The Pursuit To Happiness Quotes Novels & Stories

The one that her father had told her about. "Listen to me, fall, happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn, or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude, do you understand, little one?" He asked as Autumn nodded, "Keep your face always towards the sunshine and the shadow will fall behind you." THE END

Everyone kept on running towards a dead end but keep on figuring out how to fight, how to climb up even though there was no way to run anymore. An achiever that made his or her dream come true didn’t truly become happy. There was something they kept on missing while they chase their dreams. It piled up and when they reached the finish line---- it was over. They recognized it but it was too late to do anything.

I leaned down and pressed my forehead against hers. “This life and the next, and it will still never be enough.” Over the years we’d been through so much. There we were, busy with work and children and life. There was no more pain, no more fear, only love and happiness. Forever. The End

“What about internal happiness?” “That comes with prosperity.” She chuffed. “I know many wealthy people who are not happy, Z.” “Very well. What does prosperity mean to you?” She thought about it for a moment, sipping her mocha. “Independence from wants, needs, or desires.” “Sounds rather empty, having no desires.” She smiled, a cat having just cornered her prey. “That depends on your definition of desires.” “Aspirations, lust, passion and an eagerness to pursue.”

For me, as soon as I entered this world happiness had become a trifle matter that would only distract me from achieving things that I should achieve. “You misunderstood my words,” Pericles spoke and readied to clarify himself. “What I was trying to say is why can’t we be happy and fulfill our mission at the same time?” I scoffed at his words. He sounded more ridiculous than the last. Having this mission meant abandoning every worldly matters, as a person with the same responsibility as me, he should have known that from the start.

Take my breath and take me far away, for dying is not as painful as what they say it was. All I wanted is to be happy and to be with the one I love. To be happy is all that I need, is all I wished to have, and is all I want to be. I never wished for anything in my entire life, but to be happy, but why is it that, that simplest dream wouldn’t be mine to have? I’ve been dreaming of that precious dream of mine ever since I was a little girl, I’ve been chasing that dream, but now, as this pain is killing me now, chasing that dream will never be mine in mind anymore. I’m tired of waiting, I’m tired of asking, and I’m tired of chasing the dream that will never be mine. I’m done waiting, I’m done a

He would have said more but I immediately cut it off with a question that made him stop. A sad smile crept on my lips. "If ever I die, will I be happy too?"

"It does. " "The world needs your smile. " He rolled his eyes. "God needs my frown. He should not be pleased with his children. " She wondered why she thought of a quote that was contradictory with her statement but backed his up. She frowned. Don't care what the world needs, it said. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because the world wants people who come alive. She remembered that it had been Howard thurmans quote. But could everybody be born an original? Here was an original sitting before her, ignorant that he was misled by a thinker whose philosophy did her no good. She wanted to tell him that life wasn't about pursuing happiness... You would end depressed. Happiness was with

Killian looked at his brother, something easy and unhurried passing between them, and then back at me. "I spent most of my life confusing happiness with winning," he said slowly. "Getting something before someone else could, proving a point, coming out ahead. I think this is the first time in my life I actually understand what happiness is. Not a destination you arrive at and own. Just this." He gestured at the quiet house around us, the sleeping children down the hall, the garden visible through the window, his small, careful paintings still visible on the mural wall. "Just being here, completely, without any part of it belonging to someone else's competition."

I turned back to look at them again and again as I walked away. For a brief moment, it felt as if I could see the Wendy of my past life standing among the crowd, waving at me. Her lips moved, as though she were saying something. "This time, make sure you find true happiness!" I nodded silently to myself. I knew I would.