Age Quote by Mignon McLaughlin Download Open image “As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it.” — Mignon McLaughlin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Age Aging Appetite Capacity Enjoyment Grows Shrinks
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Age, that lessens the enjoyment of life, increases our desire of living — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger; growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
While we desire, we do not enjoy; and with enjoyment desire ceases. — William Hazlitt 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, so as… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Aging only happens to people who lose their lust for getting better and disconnect from their natural base of curiosity. — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim. — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
We are prone to seek immediate pleasure or good, however small, rather than remote pleasure or good, however vast. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
We age inevitably: The old joys fade and are gone: And at last comes equanimity and the flame burning clear. — James Oppenheim Copy Share Image
As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
So long as God reveals Himself, or doesn't, He is behaving like God. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
When I first started writing, when I was 15, I would go to work with people and they would tell me my lyrics were… — Sabrina Claudio Copy Share Image
Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion. — Marion Jones Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I am just enjoying the dream of being Milan coach at the age of 40. — Gennaro Gattuso Copy Share Image
Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
I calculated that if I live up to the age of 80, then I end up using 450 toothbrushes in my life. All that… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
