Quotes About Chasing Happiness

#1. We've forgotten that chasing happiness or peace only causes it to seem further away. It's a little like wild kittens. You can chase them all day long and not catch them. But, if you sit quietly and allow them to come to you, you will tame them in time.

Simon Gray

#2. People are chasing happiness
Cars are chasing destinations
Children are chasing new toys
And rest of all are chasing
What's not here yet.

Sayantan Sen

#3. The moment you stop chasing happiness, you become happy.

Sandy Hyatt-James

#4. We are chasing happiness, and don't care about happiness of people who matter. Probably, we got our priorities right, but failed to set an order.
We created a chaos hoping the world would fall in place itself..

Crestless Wave

#5. I wondered, Why have I been chasing happiness my whole life when bliss was here the entire time?

Elizabeth Gilbert

#6. Don't go chasing happiness. Instead, pursue the factors and conditions that create it.

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic

#7. People are so busy chasing happiness- if they would slow down and turn around, they would give it a chance to catch up with them.

Harold S. Kushner

#8. Until you take ownership for your life, you will always be chasing happiness.

Sean Stephenson

#9. I feel compelled to make art that on one hand reflects and sometimes almost creates like a sense of comfort when confronted with the strangeness of the world.

Moby

#10. I never wanted to be that person who leaves 'SNL' and nothing happens.

Rachel Dratch

#11. These fucking women really piss me off,' April said. 'Because instead of being elated by the thought of making their own happiness and chasing some crazy dream, all they want to do is narrow their options and do something safe.

J. Courtney Sullivan

#12. The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.

Ludwig Von Mises

#13. Let us look and see, then, how they manage their concerns - they for whose cause we are to labour, devote ourselves, and grow enthusiastic.

Max Stirner

#14. If you are sufficient for your task, it's too small.

John Piper

#15. 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

#16. Chasing records doesn't keep me on my bike. Happiness does.

Lance Armstrong

#17. And Brutus is an honorable man,

Julius Caesar

#18. What are we all chasing? Nella wonders. To live, of course. To be unbound from the invisible ropes that Johannes spoke of in his study. Or to be happy in them, at least.

Jessie Burton

#19. Happiness doesn't have to be chased ... it merely has to be chosen.

Mandy Hale

#20. I had decided to stop chasing the money, and start chasing the passion.

Tony Hsieh

#21. When your actions are motivated by love, you expend least effort and your energy multiplies, allowing you to create anything you want, with a spirit of play and joy. When you seek power and control over others, you waste energy chasing the illusion of happiness.

Deepak Chopra

#22. I used to be so convinced that happiness was the goal, yet all those years I was chasing after it I was unhappy in the pursuit. Maybe the goal really should be a life that values honor, duty, good work, friends and family.

Robert Downey Jr.

#23. When we persue happiness for it's own sake, it's like chasing the end of a rainbow. It will always elude us. It is when we're committed to some higher purpose that happiness somehow breaks through and comes to dwell with us.

Lawana Blackwell

#24. Because happiness itself is a mythical construct, a dream you humans tell yourselves to get through each day. It is the moon, and you, like the sun, pursue it relentlessly, chasing it around and around, getting nowhere.

Jessica Khoury

#25. Huge difference between being happy at will, and chasing euphoric moments as an escape. One doesn't cost a dime, the other will tax your soul.

T.F. Hodge

#26. 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

#27. People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#28. If you simplify your life, quit chasing the wind, and be quiet before Him, He'll show up.

Chip Ingram

#29. Door money. It's a distraction. It impedes judgment. It blurs focus. Chasing the almighty dollar can become the root of all evil, the bane of one's existence.

Carlos Wallace

#30. If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.

Alan W. Watts

#31. The triumph of advertising in the culture industry is that consumers feel compelled to buy and use its products even though they see through them.

Theodor W. Adorno

#32. I cannot give up chasing after happiness simply because there might be pain down the road.

Jennifer Beckstrand

#33. Pursuit of happiness is like chasing a moving target - a target stuck to the belly of a frolicsome kangaroo.

Majid Kazmi

#34. When we sell paper in Asia, we sell them things such as their corrugator rolls as well as paper.

Anthony Pratt

#35. Vision is the code that decodes every mediocrity out of life.

Auliq Ice

#36. The problem with chasing after happiness was that it wasn't a destination you could reach. It was something that happened along the way.

Lisa Kleypas

#37. People who postpone happiness are like children who try chasing rainbows in an effort to find the pot of gold at the rainbows end ... Your life will never be fulfilled until you are happy here and now ...

Ken Keyes Jr.