Enjoyment Quotes - Page 15

• ...all enjoyment is dependent upon the frailty of human life and human desires ... if we were to have all we want and to live forever, all enjoyment would be gone.

  Ellen Swallow Richards

  Forever, Desire, Would Be

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• 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 survival.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Beach, Men, Civilization

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.356, Best Books on

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• The boxer's ring is the enjoyment of the part of society whose animal nature alone has been developed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Animal, Boxing, Boxers

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• I wanted to experience both. I wanted worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence. I wanted what the Greeks called kalos kai agathos, the singular balance of the good and the beautiful. I'd been missing both during these last hard years, because both pleasure and devotion require a stress-free space in which to flourish and I'd been living in a giant trash compactor of nonstop anxiety. As for how to balance the urge for pleasure against the longing for devotion...well, surely there was a way to learn that trick.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Beautiful, Stress, Years

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• Definitely in voice-over, you have to be completely uninhibited. More than that, you have to put yourself back into the enjoyment of pretending.

  Molly Quinn

  Voice, Over You, Pretending

  "Molly Quinn Talks SUPERMAN: UNBOUND, Voicing Supergirl, Narrating Audio Books, Favorite Genres and Her Wish to Be a Live-Action Batgirl". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 5, 2013.

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• There's not anything I can fix, change, make better its out to the world. I'd like to say that I like my records but it's for reasons other than enjoyment, it's more like a notch on my revolver, one more down. I am proud of my work, yes but its accomplishment to me and another year of schooling,in making records it can always be better!

  Shelby Lynne

  Years, Accomplishment, Records

  Source: innocentwords.com

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• It's just strange to think that so much of our enjoyment from sports comes from the elevation of arbitrary differences.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Sports, Thinking, Differences

  "Usain Bolt, a Collapse, and an Epic Beer Mile". Interview with Nicholas Thompson, www.newyorker.com. August 27, 2015.

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• In every generation there are a few people who are authentically funny. The cosmetics change. You may not be able to articulate it, and you may laugh at them and get a certain amount of enjoyment. But when you're asleep at night, and you wake up at 3 in the morning, and you're alone in your bed, you know who's really funny.

  Woody Allen

  Morning, Night, Laughing

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• God has frequently to knock the bottom board out of your experience if you are a saint in order to get you into contact with Himself. God wants you to understand this is a life of faith, not a life of sentimental enjoyment of His blessings. ... "Though He slay me yet will I trust Him" - this is the most sublime utterance of faith in the whole of the Bible.

  Oswald Chambers

  Encouragement, Religious, Blessing

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• India is essentially a karmabhumi (land of duty) in contradistinction to bhogabhumi (land of enjoyment).

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Land, India, Duty

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.13, Rajpal & Sons

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• I write songs for myself, songs come out of me, I get enjoyment out of it. Basically, that's it - I get enjoyment out of my songs, I know they're good songs, and know that the people around me who I respect are all getting up on these tunes, and the feedback is really good, so that's it. There are people who will receive them, and don't receive them. Not in a spiritual sense, but in a commercial sense - do these songs treat people, and so far they're working.

  Creed Bratton

  Spiritual, Song, Writing

  Source: www.talive.com

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• Because I want to get a lot done, I can sometimes do that in the flesh. If I don't rest in the Lord, and enjoy him as I should, my action doesn't spring from my identity and enjoyment of Christ. When that happens, I end up getting the glory rather than Jesus.

  Francis Chan

  Jesus, Spring, Identity

  Source: multiplymovement.wordpress.com

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• My childhood proved to me that there could be no enjoyment of football without community. But it becomes difficult when this community is having problems with its identity. That's when we experience all possible forms of nationalist exaggeration.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Football, Childhood, Community

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Enjoyment of football is part of the social context, and I have lost my faith in this social context.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Football, Social, Lost

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think a philistine environment should be bracing for young artists. You have to make your own enjoyment, you've got to make your own art.

  Michael Longley

  Art, Thinking, Environment

  Scottish Review of Books Interview, www.scottishreviewofbooks.org. October 19, 2009.

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• What gets me is, I waited in line for an hour to do this. I could have experienced essentially the same level of enjoyment merely by sticking my finger down my throat.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humor, Levels

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.61, Ballantine Books

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• Foreign policy is conducted for the convenience and enjoyment of people in Washington.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  People, Politics, Convenience

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• When you have a young kid you can't go out much at night, so I spent a lot of time at home, watching movies and cooking dinner with my wife. It felt like what most people experience. White picket fence stuff.So there was some enjoyment of that normalcy, but I have to admit that part of me missed the chaos of touring. I think it's about balance.

  Dan Mangan

  Home, Kids, Night

  Source: www.themetropolist.com

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• Weakness for wealth and for collecting and owning things of different kinds; the urge for physical (sensuous) enjoyment; the longing for honour, which is the root of envy; the desire to conquer and be the deciding factor; pride in the glory of power; the urge to adorn oneself and to be liked; the craving for praise; concern and anxiety for physical well-being. All these are of the world; they combine deceitfully to hold us in heavy bonds.

  Tito Colliander

  Pride, Roots, Envy

  Tito Colliander (1982). “Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth”, p.30, St Vladimir's Seminary Press

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• Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment.

  Sydney Smith

  New Year, Years, Three

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• A man advanced in years that thinks fit to look back on his former life, and calls that only life which was passed with satisfaction and enjoyment, excluding all parts which were not pleasant to him, will find himself very young, if not in infancy.

  Richard Steele

  Men, Thinking, Years

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.325

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• It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. The time present is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.

  Samuel Butler

  Hope, Fate, Men

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• Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

  Hugh Blair

  Men, Mediocrity

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• Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and the heart that melts at the tale of woe. We should not permit ease and indulgence to contract our affections, and wrap us up in a selfish enjoyment; but we should accustom ourselves to think of the distresses of human, life, of the solitary cottage; the dying parent, and the weeping orphan. Nor ought we ever to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.

  Hugh Blair

  Sports, Pain, Selfish

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• That discipline which corrects the eagerness of worldly passions, which fortifies the heart with virtuous principles, which enlightens the mind with useful knowledge, and furnishes to it matter of enjoyment from within itself, is of more consequence to real felicity than all the provisions which we can make of the goods of fortune.

  Robert Blair

  Real, Heart, Knowledge

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