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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. -- Guillaume Apollinaire
There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy. -- Joyce Grenfell
It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit. -- Denis Waitley
We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government. -- Paul Ryan
I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. -- Victoria Woodhull
For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants. -- Jimmy Carter
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
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. -- Thomas Jefferson
The pursuit of happiness is the source of all unhappiness. -- Lulu
The pursuit of happiness...is the greatest feat man has to accomplish. -- Robert Henri
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time. -- Edith Wharton
You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy. -- Eric Hoffer
Slow down in your pursuit of happiness and it's more likely to catch up with you. -- Ernie J Zelinski
I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness. -- William Weld
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. -- C.P. Snow
If America is the pursuit of happiness, the best way to pursue happiness is to help other people. -- George Lucas
The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. -- Epictetus
That is our generation's task, to make these works, these rights, these values of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness real for every American. -- Barack Obama
I'm on the pursuit of happiness and I know, everything that shines ain't always gonna be gold. But I'll be fine once I get it, I'll be good. -- Kid Cudi
If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on. -- Terence McKenna
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government... -- Thomas Jefferson
America stands for liberty, for the pursuit of happiness and for the unalienable right for life. This right to life cannot be granted or denied by government because it does not come from government, it comes from the creator of life. -- George W. Bush
Simple morality dictates that unless and until someone can prove the unborn human is not alive, we must give it the benefit of the doubt and assume it is (alive). And, thus, it should be entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. -- Ronald Reagan
My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit. -- Charles Saatchi
I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness. -- Gabrielle Anwar
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. -- C.P. Snow
I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy. -- Parker Palmer
The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. -- Epictetus
I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness. -- Lord Byron
For many, many people, getting married is one of the most important things they will ever do in the pursuit of happiness. -- Marianne Williamson
The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
Democracy rests upon two pillars: one, the principle that all men are equally entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and the other, the conviction that such equal opportunity will most advance civilization. -- Louis D. Brandeis
Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options. -- Nathan Myhrvold
While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. -- Sarah Vowell
It is easily and often overlooked that when Thomas Jefferson asserted that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were inalienable human rights, he did so on the ground that they had been endowed by God, our Creator. -- Tom Stoppard
The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The doctrine of the blank slate... is a totalitarian's dream. -- Steven Pinker
When I was growing up, I don't remember being told that America was created so that everyone could get rich. I remember being told it was about opportunity and the pursuit of happiness. Not happiness itself, but the pursuit. -- Martin Scorsese
Today, we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. -- Jim Ryun
The Declaration calls us to recognize the inherent equality of all people. And when it becomes unmistakably evident that a government is denying the governed life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, it's the right of people to establish a new government to secure these unalienable rights. -- Mike Crapo
I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed. -- Rush Limbaugh
America is a mosaic not of groups but of individuals, each of whom carries a host of cultural influences, some chosen, some inherited, some absorbed by osmosis. That mosaic is held together by the pursuit of happiness, the most powerful mortar ever conceived. Left alone, it will long endure. -- Virginia Postrel
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Don't lose your happiness on the pursuit for more -- Mike Stud
Happiness, as a pursuit, is suitable only for pigs. -- Albert Einstein
It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness. -- Viktor E. Frankl
The pursuit of happiness is such a large of concept. -- Jerry Garcia
It is the pursuit of happiness that makes people unhappy. -- Piero Scaruffi
Reading is by far the most successful pursuit of happiness. -- John Grisham
The pursuit of meaning, not happiness, is what makes life worthwhile. -- Tom Rath
In pursuit of happiness, smart people often end up dumbing down themselves. -- Erol Ozan
Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit. -- Harriet Martineau
any pursuit of happiness contrary to the common good is doomed to failure. -- Alice Hegan Rice
Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. -- Ayn Rand
Happiness is not in wealth or splendor, but in passion, perception, and pursuit. -- Debasish Mridha
Let people be the pursuits of happiness, you be the pursuit of perfection. -- Amit Kalantri
Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty. -- George Bernard Shaw
The Pursuit of Happiness: It sure seems to like a good chase, doesn't it? -- Demetri Martin
The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness. -- David Brin
Essentially pursuit of happiness is saying, everything's allowed until we come down on it. -- Howard Rheingold
I believe everyone on this planet deserves equal rights to their own pursuit of happiness. -- Joel Madden
To me, that's the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That's the basic, ultimate freedom. -- Jerry Garcia
Happiness doesn't always come from a pursuit. Sometimes it comes when we least expect it. -- Dalai Lama
Happiness doesn't always come from a pursuit. Sometimes it comes when we least expect it. -- Dalai Lama
It is the pursuit of happiness that brings us happiness, and not the happiness achieved. -- Jack White
Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. -- Leonard Boswell
It's the pursuit of love and happiness that is the driving force of the romantic novel. -- Susanna Kearsley
I'm not in pursuit of happiness, I'm happiness in pursuit; ready to happen everywhere I go. -- Bernard Kelvin Clive
Joy is realized as the natural by-product of the passionate pursuit of something other than happiness. -- Marc Gafni
There is something very unique in American iconography about this notion of the pursuit of happiness. -- David Henry Hwang
The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It's not in the Bill of Rights. -- Jerry Garcia
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. -- C.P. Snow
The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We're all entitled to have the best we can -- Loretta Swit
All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. -- Thomas Jefferson
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: this triptych succinctly defines the attractiveness and superiority of Western civilization. -- Ibn Warraq
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities. -- Aldous Huxley
You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right - constitutional right. -- Gore Vidal
I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy -- Parker J. Palmer
Discipleship is the pursuit of holiness and happiness. It is the path to our best and happiest self. -- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
For me, the only sources of moral values are the pursuit of understanding and the pursuit of happiness. -- Matthew Stewart
The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
With all respect to Mr. Jefferson, I would put the pursuit of wisdom ahead of the pursuit of happiness. -- Edmund Fuller
It is an important thing, in our never-ending pursuit of happiness, to stop and just be happy for a while. -- Mark Twain
The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. Your have to catch up with it yourself. -- Benjamin Franklin
Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness. -- Thomas Jefferson
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. -- Benjamin Franklin
I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. -- John D. Rockefeller
True happiness involves the pursuit of worth goals; without dreams, without risks, only a trivial semblance of living can be achieved. -- Dan Buettner
It is proved by surveys that happiness does not come from love, wealth, or power but the pursuit of attainable goals. -- Helen Fielding
Life in this world is short. Let us make use of our lives in the pursuit of happiness and not trouble. -- Tunku Abdul Rahman
Modern Americans travel light, with little philosophic baggage other than a fervent belief in their right to the pursuit of happiness. -- George Will
All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their own happiness or satisfaction -- Dalai Lama
Philadelphia, the foundation of freedom, liberty and democracy, I still believe in the idea of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. -- Michael Nutter
To guarantee the individual maximum freedom within a social frame of minimal laws ensures - if not happiness - its hopeful pursuit. -- John Updike
As with the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of truth is itself gratifying whereas the consummation often turns out to be elusive. -- Richard Hofstadter
Thomas Jefferson was a real poet. He was slick with that 'pursuit' of happiness because the 'pursuit' puts it back on you. -- Will Smith
The more we devote ourselves to the pursuit of holiness and happiness, the less likely we will be on a path to regrets. -- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Luxury is...to be able to take control of one's life, health, and the pursuit of happiness in a way that is joyful. -- Andre Leon Talley
As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves. -- Andrew Delbanco
One way to express choice is through the market. Well-functioning markets provide choices and, ultimately, the ability to express one's pursuit for happiness. -- Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin
The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity. -- Jesse Ventura
The pursuit of individual happiness within those limits prescribed by social conditions, is the first requisite to the attainment of the greatest general happiness. -- Herbert Spencer
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Our predicament is not the difficulty of attaining happiness, but the difficult of avoiding the misery to which the pursuit of happiness exposes us. -- Michael Joseph Oakeshott
I've come to believe that seeking happiness is not a frivolous pursuit. It's honorable and necessary. And most people forget even to thing about it. -- Goldie Hawn
Waking up is not a selfish pursuit of happiness, it is a revolutionary stance, from the inside out, for the benefit of all beings in existence. -- Noah Levine
America's political system used to be about the pursuit of happiness. Now More and more of us want to stop chasing it and have it delivered. -- Jonah Goldberg
We have a long heritage of freedom that defines America. We believe there is a Creator who blessed us with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. -- Todd Akin
Read the Declaration of Independence to your children as a tradition every Fourth of July. Make sure they understand why the word "pursuit" precedes the word "happiness." -- Jeff Bezos
If there is an abiding theme in 'The Pursuit of Happiness,' it is the idea that you come into the world already shaped by other people's past histories. -- Douglas Kennedy
Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here. -- James Hillman
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness. -- Godfrey Reggio

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