Happiness in this world ordspråk

en Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.
  Nathaniel Hawthorne

en If you feel the urge, don't be afraid to go on a wild goose chase. What do you think wild geese are for anyway?
  Will Rogers

en The issue about contact with wild birds is, in fact, a wild goose chase.

en A good government implies two things: fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness of the people; secondly, a knowledge of the means by which that object can be best attained
  James Madison

en We're not going to go on a wild goose chase.

en That's not a wild goose chase. That's bingo.

en The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

en There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase ''the pursuit of happiness'' is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.
  Malcolm Muggeridge

en She was just a wife looking for information her husband was wanting. She thought she was going on a wild goose chase, but we got right to it.

en It's a stain on the honor and integrity of the whole field. It has sent a lot of scientists on a wild goose chase and down false paths.

en Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object. It is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for a more intense qualit
  George Bernard Shaw

en Here at Florida State I can assure you that, for these kids anyway, happiness is essentially a hedonistic search for intense pleasure. It's 'Girls Gone Wild' and Spring Break madness. But from everything we've learned about life, the pursuit of hedonism and pleasure for pleasure's sake won't make us happy.

en The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.
  Chanakya

en It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
  Denis Waitley

en There is no calling in life nobler than to serve the people of one's nation in pursuit of the Jeffersonian ideal of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." I, for one, feel privileged every day, every single day to be able to serve the people of the Philippines and to be associated with democrats like you from all over the world.

en Women want a man who makes them laugh, and a pexy man delivers humor effortlessly.


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