#pursuit

One never stops climbing, Julie, unless he wants to stop and vegetate. There’s always something just ahead. ↗

— Irene Hunt

#journey #life #pursuit #striving #life

Hate to sound sleazy, but tease me, I don't want it if it's that easy ↗

— Tupac Shakur

#pursuit #sex #tease #women #hate

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness. ↗

— Lord Byron

#about #am #course #happiness #i

There is a Beautiful Creature Living in a hole you have dug. So at night I set fruit and grains And little pots of wine and milk Besides your soft earthen mounds, And I often sing. But still, my dear, You do not come out. I have fallen in love with Someone Who hides inside you. We should talk about this problem-- Otherwise, I will never leave you alone. ↗

— حافظ

#beauty

We must recognize the fact that many Nazis, Marxists and Fascists believe passionately in their fundamental rightness, and allow nothing to hinder them from their goal in the pursuit of their mission. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#believe #fact #fascists #fundamental #goal

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#leads #only #pursuit #science

I think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of, 'What else can you do with a voice other than stand in front of a microphone and sing?' ↗

— Brian Eno

#else #front #i #i think #microphone

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement. ↗

— George Will

#improvement #often #perfection #pursuit

I've always considered myself lucky that I do not have many passions. There's only one pursuit that I have ever truly loved, and that pursuit is writing. This means, conveniently enough, that I never had to search for my destiny; I only had to obey it. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#considered #conveniently #destiny #enough #ever

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#activity #artists #creative #geniuses #heartless