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title: "139 Pursuit Happiness Quotes by 115 authors"
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> [“The pursuit of happiness is more fruitful than attaining it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-darke/the-pursuit-of-happiness-is-more-fruitful-than-attaining-it/)

[Derek Darke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derek-darke/)

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> [The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a lifetime](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-pursuit-of-happiness-is-the-chase-of-a-lifetime/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [It's a great game - the pursuit of happiness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugene-o-neill/it-s-a-great-game-the-pursuit-of-happiness/)

[Eugene O'Neill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugene-o-neill/)

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> [Reading is by far the most successful pursuit of happiness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-grisham/reading-is-by-far-the-most-successful-pursuit-of-happiness/)

[John Grisham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-grisham/)

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> [Life,love,liberty,& the pursuit of happiness>](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mariah-sheree/life-love-liberty-the-pursuit-of-happiness/)

[Mariah Sheree](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mariah-sheree/)

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> [“pursuit of happiness becomes the source of our unhappiness.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-harris/pursuit-of-happiness-becomes-the-source-of-our-unhappiness/)

[Dan Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-harris/)

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> [“The pursuit of happiness is internal.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/akiah-watts/the-pursuit-of-happiness-is-internal/)

[Akiah Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/akiah-watts/)

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> [I'm on the pursuit of happiness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kid-cudi/i-m-on-the-pursuit-of-happiness/)

[Kid Cudi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kid-cudi/)

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> [The pursuit of happiness...is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-henri/the-pursuit-of-happiness-is-the-greatest-feat-man-has-to-accomplish/)

[Robert Henri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-henri/)

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> [It is the pursuit of happiness that brings us happiness, and not the happiness achieved.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-white/it-is-the-pursuit-of-happiness-that-brings-us-happiness-and-not-the/)

[Jack White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-white/)

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> [Individual freedoms are the primary engine by which the pursuit of happiness can be maximally instantiated.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gad-saad/individual-freedoms-are-the-primary-engine-by-which-the-pursuit-of/)

[Gad Saad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gad-saad/)

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> [Im on the pursuit of happiness and I know, that everything thats shining aint always gonna be gold.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kid-cudi/im-on-the-pursuit-of-happiness-and-i-know-that-everything-thats/)

[Kid Cudi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kid-cudi/)

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> [I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/i-am-about-to-be-married-and-am-of-course-in-all-the-misery-of-a-man/)

[Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/)

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> [I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-weld/i-think-government-has-a-major-role-to-play-in-helping-us-with-the/)

[William Weld](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-weld/)

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> [Ironically, the pursuit of happiness can lead us into the eternal trap of chasing unhappiness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/justin-kan/ironically-the-pursuit-of-happiness-can-lead-us-into-the-eternal-trap/)

[Justin Kan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/justin-kan/)

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> [“Finding joy in the experience of imperfection is a surer way to happiness than the pursuit of happiness as a goal.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jodi-orgill-brown/finding-joy-in-the-experience-of-imperfection-is-a-surer-way-to/)

[Jodi Orgill Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jodi-orgill-brown/)

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> [I'm on the pursuit of happiness and I know, everything that shines ain't always gonna be gold. But I'll be fine once…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kid-cudi/i-m-on-the-pursuit-of-happiness-and-i-know-everything-that-shines-ain/)

[Kid Cudi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kid-cudi/)

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> [If two people want to get married, it's their prerogative - we hope. Everybody should be able to do what they want…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mariah-carey/if-two-people-want-to-get-married-it-s-their-prerogative-we-hope/)

[Mariah Carey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mariah-carey/)

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> [In our pursuit of happiness, we fall in love, get out of tiring relationships, change our jobs, our friends and our lifestyless.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherlyn-chopra/in-our-pursuit-of-happiness-we-fall-in-love-get-out-of-tiring/)

[Sherlyn Chopra](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sherlyn-chopra/)

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> [“our job as citizens, apparently, is the pursuit of happiness. Something I always have to gird myself for. I’d much rather just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-heller/our-job-as-citizens-apparently-is-the-pursuit-of-happiness-something/)

[Peter Heller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-heller/)

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> [“Hear me: I'm not knocking getting married, having a family, succeeding professionally, or even owning nice things. Rather I'm observing that pouring…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tiffany-smiling/hear-me-i-m-not-knocking-getting-married-having-a-family-succeeding/)

[Tiffany Smiling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tiffany-smiling/)

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> [The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/whittaker-chambers/the-rub-is-that-the-pursuit-of-happiness-as-an-end-in-itself-tends/)

[Whittaker Chambers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/whittaker-chambers/)

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> [For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jimmy-carter/for-this-generation-ours-life-is-nuclear-survival-liberty-is-human/)

[Jimmy Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jimmy-carter/)

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> [When the founders wrote about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, they didn't mean longer vacations and more comfortable hammocks. They…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-mccullough/when-the-founders-wrote-about-life-liberty-and-the-pursuit-of/)

[David McCullough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-mccullough/)

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> [The single most important principle I ever discovered is this: the goal or purpose of the Christian is precisely the pursuit of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-storms/the-single-most-important-principle-i-ever-discovered-is-this-the/)

[Sam Storms](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-storms/)

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> [There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/malcolm-muggeridge/there-is-something-ridiculous-and-even-quite-indecent-in-an/)

[Malcolm Muggeridge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/malcolm-muggeridge/)

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> [“He had passed his life in the pursuit of happiness, and had never learnt that happiness is best attained when it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-somerset-maugham/he-had-passed-his-life-in-the-pursuit-of-happiness-and-had-never/)

[W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-somerset-maugham/)

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> [I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jamaica-kincaid/i-think-life-is-difficult-and-that-s-that-i-am-not-at-all-absolutely/)

[Jamaica Kincaid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jamaica-kincaid/)

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> [To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/viktor-e-frankl/to-the-european-it-is-a-characteristic-of-the-american-culture-that-2/)

[Viktor E. Frankl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/viktor-e-frankl/)

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> [“Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' I realized then where the problem lay. My students, and so many of our young…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rafe-esquith/life-liberty-and-the-pursuit-of-happiness-i-realized-then-where-the/)

[Rafe Esquith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rafe-esquith/)

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> [“The right to the pursuit of happiness, originally envisaged as a restraint on state power, has imperceptibly morphed into the right to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/the-right-to-the-pursuit-of-happiness-originally-envisaged-as-a/)

[Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/)

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> [The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-henri/the-pursuit-of-happiness-is-a-great-activity-one-must-be-open-and/)

[Robert Henri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-henri/)

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> [The pursuit of happiness is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence as a right of all Americans, as well as on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-seligman/the-pursuit-of-happiness-is-enshrined-in-the-declaration-of/)

[Martin Seligman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-seligman/)

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> [“Pursuing happiness, and I did, and still do, is not at all the same as being happy- which I think is fleeting,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette-winterson/pursuing-happiness-and-i-did-and-still-do-is-not-at-all-the-same-as/)

[Jeanette Winterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeanette-winterson/)

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> [“Venerable age had not, for him, arranged that derelict landscape against which it is privileged to sit and pick its nose, break…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-gaddis/venerable-age-had-not-for-him-arranged-that-derelict-landscape/)

[William Gaddis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-gaddis/)

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> [ “\[…\] we humans, as long as we live, are generally incapable of freeing ourselves from a certain ardent searching and longing, and… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-walser/we-humans-as-long-as-we-live-are-generally-incapable-of-freeing/)

[Robert Walser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-walser/)

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> [“Humanistic propaganda screams at us everywhere we go. “You deserve better.” “There’s no one like you.” “Stand up for yourself.” And after…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-mark-comer/humanistic-propaganda-screams-at-us-everywhere-we-go-you-deserve/)

[John Mark Comer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-mark-comer/)

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> [“Let me put it this way: You cannot live in the world without being in pain, spiritual and physical pain. We have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-foster-wallace/let-me-put-it-this-way-you-cannot-live-in-the-world-without-being-in/)

[David Foster Wallace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-foster-wallace/)

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> [“The “pursuit of happiness” is such a key element of the “American (ideological) dream” that one tends to forget the contingent origin…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/slavoj-i-ek/the-pursuit-of-happiness-is-such-a-key-element-of-the-american/)

[Slavoj Žižek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/slavoj-i-ek/)

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> [“Destiny pulls us forward while the disappointments of our past try to drag us back; back into the mud of mediocrity and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-a-jimason/destiny-pulls-us-forward-while-the-disappointments-of-our-past-try-to/)

[James A. Jimason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-a-jimason/)

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## Top authors on Pursuit Happiness

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-jeanette-winterson-48151.jpg) Jeanette Winterson 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/pursuit-happiness/jeanette-winterson/)

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                        "text": "“He had passed his life in the pursuit of happiness, and had never learnt that happiness is best attained when it is not sought; and, moreover, is only known when it is lost. It is doubtful whether anyone can say \"I am happy\"; but only \"I was happy\". For happiness is not well-being, content, heart's ease, pleasure, enjoyment: all these go to make happiness, but they are not happiness.”",
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                        "text": "“Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' I realized then where the problem lay. My students, and so many of our young people today, want a good life. They love (even if they don't always appreciate) liberty. They all want to be happy. But I realized that day that my class was a microcosm of what is wrong with some any of nation's young people. What happened to pursuit? We aren't handed happiness. We're given an opportunity to pursue it.”",
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                        "text": "“Venerable age had not, for him, arranged that derelict landscape against which it is privileged to sit and pick its nose, break wind, and damn the course of youth groping among the obstacles erected, dutifully, by its own hands earlier, along the way of that sublime delusion known as the pursuit of happiness. Not to be confused with the state of political bigotry, mental obstinacy, financial security, sensual atrophy, emotional penury, and spiritual collapse which, under the name “maturity”, animated lives around him, it might be said that Reverend Gwyon had reached maturity.”",
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                        "text": "“[…] we humans, as long as we live, are generally incapable of freeing ourselves from a certain ardent searching and longing, and should not even strive to; that our longing for happiness seems far more beautiful, always far more sensitive, more significant and all in all probably far more desirable than happiness itself, which perhaps need not even exist, since the fervent, gratifying pursuit of happiness and an everlasting, deep desire for it perhaps not only suit perfectly our needs, but satisfy them far better, far more profoundly; that being happy is by no means to be taken casually, unquestioningly as the meaning of the world, the goal and purpose of life, and so on.”",
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                        "text": "“Humanistic propaganda screams at us everywhere we go. “You deserve better.” “There’s no one like you.” “Stand up for yourself.” And after a while we start believing the mantra. The most influential culture-shaping document in American history is the Declaration of Independence. And built into the ethos of American society are three inalienable rights: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I think the wording is ironic: the pursuit of happiness. It’s almost like the architects of modern democracy said, “We guarantee you life, and we promise you liberty. But happiness? Good luck.” America is a social experiment founded on the pursuit of happiness. Hundreds of millions of Americans are chasing down happiness. Money, materialism, sex, romance, religion, family, and fame are all pursuits of the same human craving—joy. But apart from Jesus, we never get there. People spend decades searching high and low for happiness and never land at joy. In an odd twist of fate, America, for all her life and liberty, is one of the most depressed nations in the world. And many of us are mad at God. Somehow we think God owes us. We deserve happiness. We deserve a good, comfortable life, free from pain and suffering. We have rights! Right? The scriptures present a totally different worldview that stands against the humanism of Western Europe. It is written, “By grace you have been saved.”[17] The word grace is (charis) in the Greek, which can be translated as “gift.” All of life is grace. All of life is a gift. Humans have no rights. Everything is a gift. Food, shelter, the clothes on our backs, the oxygen in our lungs—it’s all grace. The entire planet, the sky above us and the ground beneath our feet, is all on loan from the Creator God. We live under his roof, eat his food, and drink his water. We are guests. And we are blessed. A reporter once asked Bob Dylan if he was happy. Dylan’s response was, “These are yuppie words, happiness and unhappiness. It’s not happiness or unhappiness. It’s either blessed or unblessed.”[18] I like that. We are blessed. When you reorient yourself to a biblical worldview, the only posture left to take is gratitude. If all of life is a gift, how could we help but thank God?”",
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                        "text": "“Let me put it this way: You cannot live in the world without being in pain, spiritual and physical pain. We have developed mechanisms to deal with these pains, to overcome them somehow. Therapy, religion and spirituality, relationships, material success. All this can work, but also become a problem itself. The pursuit of happiness has even been put into the American constitution a couple centuries ago. Today we're so rich, we own much more than we need, we have liberties unknown before, even though they are endangered in the current political climate in the US - and we forget how wonderful it nevertheless is, compared to most other political and economic systems. We have a saying that goes: Give a man enough rope and he hangs himself.”",
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                        "text": "“The “pursuit of happiness” is such a key element of the “American (ideological) dream” that one tends to forget the contingent origin of this phrase: “We holds these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Where did the somewhat awkward “pursuit of happiness” come from in this famous opening passage of the US Declaration of Independence? The origin of it is John Locke, who claimed that all men had the natural rights of life, liberty, and property— the latter was replaced by “the pursuit of happiness” during negotiations of the drafting of the Declaration, as a way to negate the black slaves’ right to property.”",
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                        "text": "“Destiny pulls us forward while the disappointments of our past try to drag us back; back into the mud of mediocrity and complacency. Our life soon becomes a tug-of-war of mental and emotional anguish, until the final decision is made. We must resolve within our soul the question; do I go forward, retreat and give up, or simply stand still? My friend, there is only one logical answer to this question, that has plagued the minds of every human on earth – go forward! Embrace the passion that burns within your soul, because the pursuit of happiness is really the pursuit of Destiny.”",
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