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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Inspirational
Happiness
You
Will
Sit
Down
Alight
Pursued
Beyond
Always
Quietly
May
Just
Which
Your
Grasp
Butterfly
I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd been afraid of the wrong white people all along - where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony.
Clarence Thomas
People
White
Fearing
Pursued
Klan
Adult
Wrong
Along
Been
Mobs
Up
Left-Wing
Wonder
Afraid
Being
Where
Bigots
Grown
Grown-Up
Starting
Flowing
Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
Jim Rohn
Success
Wisdom
You
Become
Pursued
Attracted
Person
Success Is
We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.
Barack Obama
World
Enemies
Must
Pursued
Real
Found
Defeated
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.'
Viktor E. Frankl
Happiness
Be Happy
Happy
Culture
Characteristic
Must
Pursued
American
American Culture
Ordered
Cannot
Again
Reason
European
I've always followed my heart and pursued my dreams, and I imagine that people find that inspiring. I hope that is the effect I have on my fans and people in general. I definitely want to project a positive energy out into the world.
Britney Spears
Positive
Hope
Dreams
Heart
People
World
Positive Energy
Fans
Energy
Project
Definitely
Out
Find
Followed
General
Pursued
Inspiring
Always
Effect
Want
Imagine
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Great
Every
Pursued
Calling
Greatly
Remember that breath walking - as with any meditation technique - should not be pursued with a grim determination to 'get it right.' The point is to cultivate openness, relaxation and awareness, which can include awareness of your undisciplined, wandering mind.
Andrew Weil
Determination
Remember
Mind
Breath
Awareness
Meditation
Relaxation
Point
Pursued
Openness
Cultivate
Undisciplined
Walking
Get
Any
Wandering
Which
Grim
Should
Your
Include
Right
Technique
Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I have no regrets.
Edward Teller
Would
Threat
Russian
Hydrogen
No Regrets
Pursued
Had
Real
Very
Regrets
Speaking
Now
Bomb
Discouragement, if pursued, is the exercise of an option: to turn from creative to noncreative mental activity, to turn from what is present to what is over, to turn from that which builds to that which destroys.
Hugh Prather
Creative
Destroys
Mental
Pursued
Over
Exercise
Builds
Discouragement
Option
Which
Turn
Activity
Present
We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
James Nicoll
Words
Down
Other
Borrow
Vocabulary
Pockets
Pursued
Beat
Unconscious
New
Occasion
Just
Them
Languages
English
Rifle
But my strength was in singing and songwriting, which was a new discovery for me when I was 18. And I decided if I pursued songwriting, which is what was closest to my heart, then there would be no competition. I would just live my life being myself and living my dream.
Jason Mraz
Life
Myself
Strength
Me
Heart
Being Myself
Competition
My Life
Singing
Live
Living
Dream
Would
Would-Be
Pursued
Songwriting
New
Discovery
Closest
Just
Being
Decided
Which
Then
My strength was in singing and songwriting, which was a new discovery for me when I was 18. And I decided if I pursued songwriting, which is what was closest to my heart, then there would be no competition. I would just live my life being myself and living my dream.
Jason Mraz
Life
Myself
Strength
Me
Heart
Being Myself
Competition
My Life
Singing
Live
Living
Dream
Would
Would-Be
Pursued
Songwriting
New
Discovery
Closest
Just
Being
Decided
Which
Then
Obama's failure to close Guantanamo is yet another instance where the rhetoric of democratic and constitutional rights proved not useful for his international relations, relations which are always pursued in ways that continue to link and fortify securitarian power with the opening of new markets.
Judith Butler
Failure
Rights
Power
International Relations
Relations
Markets
Ways
Obama
Constitutional
Constitutional Rights
Pursued
Instance
New
Opening
Democratic
Another
Always
Proved
Continue
His
Link
Close
Where
Rhetoric
Which
Fortify
Useful
International
Guantanamo
In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes.
Lincoln Steffens
Business
Corruption
Better
Men
Trouble
Cities
Classes
Rarely
Pursued
Caught
Sources
Whence
Realize
Fully
I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.
Naguib Mahfouz
Suffering
Political
Sense
Conviction
Our
Our Lives
Pursued
Had
Also
Times
Persistent
Being
Order
Meaning
Lives
Peculiar
I'm the daughter of two Indian immigrant doctors, and I have an older sister and younger brother, and none of us have pursued medicine as a career. We're all over the artistic side of things.
Aarti Mann
Daughter
Doctors
Sister
Older
Medicine
Side
Immigrant
Indian
Brother
Pursued
Over
None
Artistic
Younger
Younger Brother
Us
Older Sister
Things
Career
Two
I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.
Adam Braun
Life
Education
Family
Parents
Enjoy
Incredibly
Virtue
Our
Valued
Could
Pursued
Attainment
Had
Always
Educational
Grandparents
I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have personally pursued to create a qualitatively beneficial and meaningful impact on society. Perhaps, my belief is along the old saying that 'it is always better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.'
Al Seckel
Saying
Darkness
Better
Light
Old
Active
Society
Beneficial
Approach
Impact
Pursued
Part
Along
Perhaps
Always
Been
Than
Candle
Movement
Curse
Personally
Meaningful
Create
Belief
I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have personally pursued to create a qualitatively beneficial and meaningful impact on society.
Al Seckel
Active
Society
Beneficial
Approach
Impact
Pursued
Part
Been
Movement
Personally
Meaningful
Create
Energy cogeneration on Capitol Hill makes economic and environmental sense and should be pursued for those reasons.
Ander Crenshaw
Environmental
Sense
Energy
Those
Economic
Pursued
Hill
Makes
Should
Capitol
Capitol Hill
Reasons
Over the past decade... while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual,' I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda.
Anita Roddick
Business
Past
Back
Tried
Pursued
Part
Put
Smaller
Idealism
Over
Call
Been
Past Decade
Decade
Movement
Different
While
Agenda
Businesses
Many
Usual
Picasso is a character that has pursued me for a long time and I always rejected. He deserves a lot of respect because I am from Malaga, and I was born four blocks from where he was born.
Antonio Banderas
Time
Character
Me
Respect
Long
Long Time
Born
Pursued
Picasso
He
Because
Always
Am
Blocks
Lot
Where
Deserves
Four
Rejected
If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine.
Arlen Specter
Today
War
Cancer
Research
Think
Saved
President
President Nixon
Mine
Alive
Prolonged
Nixon
Would
Would-Be
Pursued
Had
Cured
Jack
Strains
Many
Including
Lives
The reason the FISA standard is constitutional is that the government is supposed to use FISA surveillance not for criminal investigations but for counterintelligence probes pursued under the president's authority to conduct foreign policy.
Benjamin Wittes
Government
President
Criminal
Constitutional
Pursued
Investigations
Counterintelligence
Supposed
Policy
Foreign
Foreign Policy
Conduct
Surveillance
Authority
Use
Standard
Reason
No one pursued music professionally in my family but they are all music lovers.
Borns
Music
Family
Pursued
No-One
Lovers
Professionally
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