Chances are, especially if you are from the United States, that when you read the title “the pursuit of” you thought of the phrase “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”Chances are, especially if you are from the United States, that when you read the title “the pursuit of” you thought of the phrase “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
These lovely words came from the pen of Thomas Jefferson and are a part of the U.S. Declaration of Independence from Great Britain.
As our use of language changes though, the original meaning of that phrase has been lost. When Jefferson wrote “the pursuit of happiness” he meant something similar to “the practice of happiness.”
Think about the whole phrase this way – “life, liberty and the practice of happiness.”
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Chances are, especially if you are from the United States, that when you read the title “the pursuit of” you thought of the phrase “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”<\/p>\n
These lovely words came from the pen of Thomas Jefferson and are a part of the U.S. Declaration of Independence from Great Britain.<\/p>\n
As our use of language changes though, the original meaning of that phrase has been lost. When Jefferson wrote “the pursuit of happiness” he meant something similar to “the practice of happiness.”<\/p>\n
Think about the whole phrase this way – “life, liberty and the practice of happiness.”