The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I have some intellectual-type pursuits, like studying philosophy and stuff like that. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Our bodies are held captive, but our pursuit of freedom cannot be contained. — Joshua Wong Copy Share Image
The ugliness of the ideological lies in its legitimating the pursuit of the trivial. — John Carroll Copy Share Image
The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think redemption is about righting a wrong, and in that pursuit it's about trying. You can stumble, you can make mistakes,… — Michael B. Jordan Copy Share Image
For every one step that you take in the pursuit of higher knowledge, take three steps in the perfection of your own… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
All successful individuals have become such by hard work; by improving moments before they pass into hours, and hours that other people… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
That is our generation's task, to make these works, these rights, these values of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We all know there are vast differences between Trump and Trudeau as people, but we need to separate that from the pursuit… — Erin O'Toole Copy Share Image
There is no sure-fire way to get rich quickly. In fact, the pursuit of that usually leads to ruin. — Whitney Tilson Copy Share Image
What is it that's taken hold of me, for me to carry on like this in relentless pursuit of something beyond my… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
No matter how many possessions we acquire, they will not provide us with any lasting happiness and freedom. On the contrary, it… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
It is easier for an artful Man, who is not in Love, to persuade his Mistress he has a Passion for her,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Persons who reach the higher rungs in business management, selling, engineering, religious work, writing, acting, and in every other pursuit get there… — David J. Schwartz Copy Share Image
The life of Zen begins, therefore, in a disillusion with the pursuit of goals which do not really exist the good without… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees. He who fritters away… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Real peace comes only when you stop chasing it. When you relax your driving desire for comfort, real fulfillment arises. When you… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but… — William Osler Copy Share Image
Where suspicion fills the air and holds scholars in line for fear of their jobs, there can be no exercise of the… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
By our uncritical pursuit of relevance we have actually courted irrelevance; by our breathless chase after relevance without a matching committment to… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
Some persons can give themselves away to an ambitious pursuit and have that be all the giving-themselves-away-to-something they need to do. Though… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The essence of modernity is that progress no longer waits on genius; instead we have learned to put our faith in the… — William Wickenden Copy Share Image
Swarmers run the risk of skittering like water bugs on the surface of life. By being quickly and constantly connected, they can… — Joel Garreau Copy Share Image
Since the Greeks the predominant attitude of thinkers towards intellectual activity was to glorify it insofar as (like aesthetic activity) it finds… — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I believe in the pursuit of happiness. Not its attainment, nor its final definition, but its pursuit. I believe in the journey,… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
