--- title: "1 Liberty Pursuit Quotes By Geoffrey Wood" description: "1 Liberty Pursuit quotes by Geoffrey Wood. Plus more from Geoffrey Wood and more Liberty Pursuit sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed0/geoffrey-wood-4200_automatic_they-all-want-to-be-happy-they-all-think_1677879.jpg" --- > [“They all want to be happy. They all think they should be happy. And they’re quick to trot out their most cherished document and point to where they were promised “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” But you’ll find…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-wood/they-all-want-to-be-happy-they-all-think-they-should-be-happy-and/) [Geoffrey Wood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-wood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed0/geoffrey-wood-4200_automatic_they-all-want-to-be-happy-they-all-think_1677879.jpg) ## More by Geoffrey Wood > [“Make good and sure your clients all call themselves Americans —proudly so, defiantly, loudly— but without any more thought about it than wearing a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-wood/make-good-and-sure-your-clients-all-call-themselves-americans-proudly/) [Geoffrey Wood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-wood/) > [“The Bible is the one book we’ve most succeeded in having them never read as a book. Keep it that way.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-wood/the-bible-is-the-one-book-we-ve-most-succeeded-in-having-them-never/) [Geoffrey Wood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-wood/) > [“It was like magic, but so much of magic is about misdirection, whereas so much of redemption is straightforward and ordinary, piercing true and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-wood/it-was-like-magic-but-so-much-of-magic-is-about-misdirection-whereas/) [Geoffrey Wood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-wood/) > [“Though I despise it, I do not doubt His Love for the creatures. I have seen it —His ever-reaching outward for any hand that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-wood/though-i-despise-it-i-do-not-doubt-his-love-for-the-creatures-i-have/) [Geoffrey Wood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-wood/) > [“Everyone needs to calm down! Okay, you got a weird cookie. So what? I don’t mean to swat your ego here, buddy, but this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-wood/everyone-needs-to-calm-down-okay-you-got-a-weird-cookie-so-what-i-don/) [Geoffrey Wood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-wood/) > [“For example, your man might think: I don’t steal. Maybe on my taxes, everyone does that, but not in the way I heard so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-wood/for-example-your-man-might-think-i-don-t-steal-maybe-on-my-taxes/) [Geoffrey Wood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-wood/) > [“The eye is to light as the soul is to God.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-wood/the-eye-is-to-light-as-the-soul-is-to-god/) [Geoffrey Wood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-wood/) > [“Guilt, if cultivated in a Christian client, can render their Christianity worthless to themselves and others.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-wood/guilt-if-cultivated-in-a-christian-client-can-render-their/) [Geoffrey Wood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-wood/) > [“You see my point? The average person has a very average notion of goodness to which they aspire averagely. To aspire to goodness in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-wood/you-see-my-point-the-average-person-has-a-very-average-notion-of/) [Geoffrey Wood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-wood/) > [“Teach them the shame that tells the lie, “I am unforgivable,” when the truth is, “I feel unforgivable, but it was out of my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-wood/teach-them-the-shame-that-tells-the-lie-i-am-unforgivable-when-the/) [Geoffrey Wood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-wood/) > [“Grace runs downhill and now all his time is being redeemed.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-wood/grace-runs-downhill-and-now-all-his-time-is-being-redeemed/) [Geoffrey Wood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-wood/) > [“The Americans want a surplus stocked up to supply their every whim. And their appeals are much less requests, more demands. Indeed, the phrase…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-wood/the-americans-want-a-surplus-stocked-up-to-supply-their-every-whim/) [Geoffrey Wood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-wood/) > [“We have deficited upon their attention in the most disorderly fashion.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-wood/we-have-deficited-upon-their-attention-in-the-most-disorderly-fashion/) [Geoffrey Wood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-wood/) > [“I shouldn’t need to remind you that it was words that created the universe and The Word that now holds it together. While your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-wood/i-shouldn-t-need-to-remind-you-that-it-was-words-that-created-the/) [Geoffrey Wood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-wood/) > [“That’s where thinking started, where thinking stopped, where all her prayers so long ago had dried up. She no longer prayed, nor even dreamed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-wood/that-s-where-thinking-started-where-thinking-stopped-where-all-her/) [Geoffrey Wood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-wood/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/liberty-pursuit/geoffrey-wood/#itemlist", "name": "1 Liberty Pursuit Quotes By Geoffrey Wood", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“They all want to be happy. They all think they should be happy. And they’re quick to trot out their most cherished document and point to where they were promised “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” But you’ll find that though they all parrot that little phrase, they think none too hard about that word “pursuit”. To follow, to chase, to inquire, to hunt, to seek. To track in order to overtake and capture. This they don’t do. 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