Enjoyment Quotes

Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust.

Every man that has felt pain knows how little all other comforts can gladden him to whom health is denied. Yet who is there does not sometimes hazard it for the enjoyment of an hour?

True enjoyments also keep people from vice.

An unrestricted satisfaction of every need presents itself as the most enticing method of conducting one's life, but it means putting enjoyment before caution, and soon brings its own punishment.

Art thou a type of beauty, or of power, Of sweet enjoyment, or disastrous sin?

Heap up great wealth in your house, if you wish, and live as a tyrant, but, if the enjoyment of these things be lacking, I would not buy the rest for the shadow of smoke as against happiness.

States of profound happiness, like all other forms of intoxication, are apt to befuddle the wits; intense enjoyment of the present always makes one forget the past.

Our capacity for production and enjoyment is a function, in the last analysis, of our character, our integrity.

Perfection is one thing and enjoyment another; these two having different ends, engage men differently.

The progress of the world means more enjoyment and more misery too.

The Cubists are entitled to the serious attention of all who find enjoyment in the colored puzzle pictures of the Sunday newspapers.

While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life.

Put a thorn in every enjoyment, a worm in every gourd, that would either prevent my being wholly thine, or in any measure retard my progress in the divine life.

I sincerely pray that all the members of the human family may, in the time prescribed by the Father of us all, find themselves securely established in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and happiness.

Greediness of getting more deprives... the enjoyment of what it had got.

Not dancing well, I never danced at all--and how grievously has my heart ached when others where in the full enjoyment of that conversation which I had no right even to partake.

Tis hard with respect to Beauty, that its possessor should not have a life enjoyment of it, but be compelled to resign it after, at the most, some forty years lease

The fullest instruction, and the fullest enjoyment are never derived from books, till we have ventilated the ideas thus obtained in free and easy chat with others.

Selfishness, eager for a heaven of enjoyment, is quite a different thing in the soul from love and purity and truth, yearning together for what is their natural element.

It is the difference betwixt lust and love that this is fixed, that volatile. Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.

Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.

[I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.

We seek knowledge only because we desire enjoyment, and it is impossible to conceive why a person who has neither desires nor fears would take the trouble to reason.

Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, andwhatever days fortune will give, count themas profit.

...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment.

The true spirit of delight the exultation the sense of being more than Man which is the touchstone of the highest excellence is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.

To be able to use leisure intelligently will be the last product of an intelligent civilization.

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Every luxury must be paid for and everything is a luxury starting with being in the world.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

Let us have Wine and Women Mirth and Laughter Sermons and soda-water the day after.

There are three ingredients in the good life learning earning and yearning.

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

Explore your inner creative genius through the medium you love and enjoy the journey!

Don't let yesterday’s storm keep you from enjoying today's sunshine.

Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live.

At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel.

It is sad that people need alcohol to make them happy.

The joy from eating does not come from the exclusivity of the food, but instead from the sensitivity that we eat it with.

A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.

The lover drinksand the cup-bearer pours.The lover thinksbut the cup-bearer knows:love begets love.Since this wine is love, then this cup is love, then this tavern is love, then this life is love.

Serving others is one of the bases for you to have or to enjoy a fullness of purpose in life.

Don’t spend your money on luxuries. Save it and secure a safe future. Don’t crave for quick satisfaction.

Challenges will come that is inevitable. But they can’t easily destroy your future than your own appetite.

I have always enjoyed my solitude. It gives me time to think and to write.

There is never enough time to enjoy what you love.

You can’t enjoy art or books in a hurry.

Peace is a place of unhindered enjoyment of friendship beyond guilt, suspicion, blame of inferiority

Righteous, I like that. Kinda fitting when you think about it. If we danced and shared music, we'd be too busy en-joy-in' life to start a war.