Enjoyment Quotes - Page 4

• If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying yourself when you aren't.

  E. Nesbit

  People, Curious, Enjoy

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• By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death is shite, which I suspect it will be.

  Irvine Welsh

  Life, Death, Trainspotting

  Irvine Welsh (2008). “Trainspotting”, p.308, Random House

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• He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

  Thomas Secker

  Thankfulness, Littles, Enjoy

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• Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

  Epictetus

  Military, Philosophical, Discipline

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.316

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• I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Philosophical, Swag, Said

  "Confessions". Book by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, VIII, 1782.

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• It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were of no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer...

  George Muller

  Prayer, Giving Up, Reading

  "A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller" by George Muller, First Part, 1865.

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• They are not long, the days of wine and roses. Out of a misty dream, our path emerges for a while, then closes, within a dream.

  Ernest Dowson

  Death, Dream, Flower

  'Vitae Summa Brevis'

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• A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Mistake, Creativity, Science

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.110

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• And I used to assemble the family to hear because I thought that they were so good that even from the point of view of enjoyment people shouldn't miss them, and I got every word of his that I could, and I could see by hard argument there was only the one way for it.

  Ruth Pitter

  Views, People, Missing

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• Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse.

  Samuel Alexander

  Fruition, Fancy, Impulse

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• I'd work eighteen-hour stretches and fall asleep in my clothes. Then I'd wake up in the middle of the night, brew a pot of tea, and start work again. I was tired, but work had become pure enjoyment.

  Trevor Baylis

  Fall, Tired, Night

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• When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn't climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side enlightened.

  Criss Jami

  Inspirational, Sides, Poet

  Criss Jami (2012). “Venus in Arms”, p.42, Criss Jami

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• Today, luxury resides in everything that is becoming rare: communion with nature, silence, meditation, slowness rediscovered, the pleasure of living out of step with others, studious idleness, the enjoyment of the major works of the mind–these are all privileges that cannot be bought because they are literally priceless.

  Pascal Bruckner

  Nature, Luxury, Silence

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• I'd rather see you drink a glass of wine than a glass of milk. So many people drink Coca-Cola and all these soft drinks with sugar. Some of these drinks have 8 or 9 teaspoons of sugar in them What's the good of living if you can't have the things that give a little enjoyment?

  Jack LaLanne

  Sports, Wine, Glasses

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• The whole period has taught me that I enjoy being part of an ensemble rather than just a front man. Don't get me wrong - I enjoy that too, but I get more enjoyment out of really listening to everyone.

  Damon Albarn

  Men, Listening, Taught

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• The creative consequences of man's imaginative strivings may never make him whole; but they constitute his deepest consolations and his greatest glories.

  Anthony Storr

  Men, Creative, May

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• Luxury is more deadly than any foe.

  Juvenal

  Luxury, Foe

  Juvenal (1940). “Juvenal and Persius”

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• Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.

  Alexander Pope

  Suits, Reason, Instinct

  Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, esq., with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author, an Estimate of his poetical character and writings, and occasional remarks by William Roscoe, esq”, p.92

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• We only do well the things we like doing.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Wells

  "Prisons and Paradise". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1932.

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• Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it's true, it's very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment and perception of form as it is to say... it would be for them to understand computers or going to the moon or something.

  Mark Rylance

  Moon, Thinking, Wife

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• First, you have to have fun. Second, you have to put love where your labour is. Third, you have to go in the opposite direction to everyone else.

  Anita Roddick

  Fun, Opposites, Firsts

  Anita Roddick (1994). “Body and soul: profits with principles, the amazing success story of Anita Roddick & the Body Shop”, Three Rivers Press

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• All real and wholesome enjoyments possible to people have been just as possible to them since first they were made of the earth as they are now; and they are possible to them chiefly in peace. To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over plowshare or spade; to read, to think, to love, to hope: these are the things that make people happy.

  John Ruskin

  Happiness, Real, Thinking

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• From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition.

  James Nasmyth

  Listening, Periods, Form

  James Nasmyth, Samuel Smiles (1883). “James Nasmyth Engineer: An Autobiography”, London : J. Murray

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• Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.

  Claude Debussy

  Philosophy, Medicine, Effort

  "French Music: From the Death of Berlioz to the Death of Fauré". Book by Martin Cooper (p. 136), 1951; later quoted in "Debussy and Wagner", book by Robin Holloway (p. 207), 1979.

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