Quotes of: Pursuit-of-happiness Keyword

Lena realized that a fundamental layer of their happiness depended on the four of them being close to one another. Their lives were independent and full. Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives, but it seemed to give meaning to all the ot...

Sisterhood Everlasting

Life is paradoxical, but I believe that I could also be the same person I am today, if life would have cut me with happiness instead of pain.

SG - Suicide Game

But in the end they were not called saints because of the way they died, or because of their visions or wondrous deeds, but because of their extraordinary capacity for love and goodness, which reminded others of the love of God.

The Saints' Guide to Happiness

In short, we derive support for our preferred conclusions by listening to the words that we put in the mouths of people who have already been preselected for their willingness to say what we want to hear.

Stumbling on Happiness

Anne is God. I am God. The happy grass are God, Jill groks in beauty always. Jill is God. All shaping and making and creating together.

Stranger in a Strange Land

Inside every poor creature was a sense of some other happy destiny, a destiny that was necessary and inevitable -why, then, did they find their lives such a burden and why were they always waiting for something?

Soul

Your true purpose is to become your own unique self, and to do so with happiness and freedom from fear.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

Love knew no bounds, know no limitations. It looked beyond the unseen realm and reached in for a taste, for a moment of regenerated happiness, and in that moment fate was altered and the destinies of many were changed. Their land, their Northbrook, t...

Magnificence

Love knew no bounds, knew no limitations. It looked beyond the unseen realm and reached in for a taste, for a moment of regenerated happiness, and in that moment fate was altered and the destinies of many were changed. Their land, their Northbrook, t...

Magnificence

And so the merry party began. It was one of those jolly, happy, bread-crumbling parties where you cough twice before you speak, and then decide not to say it after all.

My Man Jeeves

Happiness requires a balance. If you feel rejected, you need to pursue love with dignity. If you feel put down you need to restore your dignity in an attractive fashion.

A Model for Living

People are raised to believe that happiness is the land to which they are destined to travel. But that belief, which one so easily accepts as true, might just as well be a mirage.

The Mute's Soliloquy: A Memoir

/.../happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself.

Man's Search for Meaning

You're the sort of girl that should only have happiness, you know? Who should wake up smiling, feeling special because someone does everything they can to make that so.

The Monsters

The man will wait in front of the altar in his black suit. The woman will walk up the aisle in her white gown. The vow, the ring, the kiss.... All kind of romance. A gate to happiness. They call it marriage.

Morning, Noon, & Night

Looking outside of yourself for love and acceptance, leaves your happiness in the hands of others.

My Feet Aren't Ugly: A Girl's Guide to Loving Herself from the Inside Out

It turned out that capitalism alone could make people not only rich and happy but also poor, hungry, miserable, and powerless.

The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin

Son, are you happy? I don't mean to pry, but do you dream of Heaven? Have you ever wanted to die?

The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories

If we are to feel the positive feelings of love, happiness, trust, and gratitude, we periodically also have to feel anger, sadness, fear, and sorrow.

Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

People can cry when they’re happy or sad. Tears are tasty and drinkable on all occasions.

The Merits of Marthaism, and How Being Named Susan Can Benefit You