There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
For Solomon, he lived at ease, and full Of honour, wealth, high fare, aimed not beyond Higher design than to enjoy his… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I get the biggest enjoyment from the random and unexpected places. Linux on cellphones or refrigerators, just because it's so not what… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Getting older is a struggle. I always feel that just under the surface of acceptance and enjoyment of the ageing process is… — Michael Sheen Copy Share Image
Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Games give you a chance to excel, and if you're playing in good company you don't even mind if you lose because… — Gary Gygax Copy Share Image
The cream of enjoyment in this life is always impromptu. The chance walk; the unexpected visit; the unpremeditated journey; the unsought conversation… — Fanny Fern Copy Share Image
I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation. — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
But part of the enjoyment I take in it is finding the most efficient way to do it, which doesn't mean the… — Bruce Nauman Copy Share Image
Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable. This is what makes it so disturbing… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
It is all very well to say that children are happier with mud pies and rag dolls than with these elaborate delights.… — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
Among the idle rich, boredom is one of the most common causes of unhappiness. People who have difficulty in earning their living… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
It cannot reasonably be doubted, but a little miss, dressed in a new gown for a dancing-school ball, receives as complete enjoyment… — David Hume Copy Share Image
When you have a young kid you can't go out much at night, so I spent a lot of time at home,… — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
I've been able to sleep with my eyes open ever since I started watching baseball." "Drinking is such a necessity to human… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
You and I have formerly seen warm debates and high political passions. But gentlemen of different politics would then speak to each… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Observers in the full enjoyment of their bodily senses pity me, but it is because they do not see the golden chamber… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Life is short and tedious, and is wholly spent in wishing; we trust to find rest and enjoyment at some future time,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
There are three sorts of pleasures which are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Finding pleasure in the discriminating study of ceremonies… — Confucius Copy Share Image
...As the great Confucius said, "The one who would be in constant happiness must frequently change." Flow. But we keep looking back,… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
[A]ll power is originally vested in, and consequently derived from, the people. That government is instituted and ought to be exercised for… — James Madison Copy Share Image
On the other hand, the pleasure caused by laughter, even on the stage, is not an unadulterated enjoyment; it is not a… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
We shall some day be heeded, and when we shall have our amendment to the Constitution of the United States, everybody will… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Enjoyment of life generally includes being socially connected, having fun, and feeling a sense of purpose. — Mallika Chopra Copy Share Image
Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours. — Robert Toombs Copy Share Image
Whatever enjoyment I might have had at the time would disappear overnight like snow melting on a warm roof. — S.J. Watson Copy Share Image
In spite of this trial, which takes all enjoyment from me, I can never the less, cry out, 'Lord, you fill me… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person's capacity to act. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn't climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I sincerely pray that all the members of the human family may, in the time prescribed by the Father of us all,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Never force yourself to read a book that you do not enjoy. There are so many good books in the world that… — Atwood H. Townsend Copy Share Image
“Don't worry about your future in the past, Otherwise the sense of enjoyment won't last. By Vinay Chawla” — Poignant Painters Copy Share Image
Our pleasures in literature do not, I think, decline with age; last 1st of January was my eighty-second birthday, and I think… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
for true happiness, sane enjoyment, you must look to the country, not town. Only you want one true heart beside you with… — Ellen Buckingham Mathews Copy Share Image
The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints-and, after these, the men and women who get immediate… — Hugh Walpole Copy Share Image
“Thankfulness acknowledges that we can’t own anything, but we can experience everything. And just knowing that makes me thankful.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The debris of civilization litters the landscapes and spoils the beaches. Conservation's concerns now is not only for man's enjoyment-but for man's… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
No, no, I'm a lowbrow. I read [Dostoevsky] more out of obligation than enjoyment. For enjoyment, for me, it's a beer and… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
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