pursuit-of-happiness

No, you do not have to live as a man; it is an act of moral choice. But you cannot live as anything else__nd the alternative is that state of living death which you now see within you and around you, the state of a thing unfit for existence, no longer human and less than animal, a thing that knows nothing but pain and drags itself through its span of years in the agony of unthinking self-destruction.

It is in the nature of man to want what he does not have. This modern concern for happiness seems a real testimony of its absence.

We are on strike, we, the men of the mind.We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned rewards and unrewarded duties. We are on strike against the dogma that the pursuit of one's happiness is evil. We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt.

Let people be the pursuits of happiness, you be the pursuit of perfection.

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade...

Pleasure feels better than pain. Make the pursuit of pleasure your guide.

There is far more happiness in a life that is your own than a life in which you are handed the lines to say and shown the gestures to make. Do not ever be ambitious.

From the beginning, Judeo-Christian principles have been the foundation for American public dialogue and government policy. They serve as the solid basis for political activism in support of a better socioeconomic environment. Found in American homes, truth from the Hebrew Christian Bible has enabled individual liberty to prevail over secular empires because it is a practical message about reality from man__ Creator. In their quest for liberty, Americans focused upon the conspicuously self-evident __aws of Nature and of Nature__ God._ It is the governing character of these principles (laws), such as humility, the Golden Rule, and the Ten Commandments, that leads to success. This is the sure foundation upon which man__ right to __ife, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness_ rests. Called __irtue_ by America__ Founding Fathers, the impartial and divine element frees man to do what is right. __here the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty_ (2 Cor. 3:17).

Learn to say no to demands, requests, invitations, and activities that leave you with no time for yourself. Until I learned to say no, and mean it, I was always overloaded by stress. You may feel guilty and selfish at first for guarding your down- time, but you__l soon find that you are a much nicer, more present, more productive person in each instance you do choose to say yes.

It could be said of him that while others chased the mirage of happiness, he was happy with being content.

The pursuit of joy is the purpose of life.

I have pursued the comfort of things, when all along Comfort is a Person.

The pursuit of prosperity shouldn't stop you from the pursuit of happiness.

I had a dream that I would be successful and happy in life_I woke up running out of breath, because I__e been chasing this dream for quite a while now.

I couldn__ peel my eyes off her face or her body. Even if she had asked me not to follow her, I would have followed anyway. I was in a Norah state of mind.

I am giving my best in the pursuit of my most cherished dreams.

What economists and political scientists today call the __ational choice of individuals,_ but what Smith called __he individual pursuit of happiness,_ leads according to this view in a mechanical way to general welfare. As Alexander Pope in his Essay on Man put it: __rue Self Love and Social are the same._ While this is the foundation of liberal capitalism, Marx__ dialectical materialism is not different in its selection of the economy as the prime mover. In this way the economy becomes the most important purpose of society. Fortunately, the economy has laws of causation, or, at least, that is what economists would like us to believe. Statistics are gathered to provide an objectified view of reality that enables social engineering. The individual and the collective are simultaneously put in an economic framework that is secular not in the sense that it is nonreligious, since individuals can rationally pursue religious ends, but in the sense that a God-given order of society has been replaced by an order that is constantly produced by homo economicus_ (p. 41).

One of the most lucrative privileges of an empty handed is the easiness to embrace wholeheartedly!