If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Without any hope you cannot talk about suffering. If you talk about suffering without hope it's enjoying our euthanization. I tried to… — Burhan Sonmez Copy Share Image
I used to run the band hockey pool - regular season and playoffs. I would write weekly reports, which were meant to… — Gord Downie Copy Share Image
Israel's [as well as our] enjoyment of the land is contingent on their behavior. Blessings or cruses lie before them; the choice… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
“There is no real light but just small sparks of happiness we should photograph to contain. But if we stop to photograph,… — Cristiane Serruya Copy Share Image
I have had no real gratification or enjoyment of any sort more than my neighbour on the next block who is worth… — William Henry Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
Joy is a deeply felt contentment that transcends difficult circumstances and derives maximum enjoyment from every good experience. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Truthfully, I don't like the binge-watching model. I think that if you give everybody everything all at once, there's very much a… — Timothy Simons Copy Share Image
I get enjoyment out of writing, but I get absolutely no enjoyment out of rewriting, so I don't do much of it.… — Chuck Klosterman 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
Meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The frequent employment of one's will power masters all organs of movement and trains them to perform feats which otherwise would have… — George Hackenschmidt Copy Share Image
After visiting several of America's most fashionable playgrounds, I have reached the conclusion that men who work hard enjoy life most. The… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
“There are many stories and accounts about the winners of lotteries who are jubilant when they win, but whose lives descend into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Let us consider, brethren, we are struggling for our best birthrights and inheritance, which being infringed, renders all our blessings precarious in… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
She carried within herself a great fund of life, and her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movement of… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“For some months I had been ill in health, but was now convalescent, and, with returning strength, found myself in one of… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I'm all for rational enjoyment, and so forth, but I think a fellow makes himself conspicuous when he throws soft-boiled eggs at… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“The best thing that ever happened to you might be your new job, spouse, awards, etc, but I tell you that being… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Our capacity for production and enjoyment is a function, in the last analysis, of our character, our integrity. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The summum bonum of this [Puritan] ethic is the earning of more and more money combined with the strict avoidance of all… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Few enjoyments are given from the open and liberal hand of nature; but by art, labor and industry we can extract them… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Only those to whom God is present in everything and who employ their reason in the highest degree and have true enjoyment… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
Whatever capacities there may be for enjoyment or for suffering in this strange being of ours, and God only knows what they… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
Possession hinders enjoyment. It merely gives you the right to keep things for or from others, and thus you gain more enemies… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
The virtue of art lies in detachment, in sequestering one object from the embarrassing variety. Until one thing comes out from theconnection… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Enjoyment inflames love in some men, and extinguishes it in others: the wind that assists large vessels, upsets small ones. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be like anyone growing up. It's always been about the enjoyment, and I've just never wanted to imitate… — Gugu Mbatha-Raw Copy Share Image
The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigor from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
We can enjoy Heaven now. We can have half of the enjoyment ahead of time by looking forward to it, thinking about… — David Berg Copy Share Image
“The lover drinks and the cup-bearer pours. The lover thinks but the cup-bearer knows: love begets love. Since this wine is love,… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image