Pursuit Of Happiness Quotes - Page 11

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

  Tunku Abdul Rahman

  Use, World, Trouble

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• While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

  Sarah Vowell

  Happiness, Believe, Long

  FaceBook post by Sarah Vowell from Jul 04, 2012

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• Olive Ann describes Sanna as 'a perfectionist and a worrier.' She is obsessed with the idea of finding happiness, and for her, as Olive ann wrote in her notes for the novel, 'happiness means being first with somebody, having perfect, loving children...The theme of Sanna is disillusionment,' Olive Ann wrote. 'Her life is the pursuit of happiness and perfection, but she finds happiness and perfection impossible to obtain-her idea of happiness is constant joy, no changes.

  Olive Ann Burns

  Children, Mean, Loving Life

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• 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

  Inspiration, Luxury, African American

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• What sets human beings apart from animals is not the pursuit of happiness, which occurs all across the natural world, but the pursuit of meaning, which is unique to humans.

  Roy Baumeister

  Animal, Unique, World

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• When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men's souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort, wealth and the pursuit of happiness in response to impulses at once awe-striking and irresistible, we learn that we are spirits, not animals.

  Winston Churchill

  Moving, Animal, Men

  Sir Winston Churchill (1993). “The Churchill War Papers: The Ever-Widening War 1941”, William Heinemann

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• The chief duty of governments, in so far as they are coercive, is to restrain those who would interfere with the inalienable rights of the individual, among which are the right to life, the right to liberty, the right to the pursuit of happiness and the right to worship God according to the dictates of ones conscience.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Rights, Government, Liberty

  William Jennings Bryan (1917). “Heart to Heart Appeals”

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• We have a long heritage of freedom that defines America. We believe there is a Creator who blessed us with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

  Todd Akin

  Happiness, Believe, Blessed

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• My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.

  Charles Saatchi

  Happiness, Pursuit, Aim

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• They told me I didn't understand the assignment, I told them they didn't understand life.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• When our founding fathers put their signatures on the Declaration of Independence, those 56 brave people, most of whom by the way were clergymen, they said that we had certain inalienable rights given to us by our creator, and among these life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, life being one of them. I still believe that.

  Mike Huckabee

  Father, Believe, Rights

  The Republican Presidential debate on Fox News Channel in Orlando, Fla., www.nytimes.com. October 21, 2007.

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• Philadelphia, the foundation of freedom, liberty and democracy, I still believe in the idea of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

  Michael Nutter

  Believe, Ideas, Philadelphia

  "Philly Mayor Michael Nutter Thinks Local At DNC". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 5, 2012.

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• the right to marry whoever one wishes is an elementary human right ... Even political rights, like the right to vote, and nearly all other rights enumerated in the Constitution, are secondary to the inalienable human rights to 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence; and to this category the right to home and marriage unquestionably belongs.

  Hannah Arendt

  Home, Rights, Political

  Hannah Arendt (2009). “Responsibility and Judgment”, p.203, Schocken

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

  David Hume

  Happiness, Uncertainty Of Life, Pursuit

  David Hume, Geoffrey Sayre-McCord “Moral Philosophy”, Hackett Publishing

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• any pursuit of happiness contrary to the common good is doomed to failure.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Happiness, Common, Pursuit

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• [Book's subtitle:] Designed as a beacon of light to guide women to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but which may be read by members of the sterner sect, without injury to themselves or the book.

  Marietta Holley

  Book, Light, Liberty

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• When I was growing up, I don't remember being told that America was created so that everyone could get rich. I remember being told it was about opportunity and the pursuit of happiness. Not happiness itself, but the pursuit.

  Martin Scorsese

  Growing Up, Opportunity, America

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• I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am not interested in the pursuit of positivity. I am interested in pursuing a truth, and the truth often seems to be not happiness but its opposite.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Positivity, Thinking, Opposites

  "Jamaica Kincaid Hates Happy Endings". Interview with Marilyn Berlin Snell, www.motherjones.com. September, 1997.

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• This country was founded upon the principle that we are all endowed with certain inalienable rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness - those rights are what make America great, and they belong to each and every one of us.

  Charles Rangel

  Country, Rights, America

  "The Struggle Continues for Civil Rights" by Rep. Charles Rangel, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 2, 2013.

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• Sex and commerce are fine things, but man cannot live by Viagra and the Dow Jones alone. A life led collecting things and experiences in pursuit of happiness is not necessarily a bad life, but it's not a good life either. Too often, the Democrats act like the Party of Lust, and the Republicans the Party of Greed. Both are deadly sins that eat at the soul.

  Rod Dreher

  Sex, Good Life, Party

  Rod Dreher (2010). “Crunchy Cons: The New Conservative Counterculture and Its Return to Roots”, p.12, Crown

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

  George Will

  Light, Littles, Baggage

  George F. Will (1978). “The pursuit of happiness, and other sobering thoughts”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Those who wander in the world avowedly and purposely in pursuit of happiness, who view every scene of present joy with an eye to what may succeed, certainly are more liable to disappointment, misfortune and unhappiness, than those who give up their fate to chance and take the goods and evils of fortune as they come, without making happiness their study, or misery their foresight.

  Fanny Burney

  Happiness, Disappointment, Giving Up

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.3747, Delphi Classics

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• It is not the function of the State to make men happy. They must make themselves happy in their own way, and at their own risk. The functions of the State lie entirely in the conditions or chances under which the pursuit of happiness is carried on.

  William Graham Sumner

  Lying, Men, Risk

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.31, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The pursuit of happiness is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence as a right of all Americans, as well as on the self-improvement shelves of every American bookstore. Yet the scientific evidence makes it seem unlikely that you can change your level of happiness in any sustainable way. It suggests that we each have a fixed range for happiness just as we do for weight. And just as dieters almost always regain the weight they lose, sad people don't become lastingly happy, and happy people don't become lastingly sad.

  Martin Seligman

  Self, People, Independence

  Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.8, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• "Pursuit of happiness" implies that we're running after happiness and happiness is running away from us. It also implies that happiness is somewhere out there, in material goods, which we have to pursue, whereas I believe that it is an illusion happiness is not out there, it is within us.

  Satish Kumar

  Running, Believe, Illusion

  Interview with Frank Lipman, www.drfranklipman.com. April 14, 2009.

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