219 Quotes About Pursuit

Love becomes imprudent only when it is impatient to enjoy; but when it is a matter of procuring the return of a happiness to which a baleful combination of circumstances has raised impediments, love sees and foresees all that the most subtle perspicacity can discover.

But these were days of self-fulfilment, where settling for something that was not quite your first choice of a life seemed weak-willed and ignoble. Somewhere, surrendering to what seemed to be your fate had changed from being dignified to being a sign of your own cowardice. There were times when the pressure to achieve happiness felt almost oppressive, as if happiness were something everybody should and could attain, and that any sort of compromise in its pursuit was somehow your fault.

By the time his vision had settled, the dwarf had disappeared into a maelstrom of churning muck. Butler decided not to attempt pursuit. Dying below ground was not very high on this *things to do* list. But there will be another day, fairy, he thought grimly. And there was to be. But that's another story.

A heroic woman does not help in pursuit of publicity. She lends a hand because she understands her role in society.

The hounds snap fierce at your heels. Turn toward Athens. I hear them pelting hard on you, I see black flesh and snake-hands coiling round a fruit of agonizing pain.

Nous poursuivons ce qui nous fuit, nous fuyons ce qui nous poursuit. "We pursue what flees from us, flee from what pursues us.

Without delayed gratification, there is no purposeful pursuit.

In pursuit of knowledge, every day something is acquired. In pursuit of wisdom, every day something is dropped.

You have to look inside, to pursuit spirituality.