“...the aim of civilization is to translate everything into enjoyment.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something. — Chauncey Depew Copy Share Image
As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
“The aim of civilization is to enable us to get enjoyment out of everything.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well. — Steffi Graf Copy Share Image
Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Excitement about things became a habit, a part of my personality, and the expectation that I should enjoy new experiences often engendered… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“Go,eat your bread with enjoyment, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already approved what you do” — Eccl. 9 7 Copy Share Image
There are people whom even children's literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
When the philosophers despised riches, it was because they had a mind to vindicate their own merit, and take revenge upon the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
To gain control over the quality of experience, one needs to learn how to build enjoyment into what happens day in, day… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“When Americans say it was great, I know it was good. When they say it was good, I know it was okay.… — Laura Klos Sokol Copy Share Image
“We don’t need occasions to enjoy…. We can steal moments of enjoyment even when we are posed with extreme challenges on life…..” — Arun Prabhu- aradhya Copy Share Image
Let us not be too prodigal when we are young, nor too parsimonious when we are old. Otherwise we shall fall into… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Money is one of the most important subjects of your entire life. Some of life's greatest enjoyments and most of life's greatest… — Robert G. Allen Copy Share Image
Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
My most persistent memory of stand - up is of my mouth being in the present and my mind being in the… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
My life can be so arranged that I can live on whatever I have. If I cannot live as I have lived… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“I am a man. I don’t run. I don’t lie. I don’t cheat, and I don’t use. I don’t find enjoyment in… — Amber Lynn Natusch Copy Share Image
When I do programming in my free time and for my own enjoyment, I really want to have a kind of protection:… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
He had been content with daily labour and rough animal enjoyments, 'till Catherine crossed his path. Shame at her scorn, and hope… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
And rural nature is full of the same quickening spirit-it is, in fact, the exhaustless mine from which the poet and the… — Thomas Cole Copy Share Image
With regard to power, women don’t have the vanity men have. They don’t need to make power visible, they only want the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Weakness for wealth and for collecting and owning things of different kinds; the urge for physical (sensuous) enjoyment; the longing for honour,… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
If Julian had flattered himself that his personal connexion with the capital of the East would be productive of mutual satisfaction to… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
For, when men shall meet as they ought, each a benefactor, a shower of stars, clothed with thoughts, with deeds, with accomplishments,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Grace in women has more effect than beauty. We sometimes see a certain fine self-possession, an habitual voluptuousness of character, which reposes… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
If we analyze the operations of scenes of beauty upon the mind, and consider the intimate relation of the mind upon the… — Frederick Law Olmsted Copy Share Image
Foreign policy is conducted for the convenience and enjoyment of people in Washington. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work. — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
The equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“with a true friend one experiences something in the nature of spiritual enjoyment?” — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
It's important to have your private enjoyments because sometimes that's all we have. — Kay Ryan Copy Share Image
The enjoyment of life is only possible if we could get connected to the spirit. — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
