The pursuit of happiness is more fruitful than attaining it.

Philosophy attempts, not to discover new truths about the world, but to gain a clear view of what we already know and believe about…

— Michael Dummett

“By the time most people figure out what they really want and how to go about attaining it, it’s usually too late.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Life is not accomplishing some special work but attaining to a degree of consciousness and inner freedom which is beyond all works and attainments.

— Thomas Merton

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

— Horace Mann

It is better to be unsuccessful pursuing a significant goal that being successful attaining an insignificant one.

— Michael Josephson

Man can only be what he sees himself to be, and only attain what he sees himself attaining.

— Florence Scovel Shinn

You have to be sure you want what you want, and there's no real way of knowing, other than attaining it.

— Anonymous

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

— Sophie Swetchine

“No living being, right upto attaining moksha, has deliberately done anything,’. Understand just this one sentence.”

— Dada Bhagwan

For most people, attaining the intellectual clarity and emotional detachment that investing requires is tough.

— Guy Spier

“For remember, ever, that Mind in its entirety is ever the Builder. For it is step by step, line by line, precept upon precept,…

— Edgar Cayce

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all…

— Anonymous

To be human is to seek perfection, and find joy in never attaining it.

— Lupita Nyong'o

“Whatever it is in life that is worth attaining, there must be something that is provoking an individual to go for that thing passionately.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Your fervent wishes can only find fulfillment if you succeed in attaining love and understanding of men, and animals, and plants, and stars, so…

— Albert Einstein