#pursuit

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 Herrick

#activity #alive #be happy #energy #feat

To many, Homer may appear lazy and a loser, but he's just much misguided. He's boorish, sure, but well meaning and, I guess, the one thing we have in common is the pursuit of lousy diets. ↗

— Dan Castellaneta

#common #diets #guess #homer #i

The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#cost #could #everything #friends #grow

Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are. ↗

— Wayne Dyer

#deficiency #fix #lead #learn #life-long

For the freedoms our founding fathers not only dreamed about, but made into reality. It is that same pursuit of freedom today that is helping to make our world a safer place. ↗

— John M. McHugh

#dreamed #fathers #founding #founding fathers #freedom

Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#part #pursuit #seduction #sexuality #sizzle

Nature of course is the best guide in the matter of choosing a pursuit. ↗

— James Payn

#choosing #course #guide #matter #nature

I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious of need, responsibility of thinking-speaking with truth. I do not go about hunting 'truths.' ↗

— Laura Riding

#am #conscious #go #human #human nature

It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit. ↗

— Antoine Rivarol

#dim #enchantment #haze #mystery #pursuit

When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit. ↗

— Donald Johanson

#africa #anthropology #around #began #biology