Only direct control of experience, the ability to derive moment-by-moment enjoyment from everything we do, can overcome the obstacles to fulfillment. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“Righteous, I like that. Kinda fitting when you think about it. If we danced and shared music, we'd be too busy en-joy-in'… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
“the time of the actual enjoyment is short and swift, and made much shorter through their own fault. For they dash from… — Seneca Copy Share Image
It is by his activities and not by enjoyment that man feels he is alive. In idleness we not only feel that… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fire-side enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturb'd retirement,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
India is essentially a karmabhumi (land of duty) in contradistinction to bhogabhumi (land of enjoyment). — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I'd like to think at some point instead of it being a woman's film or a man's film, it is just a… — Sandra Bullock 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
In our excessive involvement in the affairs of other countries, we are not only living off our assets and denying our own… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Like many works of literature, Hollywood chooses for its villains people who strive for social dominance through the pursuit of wealth, prestige,… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
Ah! how much a mother learns from her child! The constant protection of a helpless being forces us to so strict an… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I'm always very fearful when academics get ahold of comedy. Comedy is such a clear thing - people laugh, or they don't… — Lorne Michaels Copy Share Image
The pleasures arising from a right understanding of the divine testimonies are of the most delightful order; earthly enjoyments are utterly contemptible… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
When we will think deeply, then we will realize that enjoyment is short lasting and reality of it is suffering. — Bhakti Charu Swami Copy Share Image
But the vagrant owns the whole vast earth that ends only at the nonexistent horizon, and his empire is an intangible one,… — Isabelle Eberhardt Copy Share Image
My great joy is to give form to reality. Music is a great release, a great enjoyment to me. Eventually I'd like… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
So I commended enjoyment, because a man has nothing better under the sun than to eat, drink and be merry. — Bible Copy Share Image
Punishment when awarded with due consideration, makes the people devoted to righteousness and to works productive of wealth and enjoyment. — Chanakya Copy Share Image
We learn best when we're intrinsically motivated - that is, when we try something new for the sheer enjoyment of the experience. — Rachel Simmons Copy Share Image
Insincerity in a man's own heart must make all his enjoyments, all that concerns him, unreal; so that his whole life must… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Cubists are entitled to the serious attention of all who find enjoyment in the colored puzzle pictures of the Sunday newspapers. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
It is impossible to have a lively hope in another life, and yet be deeply immersed in the enjoyments of this. — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
If your work becomes a source of enjoyment and a challenge, it will never seem like work - it will be fun.… — Kapil Dev Copy Share Image
I take a lot of enjoyment out of imagining myself as... I dunno... a wall. I keep adding bricks to my wall… — Johanna Konta Copy Share Image
May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and… — Richard L. Evans Copy Share Image
“Happiness in something you need to search for, It comes from inside. You can pull it out from inside by satisfaction and… — Vijay Dhameliya Copy Share Image
Tis hard with respect to Beauty, that its possessor should not have a life enjoyment of it, but be compelled to resign… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
With piracy, people think it's about getting stuff for free. It's not - it's about getting rid of the middleman that stands… — Graham Linehan Copy Share Image
The less you can enjoy, the poorer, the scantier yourself - the more you can enjoy, the richer, the more vigorous. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
The price of apparent happiness and enjoyment is the neglect of the spontaneous active energies of the acting members. — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Budget thy expenses that thou mayest have coins to pay for thy necessities, to pay for thy enjoyments, and to gratify thy… — George S. Clason Copy Share Image
Is it that Nature, attentive to the preservation of mankind, increases our wishes to live, while she lessens our enjoyments, and as… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure,… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
I like pot, I enjoy pot, I like to smoke it. But, the one thing I don't like about pot is the… — David Cross 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
