175 Quotes About Pursuit-of-happiness




  • Author S.W. Southwick
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    If the universe comes melting down around you in searing flames and yet you remain alive...If all the minds of the world bind themselves to insanity and yet you retain your intellectual liberty...If darkness dissolves the dreams of everyone you know leaving not even a glint of inspiration...Look within, and pursue your own happiness, pursue it to the f*cking glorious end.

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  • Author Viet Thanh Nguyen
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    Now a guarantee of happiness—that's a great deal. But a guarantee to be allowed to pursue the jackpot of happiness? Merely an opportunity to buy a lottery ticket. Someone would surely win millions, but millions would surely pay for it.

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  • Author Karl Marlantes
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    A Frenchman, Alexis de Tocqueville, came to America more than a century ago and made some astute observations about the American way. He said that we have a misleading idea at the very head of our Constitution: the pursuit of happiness. One can not pursue happiness; if he does he obscures it. If he will proceed with the human task of life, the relocation of the center of gravity of the personality to something greater outside itself, happiness will be the outcome.

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