The Pursuit of Happiness

The Pursuit of Happiness may refer to:

  • "Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness", a phrase in the United States Declaration of Independence

In films:

  • The Pursuit of Happiness, a 1934 film starring Joan Bennett
  • The Pursuit of Happiness (1971 film), directed by Robert Mulligan, based on Thomas Rogers' novel of the same name
  • The Pursuit of Happiness, a 1988 Australian film directed by Martha Ansara
  • Pursuit of Happiness, a 2001 film starring Frank Whaley, Annabeth Gish, and Amy Jo Johnson
  • The Pursuit of Happyness, a 2006 film starring Will Smith

In music:

  • The Pursuit of Happiness (band), a Canadian power-pop band
  • Pursuit of Happiness (Arthur Loves Plastic album), an album by Arthur Loves Plastic
  • Pursuit of Happiness (Weekend Players album), an album by Weekend Players
  • "Pursuit of Happiness" (Kid Cudi song), a single by Kid Cudi

In books:

  • The Pursuit of Happiness: A Book of Studies and Storwings, a 1983 non-fiction book by Daniel Garrison Brinton
  • The Pursuit of Happiness, a 2001 novel by Douglas Kennedy
  • The Pursuit of Happiness: A History from the Greeks to the Present, a 2006 non-fiction book by Darrin McMahon
  • The Pursuit of Happyness, the 2006 autobiography of Chris Gardner

In television:

  • Pursuit of Happiness, a 1987 – 1988 TV series starring Paul Provenza
  • The Pursuit of Happiness, an American sitcom from 1995

Famous quotes containing the words pursuit of happiness, pursuit and/or happiness:

    “All you can be sure about in a political-minded writer is that if his work should last you will have to skip the politics when you read it. Many of the so-called politically enlisted writers change their politics frequently.... Perhaps it can be respected as a form of the pursuit of happiness.”
    —Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)

    “I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and other branches of a husbandman’s cares.”
    —George Washington (1732–1799)

    “A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.”
    —Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)