I was fortunate to live for 3 years in another country, and although we lived in an American compound, still as a… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
How many men I know who are earning dollars aplenty, but who are really earning little of what counts. They are so… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
One didn't really believe till one saw it demonstrated that giving oneself up completely to art, to emotion, to enjoyment, without planning… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
When a poor disconsolated drooping creature is terrified from all enjoyment,--prays without ceasing 'till his imagination is heated,--fasts and mortifies and mopes,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it… — Horace Copy Share Image
When a felon's not engaged in his employment Or maturing his felonious little plans His capacity for innocent enjoyment Is just as… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“If a book is worth reading at all, it is worth reading more than once. Suspense is the lowest of excitants, designed… — William Gerhardie Copy Share Image
When the Artist rises high enough to achieve the Beautiful, the symbol by which he makes it perceptible to mortal senses becomes… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life; meet every rising sun with such sentiments of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I couldn't understand her [my mother's] wiring, all the time. I couldn't understand how she denied herself pleasure and enjoyment in life.… — Dan Fogelman Copy Share Image
So you begin to wonder if Leonia's true passion is really, as they say, the enjoyment of new and different things, and… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
Christians do not practically remember that while we are saved by grace, altogether by grace, so that in the matter of salvation… — George Muller Copy Share Image
Give up all desire for enjoyment in earth or heaven. Control the organs of the senses and control the mind. Bear every… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Education has no more serious responsibility than the making of adequate provision for enjoyment of recreative leisure not only for the sake… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“The pleasures of being a novelist are many. But the greatest by far is the manner in which I live through my… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Contentment, then, is the product of a heart resting in God. It is the soul’s enjoyment of that peace that passes all… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
Everyone in the full enjoyment of all the blessings of his life, in his normal condition, feels some individual responsibility forthe poverty… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“Happiness is an undercurrent of sensitivity and leads a surreptitious life: it is an internal eventuality. We can feel it in stillness… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
The love of liberty was the ruling passion of these Germans; the enjoyment of it, their best treasure; the word that expressed… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
He alone is worthy of the appellation who either does great things, or teaches how they may be done, or describes them… — John Milton Copy Share Image
You were intended not only to work, but to rest, laugh, play, and have proper leisure and enjoyment. To develop an all-around… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
We runners talk about having fun but I don't think anybody believes us. We talk about discipline and endurance, we take care,… — Peter Sagal Copy Share Image
Turns out, the enjoyment I receive from growing the game through content creation and collaborations, and the work I do with the… — Paige Spiranac Copy Share Image
I do not really like vacations. I much prefer an occasional day off when I do not feel like working. When I… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
We may continue to expect the enjoyment of all the blessings of civil and religious liberty, guaranteed by the Constitution. The citizens… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
“You probably have the ability to get what you want. And you likely have everything you need to be completely satisfied. But… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
The riches of heaven, the honor which cometh from God only, and the pleasures at His right hand, the absence of all… — Thomas Hartwell Horne Copy Share Image
I think TV is still, out of every medium, the one that really offers simple easy enjoyment. You've got lots of choice,… — Jill McDonald Copy Share Image
The story is everything, so it always begins with a story.And research is a kind of scaffolding built underneath the story as… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
When we say that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasure of the profligate or that which depends on… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
We cannot count on God to arrange what happens in our lives in ways that will make us feel good.We can, however,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
They deceive themselves who believe that union with God consists in ecstasies or raptures, and in the enjoyment of Him. For it… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Language forms a kind of wealth, which all can make use of at once without causing any diminution of the store, and… — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
My childhood proved to me that there could be no enjoyment of football without community. But it becomes difficult when this community… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
There is nothing little in God; His mercy is like Himself-it is infinite. You cannot measure it. His mercy is so great… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
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