As we grow older and mature in each incarnation, we are drawn back to samskaras, to previous interests and pursuits.
Giving peace a chance only gives Saddam Hussein more time to prepare for war on his terms, at a time of his choosing, in pursuit of ambitions that will only grow as his power to achieve them grows.
If it is true that love is the pursuit in another of qualities we lack in ourselves, then in our love of someone from another culture, one ambition may be to weld ourselves more closely to values missing from our own culture.
Minimalism is the pursuit of the essence of things, not the appearance.
To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
To read is to withdraw. To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less. . . selfish.
We have to believe, as creators - just like a doctor doing heart surgery has to believe that he can save that person's life. You have to believe that your pursuit is not just a noble pursuit, but a necessary and inborn pursuit to uncover something.
Passion is the relentless pursuit of those life-enhancing activities or experiences that give our souls meaning.
How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else?
A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
In the Sanghi family, there is no one who has undertaken intellectual pursuits.
I'm on the pursuit of awesomeness, excellence is the bare minimum.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. It is not for the sake of a good public administration that it is required, but for the security in the pursuit of the highest objects of civil society, and of private life.
The pursuit of illusion is not about studying for prizes, or for study's sake. There's no right or wrong, no pass or fail.
We pursue God because, and only because, He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit.
Leaving home' to me means adopting the attitude that the pursuit of the truth is more vital than the pursuit of what society — your home — tells you is important.
Leadership means bringing people together in pursuit of a common cause, developing a plan to achieve it, and staying with it until the goal is achieved.
The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.
Love is not about chasing someone; it's not about being chased or being the one chasing. It's about chasing after dreams and if in that pursuit someone runs parallel to you, that is love.
No one can obtain felicity by pursuit. This explains why one of the elements of being happy is the feeling that a debt of gratitude is owed, a debt impossible to pay. Now, we do not owe gratitude to ourselves. To be conscious of gratitude is to acknowledge a gift.