We dread life's termination as the close, not of enjoyment, but of hope. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Optimal experience is that rare occasion when we feel a sense of exhilaration, a deep sense of enjoyment that is long cherished… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 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
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 don't bring glory or pleasure to God by hiding your abilities or by trying to be someone else. You only bring… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“Life without God is a long and fruitless search for enjoyment, meaning, and fulfillment.” — Jim George Copy Share Image
For if you know what you want, and will be content with it, you can be trusted. But if you do not… — Anonymous 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
What are wanted ...are not Constitutions and Revolutions, nor all sorts of Conferences and Congresses, nor the many ingenious devices for submarine… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Eva is a story of repetition. It is a story where our protagonist faces the same situation many times over and determinedly… — Hideaki Anno Copy Share Image
The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Happiness is less regulated by external circumstances than inward enjoyment. Whoever is happy in the satisfaction of himself feels imperturbable felicity; but… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
I continue to explain that plot inconsistencies in B movies are consistent, and should not be allowed to undermine one's enjoyment of… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
“What men classify as living is often but the discontentment of making oneself itch just to enjoy the scratch.” — Criss Jami 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
In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments. — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Life consists not of a series of illustrious actions or elegant enjoyments. The greater part of our time passes in compliance with… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We've always told stories through music and rhythm and movement, and what we know as western opera has only been around for… — Jake Heggie 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
The love of money as a possession-as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Life would be very pleasant if it were not for its enjoyments. — Robert Smith Surtees Copy Share Image
To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do to-day that you may enjoy to-morrow it is but deferring the enjoyment;… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
“The majority enjoy a young girl as they enjoy a glass of champagne, at one effervescent moment-oh, yes, that is really beautiful,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image