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“If the sun is shining, stand in it- yes, yes, yes. Happy times are great, but happy times pass- they have to- because time passes. The pursuit of happiness is more elusive; it is life-long, and it is not goal-centred. What you are pursuing is meaning- a meaningful life... There are times when it will go so wrong that you will be barely alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else's terms.”
Jeanette Winterson
“I had always been taught that the pursuit of happiness was my natural (even national) birthright. It is the emotional trademark of my culture to seek happiness. Not just any kind of happiness, either, but profound happiness, even soaring happiness. And what could possibly bring a person more soaring happiness than romantic love.”
Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage“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. Instead, having been offered a promise of happiness, they progress to a feeling of entitlement for happiness, then make the leap that happiness should, therefore, be easily won, automatic. There’s too much wrong in there to even scratch at that!”
Geoffrey Wood“It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.”
Robert Henri“It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.”
Denis Waitley“The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.”
Carrie Snow“The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital-H. ”
Dan Savage, Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America“don't let the pursuit of happiness stop you from being happy right here, right now.”
Karen Salmansohn“I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.”
Parker Palmer“The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase”
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