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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.Collection: Pursuit Of Happiness
A human life is defined by its relationship with others: by its duty to its species. In the face of this duty, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are meaningless. What you call individual rights are merely the cultural fantasy of a failed civilization.Collection: Pursuit Of Happiness
It's a great game - the pursuit of happiness.Collection: Pursuit Of Happiness
People can't do something themselves, they want to tell you you can't do it. You want something, go get it.Collection: Pursuit Of Happiness
It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson on the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking how did he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue and maybe we can actually never have it. No matter what. How did he know that?Collection: Pursuit Of Happiness
Liberal relativism has its roots in the natural right tradition of tolerance or in the notion that everyone has a natural right to the pursuit of happiness as he understands happiness; but in itself it is a seminary of intolerance.Collection: Pursuit Of Happiness
It is the pursuit of happiness that brings us happiness, and not the happiness achieved.Collection: Pursuit Of Happiness
I'm on the pursuit of happiness, and I know, Everything that shine ain't always gonna be gold, Hey, I'll be fine once I get it, I'll be good...Collection: Pursuit Of Happiness
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: this triptych succinctly defines the attractiveness and superiority of Western civilization.Collection: Pursuit Of Happiness
Personally, I've never had it as a goal in life to be happy. Seems impossible to achieve. Even the Declaration of Independence seems to acknowledge this. They talk about the pursuit of happiness, not happiness itself.Collection: Pursuit Of Happiness
The pursuit of happiness is the source of all unhappiness.Collection: Pursuit Of Happiness
For the majority of contemporary Americans, the essence of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness centers on a relentless personal quest to acquire, to consume, to indulge, and to shed whatever constraints might interfere with those endeavors.Collection: Pursuit Of Happiness
America was founded on the principle of inalienable rights, not dictated duties. The Declaration of Independence states that every human being has a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It does not state that he is born a slave to the needs of others.Collection: Pursuit Of Happiness
To us all, life is a gift, liberty is a right, and the pursuit of happiness is the object supreme. But our conduct in the pursuit differs in accordance with the measure of justice we uphold. A common measure is only possible when we begin to understand and learn to appreciate each other's point of view and point of direction.Collection: Pursuit Of Happiness
Life in this world is short. Let us make use of our lives in the pursuit of happiness and not trouble.Collection: Pursuit Of Happiness
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.Collection: Pursuit Of Happiness
To me, that's the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That's the basic, ultimate freedom.Collection: Pursuit Of Happiness
It is the pursuit of happiness that makes people unhappy.Collection: Pursuit Of Happiness
All equally see in the convulsion in America an era in the history of the world, out of which must come in the end a general recognition of the right of mankind to the produce of their labor and the pursuit of happiness.Collection: Pursuit Of Happiness
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.Collection: Pursuit Of Happiness
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.Collection: Pursuit Of Happiness
What makes us exceptional - what makes us American - is our allegiance to an idea articulated in a declaration made more than two centuries ago: “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.”Collection: Pursuit Of Happiness
I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.Collection: Pursuit Of Happiness
Modern Americans travel light, with little philosophic baggage other than a fervent belief in their right to the pursuit of happiness.Collection: Pursuit Of Happiness
The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various 'individuals', or groups of 'individuals', experience of freedom in America. Some would argue that it goes beyond hampering their "pursuit of happiness" to outright obliterating it.Collection: Pursuit Of Happiness
The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.Collection: Pursuit Of Happiness
The minute you use the drugs, and you do something that interferes with the life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness of the guy next door, you're a criminal, and you ought to be punished for that especially if you're in a position where your actions could affect large numbers of people. Being a doctor, a legislator, a judge, an airline pilot, where somebody's life depends on you.Collection: Pursuit Of Happiness
Essentially pursuit of happiness is saying, everything's allowed until we come down on it.Collection: Pursuit Of Happiness
It is an important thing, in our never-ending pursuit of happiness, to stop and just be happy for a while.Collection: Pursuit Of Happiness
The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness.Collection: Pursuit Of Happiness
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.Collection: Pursuit Of Happiness
The chief duty of governments, in so far as they are coercive, is to restrain those who would interfere with the inalienable rights of the individual, among which are the right to life, the right to liberty, the right to the pursuit of happiness and the right to worship God according to the dictates of ones conscience.Collection: Pursuit Of Happiness
The pursuit of happiness is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence as a right of all Americans, as well as on the self-improvement shelves of every American bookstore. Yet the scientific evidence makes it seem unlikely that you can change your level of happiness in any sustainable way. It suggests that we each have a fixed range for happiness just as we do for weight. And just as dieters almost always regain the weight they lose, sad people don't become lastingly happy, and happy people don't become lastingly sad.Collection: Pursuit Of Happiness
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.Collection: Pursuit Of Happiness
no one wanted to look at the common evils of society. Very few were willing to put aside their own pursuit of happiness long enough to consider the effects of greed and jealousy around them. From what she'd seen, humans were essentially troubled. For every one behind bars, another ten deserved to be behind bars, but that would put one in ten Americans behind bars.Collection: Pursuit Of Happiness
The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It's not in the Bill of Rights.Collection: Pursuit Of Happiness
The pursuit of happiness is such a large of concept.Collection: Pursuit Of Happiness
When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly helping to promote the pursuit of happiness by our fellow human beings.Collection: Pursuit Of Happiness
To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.' Once the reason is found, however, one becomes happy automatically. As we see, a human being is not one in pursuit of happiness but rather in search of a reason to become happy, last but not least, through actualizing the potential meaning inherent and dormant in a given situation.Collection: Pursuit Of Happiness
Prosperity and abundance in a society depend on a certain type of person: the producer. Societies with few producers stagnate and decay, while nations with a large number of producers vibrantly grow-in wealth, freedom, power, influence and the pursuit of happiness.Collection: Pursuit Of Happiness
All unprejudiced persons objectively surveying the grim events in Bangla Desh since March 25 have recognized the revolt of 75 million people, a people who were forced to the conclusion that neither their life, nor their liberty, to say nothing of the possibility of the pursuit of happiness, was available to them.Collection: Pursuit Of Happiness
The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish, and spirits must flow. There must be courage. There are no easy ruts to get into which lead to happiness. A man must become interesting to himself and must become actually expressive before he can be happy.Collection: Pursuit Of Happiness
Those self-evident principles of life and liberty, pursuit of happiness, they're not self-executing. They require each of us to get engaged. And what Barack Obama is really concerned about is to ensure that the American people appreciate their power to influence the democracy.Collection: Pursuit Of Happiness
All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.Collection: Pursuit Of Happiness
If [God] has made it a law in the nature of man to pursue his own happiness, He has left him free in the choice of place as well as mode, and we may safely call on the whole body of English jurists to produce the map on which nature has traced for each individual the geographical line which she forbids him to cross in pursuit of happiness.Collection: Pursuit Of Happiness
We worry so much in this culture about being happy. The pursuit of happiness is even written in our Constitution. It's an erroneous concept because we are emotional, thinking beings that are constantly affected by a hundred things around us and inside us.Collection: Pursuit Of Happiness
If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience.Collection: Pursuit Of Happiness
That word again. Happy. It’s a curse. The pursuit of happiness makes us deeply unhappy. It’s a trap.Before anything else happened, there was me in bed, thinking of who you used to be. I don’t want you to think I forgot.Collection: Pursuit Of Happiness