The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
quote by Matthew Arnold
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Strange Pursuit
Intersecting love lines
Drew us closer every day
Always kept your distance
When you felt my presence near you
Love keeps on rolling over
Fly in retreat
I would follow without shame
A stupid spud staggering to the flame
To be had and rehad
Be a victim of the pain
Now its strange, its so strange
Its a strange pursuit
Its a strange pursuit
Its a strange pursuit
I come running like a fatboy
In lead shoes
But like a fatboy
Huff puffing after you
Its hopeless to hope for
The one thing that Im wanting
cause its strange
Its so very strange
Its a strange pursuit
Darling, Im dazzled
But you know Im too frazzled
Its a strange pursuit
Makin my mind up
While it lies in little pieces
Its a strange pursuit
You know its getting tough
When youre getting real rough
Its a strange pursuit
Darling, Im dazzled
But you know Im too frazzled
Its a strange pursuit
Makin my mind up
While it lies in little pieces
It s a strange pursuit
song performed by by Devo
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Don’t bother about elders
.
Who mocks at your pursuit
Had himself had that pursuit
When he had passed that age.
Don’t revere much their words.
11.11.2003
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
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The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying.
quote by David Ogilvy
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Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.
quote by Marcel Proust
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Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.
quote by James Hillman
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The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.
quote by Northrop Frye
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The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.
quote by George Will
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I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.
quote by Andrew Vachss
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The chimerical pursuit of perfection is always linked to some important deficiency, frequently the inability to love.
quote by Bernard Grasset
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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
quote by Denis Waitley
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Check out the Declaration of Independence You think it promises happiness No no no, it talks about the pursuit of happiness. The PURSUIT We've become a nation of wimps We think we're entitled to everything, we want to legislate ourselves into some cozy little cocoon. Well, forget it, Nature Boy. There are no guarantees. Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
quote by Jeff Melvoin
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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
quote by Dag Hammarskjold
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Fruitless pursuits
Interest lives in a pursuit
Pursuit lives in hope and till it
Fades. Regrets revive interest.
Each soul thus pursues in vain.
08.08.2004
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
quote by Logan Pearsall Smith
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The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.
quote by Ralph A. Cram
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The Pursuit Of Happiness
the irony of this pursuit is this:
the more you pursue it
the more it escapes
away from your grasp
you think your hands
finally catch
happiness, and you
hold on to it
tightly like you
are a bird with claws
like an eagle holding
on to the monkey
then blood drifts
on the holy mountains
the paradox lies
not in the taking of happiness
but in giving it away
and then the magic happens
the mountains dance
the caves open
and the rivers sing
it is clear, when you take it
you simply release it
then you are happy
and the pursuit is nothing
but
in simply the giving
the patience of waiting
like a tree whose fruits
are ripe where children
climb
gather the fruits
and chew and swallow
every sweetness of
the pulp,
the fiber
juice sliding smoothly
inside innocent their throats
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Pain is the pleasure
The pursuit of pain to get a reward
Or the pursuit of pain to seek a relief
Gives you pleasure regardless of results
Pain thus constitutes your most of pleasure.
04.07.2004
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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If Someone Loved Leaves They Leave
You have broken my heart.
And again I find myself mending.
To know love is to know,
When the getting over it...
Never ends!
And glad I am to recognize,
Pain is part of realizing...
When to let go.
But the feeling of having known it,
Love...
Is a pursuit that seems to remain forever.
And if someone loved leaves...
They leave.
But love...
Is a pursuit that seems to remain forever.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
quote by George Bernard Shaw
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