One didn't really believe till one saw it demonstrated that giving oneself up completely to art, to emotion, to enjoyment, without planning… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
Of all the old festivals, however, that of Christmas awakens the strongest and most heartfelt associations. There is a tone of solemn… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
In mortals there is a care for trifles which proceeds from love and conscience, and is most holy; and a care for… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I was fortunate to live for 3 years in another country, and although we lived in an American compound, still as a… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
How many men I know who are earning dollars aplenty, but who are really earning little of what counts. They are so… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Thirsting desires and longings possessed my soul after perfect holiness. God was so precious to my soul that the world with all… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
All acts suppose certain dispositions, and habits of mind and heart, which may be in themselves states of enjoyment or of wretchedness,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
That the sole object and only legitimate end of government is to protect the citizen in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
We delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.… — Anonymous 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
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
Music is what I love and it's what I feel and it's in me and to know that I can do something… — Mariah Carey 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… — William Law Copy Share Image
