you from being happy right here, right now. — Karen Salmansohn

It is the pursuit of happiness that makes people unhappy. — Piero Scaruffi

You may find that the pursuit of happiness is at times a lonely road. Don't give up. Stay the course! — K.J. Kilton

Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty. — George Bernard Shaw

My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit. — Charles Saatchi

Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness. — Thomas Jefferson

Life's value is lost when the pursuit of money becomes the goal as opposed to the pursuit of true happiness. — Steven Redhead

You know that the pursuit of worldly things does not bring contentment. Find satisfaction in becoming a worker among the Lord's workers — Binye Vincent

Reading is by far the most successful pursuit of happiness. — John Grisham

Increasingly we confused the pursuit of happiness with the pursuit of pleasure. — Rick Perlstein

However, as pursuit of happiness morphed into pursuit of material, all of the promises became compromised. So what went wrong? How did this happen? — Bruce H. Lipton

Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification. — Ayn Rand

With all respect to Mr. Jefferson, I would put the pursuit of wisdom ahead of the pursuit of happiness. — Edmund Fuller

The pursuit of prosperity shouldn't stop you from the pursuit of happiness. — Richie Norton

There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy. — Joyce Grenfell

Don't lose your happiness on the pursuit for more — Mike Stud

The pursuit of happiness seems worthwhile only because of the chase. You love it only if you don't realize you're never going to catch up. — Bryan Way

Any pursuit of happiness contrary to the common good is doomed to failure. — Alice Hegan Rice

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

To guarantee the individual maximum freedom within a social frame of minimal laws ensures - if not happiness - its hopeful pursuit. — John Updike

There is something very unique in American iconography about this notion of the pursuit of happiness. — David Henry Hwang

It is the pursuit of happiness that brings us happiness, and not the happiness achieved. — Jack White

Self-denial in the pursuit of purpose generates true pleasure while self-indulgence in the pursuit of pleasure generates true misery. — Orrin Woodward

Discipleship is the pursuit of holiness and happiness. It is the path to our best and happiest self. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

It could be said of him that while others chased the mirage of happiness, he was happy with being content. — Neel Mukherjee

The pursuit of happiness is the source of all unhappiness. — Lulu

It's a great game - the pursuit of happiness. — Eugene O'Neill

It's the pursuit of love and happiness that is the driving force of the romantic novel. — Susanna Kearsley

[If] a man doesn't have a job or an income, he has neither life nor liberty nor the possibility for the pursuit of happiness. He merely exists. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit. — Harriet Martineau

Where America was founded on life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, Sharia was founded on death, slavery, and the pursuit of power. — Nick Adams

The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. — Frank Norris

I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure. — Lawana Blackwell

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

Happiness is the little moments of joy you give yourself every single day, living a life in con stant pursuit of happy and joyous moments. — Malti Bhojwani

But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. — Ayn Rand

The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We're all entitled to have the best we can. — Loretta Swit

I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy. — Parker Palmer

For many, many people, getting married is one of the most important things they will ever do in the pursuit of happiness. — Marianne Williamson

It is proved by surveys that happiness does not come from love, wealth, or power but the pursuit of attainable goals. — Helen Fielding

Life in this world is short. Let us make use of our lives in the pursuit of happiness and not trouble. — Tunku Abdul Rahman

America's political system used to be about the pursuit of happiness. Now More and more of us want to stop chasing it and have it delivered. — Jonah Goldberg

I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness. — Gabrielle Anwar

Pursuit of happiness is like chasing a moving target - a target stuck to the belly of a frolicsome kangaroo. — Majid Kazmi

The direct pursuit of happiness is a recipe for an unhappy life. — Donald Campbell

The anti-mind is the anti-life. — Ayn Rand

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

To catch you're elusive dreams you must be prepared to track it to the ends of the earth. Let nothing stop you're pursuit of dreams. — Truth Devour

All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their own happiness or satisfaction — Dalai Lama XIV

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness ... but only when you pay your taxes? That means your freedom is rented, leased, & not unalienable. — Steve Maraboli

The right to "liberty" and "pursuit" of happiness is incompatible with a government that makes choices for you. — A.E. Samaan

The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. — Benjamin Franklin

Our predicament is not the difficulty of attaining happiness, but the difficult of avoiding the misery to which the pursuit of happiness exposes us. — Michael Joseph Oakeshott

To attain real happiness, humans need to slow down the pursuit of pleasant sensations, not accelerate it. — Yuval Noah Harari

And like anyone who is in valiant pursuit of dreams, the ups and downs come and go, but the dream lives in the heart forever. — Chris Michaels

As with the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of truth is itself gratifying whereas the consummation often turns out to be elusive. — Richard Hofstadter

We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government. — Paul Ryan

Life, Love, and the Goddamn Pursuit of Happiness. — Tiffanie DeBartolo

The pursuit of joy is the purpose of life. — Steven Redhead

The three basic material rights
continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness. — David Brin

A process of reason is a process of constant choice in answer to the question: True or False? - Right or Wrong? — Ayn Rand