Best Pursuit Of Happiness Quotes

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness.

People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.

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.

The pursuit of happiness is the source of all unhappiness.

The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We’re all entitled to have the best we can

Liberal relativism has its roots in the natural right tradition of tolerance or in the notion that everyone has a natural right to the pursuit of happiness as he understands happiness; but in itself it is a seminary of intolerance.

It wouldn’t take us long to discover the substance of that dream. It is found in those majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, words lifted to cosmic proportions: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by God, Creator, with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. This is a dream. It’s a great dream.

To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to ‘be happy.’ But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to ‘be happy.’ Once the reason is found, however, one becomes happy automatically. As we see, a human being is not one in pursuit of happiness but rather in search of a reason to become happy, last but not least, through actualizing the potential meaning inherent and dormant in a given situation.

Those self-evident principles of life and liberty, pursuit of happiness, they’re not self-executing. They require each of us to get engaged. And what Barack Obama is really concerned about is to ensure that the American people appreciate their power to influence the democracy.

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.

We worry so much in this culture about being happy. The pursuit of happiness is even written in our Constitution. It’s an erroneous concept because we are emotional, thinking beings that are constantly affected by a hundred things around us and inside us.

Wise statesmen … established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, were entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity should look up again at the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began.

It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.

Prosperity and abundance in a society depend on a certain type of person: the producer. Societies with few producers stagnate and decay, while nations with a large number of producers vibrantly grow-in wealth, freedom, power, influence and the pursuit of happiness.

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

It is the pursuit of happiness that makes people unhappy.

Don’t ever let someone tell you, you can’t do something. Not even me. You got a dream, you got to protect it.

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