#pursuit

Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole. ↗

— Aristophanes

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#become #even #friends #friendship #greatest

Someone told me there was a publisher that could find a good home for my songs, but I didn't want to give up my pursuit of a career in the business as an artist. ↗

— Michael Bolton

#business #career #could #find #give

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

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The cloud that descended on Black Rock on Monday was not for the past but the future. How much will this debacle chill the pursuit of other risky investigations? ↗

— Tina Brown

#chill #cloud #descended #future #how

The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the hope of their early civilization. They have for the most part abandoned the hunter state and turned their attention to agricultural pursuits. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#agricultural #apart #attention #civilization #condition

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again. ↗

— Julia Cameron

#best #enough #ever #good #nothing

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#cuts #down #eager #every #fruit

One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very ambitious men-versus-women game of Trivial Pursuit. It's brutal. And there's a trophy. ↗

— Bobby Flay

#ambitious #brutal #dessert #down #game

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time. ↗

— Denis Waitley

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