Quotes of: Pursuit-of-happiness Keyword

Narrator: This is a story of boy meets girl. The boy, Tom Hansen of Margate, New Jersey, grew up believing that he'd never truly be happy until the day he met the one. This belief stemmed from early exposure to sad British pop music and a total mis-r...

(500) Days of Summer

He lives happy and master of himself who can say as each day passes on, "I have lived.

The Complete Essays

Men make their own happiness, and a man may be respected even though only a slave.

The Cat of Bubastes: A Tale of Ancient Egypt

It was a pity that people did not risk enough to speak out in behalf of one another's happiness and their own.

Collected Fiction

OK you maybe can't buy happiness with Cosmic Ordering, but it's much better crying in a mansion than in a hovel.

Cosmic Ordering Guide

All that alcohol does for them is to liberate the sense of sin, which reason suppresses in saner moments.

The Conquest of Happiness

Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

The Conquest of Happiness

Then the world will be for the common people, and the sounds of happiness will reach the deepest springs. Ah! Come! People of every land, how can you not be roused.

The Communist Manifesto

In the midst of happiness or despair in sorrow or in joy in pleasure or in pain: Do what is right and you will be at peace.

The Catastrophic History of You and Me

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

The Consolation of Philosophy

Ah, not in knowledge is happiness, but in the acquisition of knowledge! In forever knowing, we are forever blessed; but to know all, were the curse of a fiend.

The Complete Poetry

Nothing makes me happy quite like a boatload of freshly fried fast food, smothered in good old MSG.

Crescendo

Bible: Various portions of it, when properly interpreted, contain a code of behaviour which many men consider best suited to the ultimate happiness of mankind.

The Caves of Steel

A soul that is happy in the things of God can overcome tremendous obstacles.

Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth

My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how many of those were happy.

Diaries: The Python Years, 1969-1979

What lived on-in me- was the discomfort of how completely I'd outgrown the novel I'd once been so happy to live in

The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History

Humanity's greatest achievement will come when the happiness of some will no longer be the sadness of others.

Destined for Oblivion: As Nature Intended

Um i'm happy to sit close to you and everything, but i had no idea you would like it so much,' Paris muttered.

The Darkest Night

Oh, I envy you!" he cried. "You are still nourished by yesterday's alms, but yesterday's happiness no longer nourishes me.

Elective Affinities

Destiny and fate are of one’s own making, and riches and happiness are rarely found at the end of an easily-traversed path.

The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

No one ever forgets a toy that made him or her supremely happy as a child, even if that toy is replaced by one like it that is much nicer.

The Eyes of the Dragon