The Pursuit of Happiness Quotes

“The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else.”
― Douglas Kennedy, The Pursuit of Happiness

“...hate is a hard thing to sustain. Grief isn't. Grief is something that can stay with you for a very long time”
― Douglas Kennedy, The Pursuit of Happiness

“There are moments when you think you will cry forever. You never do. Eventually, sheer physical exhaustion forces you to stop, to settle, to becalm yourself amidst all the mad turbulence of bereavement.”
― Douglas Kennedy, The Pursuit of Happiness

“I could hear him swallowing hard, trying not to cry. Why is it that we always try to be brave at moments when bravery is futile?”
― Douglas Kennedy, The Pursuit of Happiness

“When it comes to women, men only hear what they want to hear. It’s one of the many failures of their sex.”
― Douglas Kennedy, The Pursuit of Happiness

“At dawn, nothing seems certain... yet everything appears possible.”
― Douglas Kennedy, The Pursuit of Happiness

“죽음의 순간이 찾아오면 우리가 삶이라고 부르는 시간의 무상함으 깨달을 수 있을 뿐이다. 그럼에도 우리는 살아가는 동안 언쟁을 벌이고, 원한을 품고, 분노하고, 질투하고, 싸우고 후회한다. 세상에서 분출되는 온갖 갈등이 인간 존재에 어두운 그림자를 드리운다. 결국 모든 게 죽음으로 막을 내리게 될줄 알면서도 사람들은 포기할 줄 모른다. 우리는 전혀 대수롭지 않은 일에 분노한다. 분노는 근본적으로 중요하지 않은 일에 중요한 의미를 부여한다. 분노는 우리가 언젠가 죽으리라는 걸 잊게 한다.”
― Douglas Kennedy, The Pursuit of Happiness

“...човек става наистина възрастен, когато съумее да прости на родителите си това, че те имат точно толкова недостатъци, колкото който и да е друг човек ... и после да признае, че въпреки ограничеността на собствените си разбирания, те са направили за него най-доброто, на което са способни.”
― Douglas Kennedy, The Pursuit of Happiness

“Because tragedy is so casual, aimless, indiscriminate. When it does hit us, we look for reasons, justifications,”
― Douglas Kennedy, The Pursuit of Happiness

“If there is an abiding theme in The Pursuit of Happiness it is the idea that you come into the world already shaped by other people’s past histories. How you then grapple with everything life throws in your path—and how your own sense of ethics dictates so much about your dealings with life’s larger questions—determines so much. “Character”
― Douglas Kennedy, The Pursuit of Happiness

“Nuostabu, kaip tylėjimas pažadina didžiausias baimes ir priverčia tikėtis blogiausio.”
― Douglas Kennedy, The Pursuit of Happiness

“Vyrai dešimt kartų patrauklesni, kai tiktai klausosi.”
― Douglas Kennedy, The Pursuit of Happiness

“Parisian arrogance meant that nobody was important, nobody counted.”
― Douglas Kennedy, The Pursuit of Happiness