Enjoyment Quotes - Page 16

• The luxury of doing good surpasses every other personal enjoyment.

  John Gay

  Luxury, Giving, Doing Good

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• God smiles when we praise and thank Him continually. Few things feel better than receiving heartfelt praise and appreciation from someone else. God loves it, too. An amazing thing happens when we offer praise and thanksgiving to God. When we give God enjoyment, our own hearts are filled with joy.

  William Law

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Appreciation

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  The biggest mistake I made and what cost me a lot of enjoyment in my life, was assuming that everybody cared. They don’t.

  John Mayer

  Mistake, Cost, Assuming

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• But he found that a traveller's life is one that includes much pain amidst its enjoyments. His feelings are for ever on the stretch; and when he begins to sink into repose, he finds himself obliged to quit that on which he rests in pleasure for something new, which again engages his attention, and which also he forsakes for other novelties.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Pain, Feelings, Attention

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Joseph Pearce (2008). “Frankenstein”, p.155, Ignatius Press

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• Infatuation was a good thing. It gave spice to life, and added to its enjoyment... But it was different from love. Love was worth everything, and couldn't be exchanged for anything.

  Paulo Coelho

  Different, Spices, Infatuation

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• There's a line in The Barretts of Wimpole Street - you know, the play - where Elizabeth Barrett is trying to work out the meaning of one of Robert Browning's poems, and she shows it to him, and he reads it and he tells her when he wrote that poem, only God and Robert Browning knew what it meant, and now only God knows. And that's how I feel about studying English. Who knows what the writer was thinking, and why should it matter? I'd rather just read for enjoyment.

  Susanna Kearsley

  Thinking, Play, Work Out

  Susanna Kearsley (2016). “The Susanna Kearsley Collection”, p.469, Allison & Busby Ltd

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• Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good.

  Saadi

  Travel, World, Quitting

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• Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the keenest enjoyment.

  Jane Austen

  Cousin, Mrs Bennet, Expectations

  Huw Thomas, Jane Austen (2014). “Exploring Pride and Prejudice (Includes Jane Austen's Original Novel): A Journey through the 1995 TV Series Starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle”, p.54, BookBaby

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• I want a simple, ordinary life . . . like humans enjoy.

  Deborah Harkness

  Simple, Ordinary, Want

  Deborah Harkness (2011). “A Discovery of Witches: A Novel”, p.83, Penguin

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• With regard to power, women don't have the vanity men have. They don't need to make power visible, they only want the power to give them the other things they want. Security. Food. Enjoyment. Revenge. Peace. They are rational, power-seeking planners, who think beyond the battle, beyond the victory celebrations. And because they have an inborn capacity to see weakness in their victims, they know instinctively when and how to strike. And when to stop. You can't learn that.

  Jo Nesbo

  Revenge, Thinking, Men

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• There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world -- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles. The more you understand, the more you look, the greater is your enjoyment of life and your sense of peace. That's all there is to it. Everything else is fun and games. If an activity is not grounded in "to love" or "to learn" it does not have value.

  Anne Rice

  Beauty, Fun, Games

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• Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person's capacity to act.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Positivity, Boredom, Anxiety

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

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• And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not necessarily increase either the dignity or enjoyment of a young lady.

  Jane Austen

  Balls, Lessons, Doe

  Jane Austen (2013). “Jane Austen Collection: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion, Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, Love and Friendship and Other Austin Works”, p.1902, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Alas, woman is faithful as long as she loves, but you demand that she be faithful without love and give herself without enjoyment. Who is cruel then, woman or man?

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Men, Long, Giving

  Gilles Deleuze, Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch (1971). “Masochism”, Zone Books (NY)

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• Joy is a deeply felt contentment that transcends difficult circumstances and derives maximum enjoyment from every good experience.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Joy, Contentment, Difficult

  Charles R. Swindoll (2014). “Insights on John”, p.447, Tyndale House

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• Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest, just as it is the experiences of hunger and thirst that make food and drink such pleasures.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Blessing, Hands, Giving

  Elisabeth Elliot (2006). “Discipline: The Glad Surrender”, p.126, Revell

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• We therefore work, not for the work's sake, but for money—and money is supposed to get us what we really want in our hours of leisure and play. In the United States even poor people have lots of money compared with the wretched and skinny millions of India, Africa, and China, while our middle andupper classes (or should we say "income groups") are as prosperous as princes. Yet, by and large, they have but slight taste for pleasure. Money alone cannot buy pleasure, though it can help. For enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy.

  Alan Watts

  Art, Class, Play

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.58, Souvenir Press

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• Walking and talking are two very great pleasures, but it is a mistake to combine them. Our own noise blots out the sounds and silences of the outdoor world; and talking leads almost inevitably to smoking, and then farewell to nature as far as one of our senses is concerned. The only friend to walk with is one who so exactly shares your taste for each mood of the countryside that a glance, a halt, or at most a nudge, is enough to assure us that the pleasure is shared.

  C. S. Lewis

  Philosophy, Mistake, Farewell

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• For if you know what you want, and will be content with it, you can be trusted. But if you do not know, your desires are limitless and no one can tell how to deal with you. Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.

  Alan Watts

  Desire, Want, Limitless

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.78, Souvenir Press

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• What is the next step, the practical application? —I will answer that the absolutely vital thing is to consolidate your understanding, to become capable of enjoyment, of living in the present, and of the discipline which this involves. Without this you have nothing to give.

  Alan Watts

  Discipline, Giving, Understanding

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• It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you're on.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Gun, Television, Determined

  "Alfred Hitchcock Presents", TV Series (1955–1962). "Momentum", www.imdb.com. 1956.

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• To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living. Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Enemy, Meat, Pork

  Anthony Bourdain (2011). “Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw”, p.65, A&C Black

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• It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.

  Bram Stoker

  Resilience, Principles, Matter

  Bram Stoker, Mort Castle (2014). “Dracula”, p.315, "F+W Media, Inc."

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• Beauty without wit offers nothing but the enjoyment of its material charms, whilst witty ugliness captivates by the charms of the mind, and at last fulfils all the desires of the man it has captivated.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Witty, Men, Mind

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• Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Sweet, Pain, Desire

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.766, Simon and Schuster

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