to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

Diminish the mass of evils that afflict the human species, increase enjoyment and well-being. And even if the new routes opened up could prolong…

— Antoine Lavoisier

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to…

— Anonymous

Create all the happiness you are able to create: remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you to…

— Jeremy Bentham

Money without wisdom diminishes the pleasure and enjoyment of wealth.

— James Cook

Many of the things that bring delight should not be owned. They are more enjoyed if another's, than if yours; the first day they…

— Baltasar Gracian

We part more easily with what we possess, than with our expectations of what we wish for; because expectation always goes beyond enjoyment.

— Henry Home, Lord Kames

The practice of gratitude is incompatible with negative emotions and may actually diminish or deter such feelings as anger, bitterness, and greed.

— Sonja Lyubomirsky

Our resources will diminish in the coming decades at a time when hunger for energy grows dramatically in China and other parts of Asia.…

— Hermann E. Ott

Major international interventions are doomed unless the US is directly or indirectly involved. But if American politicians, officials and servicemen are to be put…

— Margaret Thatcher

A poet who makes use of a worse word instead of a better, because the former fits the rhyme or the measure, though it…

— Horace Walpole

Maybe that will happen with other countries as well. And so, that's why one of the things that groups like mine that work for…

— John Burroughs

Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence.

— Thomas Paine

“instead of accepting love's strength, we are trying to diminish it so that it fits the world in which we imagine we live.”

— Paulo Coelho

I think you can train yourself to block out some of that pressure and replace it with confidence. It's about preparation, and the more…

— Aaron Rodgers

I am a little older and understand the nature of the business - the older you get the more your skills supposedly diminish, but…

— Randy Moss