Enjoyment Quotes - Page 40

• The majority of people don't want to plan. They want to be free of the responsibility of planning. What they ask for is merely some assurance that they will be decently provided for. The rest is a day-to-day enjoyment of life. That's the explanation for your Father Divines; people naturally flock to anyone they can trust for the necessities of life... They are the backbone of a community--solid, trust-worthy, essential.

  B. F. Skinner

  Father, Responsibility, People

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• To be a woman condemned to a wretched and disgraceful punishment is no impediment to beauty, but it is an insurmountable obstacle to power. Like all persons of real genius, her ladyship well knew what accorded with her nature and her means. Poverty disgusted her -subjection deprived her of two-thirds of her greatness. Her ladyship was only a queen amongst queens: the enjoyment of satisfied pride was essential to her sway. To command beings of an inferior nature, was, to her, rather a humiliation than a pleasure.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Queens, Real, Mean

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• I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety. I am ready to try this for the next ten thousand years, and exhaust it. How sweet to think of! my extremities well charred, and my intellectual part too, so that there is no danger of worm or rot for a long while. My breath is sweet to me. O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Thanksgiving, Running, Sweet

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.373, Penguin

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• But the most obvious fact about praise — whether of God or anything — strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise unless (sometimes even if) shyness or the fear of boring others is deliberately brought in to check it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Player, Thinking, Games

  "Joyful Christian".

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• Perhaps the most valuable thing he taught me (his father) was that there is no contradiction between devotion to work and enjoyment of life and people

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  Father, People, Taught

  Ahmed Zewail (2004). “Voyage Through Time: Walks of Life to the Nobel Prize”, p.17, American Univ in Cairo Press

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• I hated school. I don't trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.

  Stephen King

  Teenager, Writing, School

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• I'm all for rational enjoyment, and so forth, but I think a fellow makes himself conspicuous when he throws soft-boiled eggs at the electric fan

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Thinking, Eggs, Fans

  P. G. Wodehouse, David A. Jasen (1997). “Enter Jeeves: 15 Early Stories”, p.84, Courier Corporation

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• Art thou a type of beauty, or of power, Of sweet enjoyment, or disastrous sin?

  Sir Aubrey de Vere, 2nd Baronet

  Sweet, Art, Sin

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• I think its just important to do something. Some sort of exercise. I get asked this a lot. It's important to do something you enjoy, and something that is useful for yourself. You get far more enjoyment out of something you like to do, so you're more likely to stick with it.

  Nick Youngquest

  Exercise, Thinking, Important

  Source: in.askmen.com

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• Wealth that stays to give enjoyment and satisfaction to its owner comes gradually, because it is a child born of knowledge and persistent purpose.

  George S. Clason

  Children, Giving, Purpose

  George S. Clason (2013). “The Richest Man In Babylon”, p.59, Lulu.com

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• Miserable is the man who loves a woman and takes her for his wife, pouring at her feet the sweat of his skin and the blood of his body and the life of his heart, and placing her in the hands of the fruit of his toil and the revenue of his diligence; for when he slowly wakes up, he finds that the heart that he endeavored to buy is given away freely and in sincerity to another man for the enjoyment of its hidden secrets and deepest love.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Men, Blood

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• True enjoyments also keep people from vice.

  Samuel Johnson

  People, Vices

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• There can be no higher enjoyment found in this world that is found in pulling souls out of the fire and bringing them to Christ.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Fire, Soul, World

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• But beneath it all will run that Sicilian understanding that the underside of joy is grief, that the face of sacrifice and suffering is the dark mirror image of pleasure and enjoyment, that every moment of arrival is to be treasured and enjoyed in the full knowledge that it has brought us a moment closer to the moment of departure.

  Francine Prose

  Running, Grief, Dark

  Francine Prose (2011). “Sicilian Odyssey”, p.26, National Geographic Books

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• As human beings we have the capacity to enjoy limitless, blissful happiness...there is nothing wrong with having pleasures and enjoyments. What is wrong is the confused way we grasp onto these pleasures, turning them from a source of happiness into a source of pain and dissatisfaction. It is grasping and attachment that is the problem, not the pleasure themselves.

  Thubten Yeshe

  Pain, Confused, Attachment

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• No one can afford to look downward for his enjoyments.

  David Starr Jordan

  Looks

  David Starr Jordan (1903). “The Call of the Twentieth Century: An Address to Young Men”

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• Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.

  William S. Burroughs

  Weed, Mean, Alcohol

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.50, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• What are the "ifs" and "buts" that limit my enjoyment of life?

  John Powell

  Ifs And, Limits, Ifs

  John Powell (1995). “A Life-Giving Vision: How to Be a Christian in Today's World”, Thomas More Press

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• We are not immortal ourselves, my friend; how can we expect our enjoyments to be so? We have no rose without its thorn; no pleasure without alloy. It is the law of our existence; and we must acquiesce.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Law, Rose, Pleasure

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.322, Rowman & Littlefield

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• It was truly very good reason that we should be beholden to God only, and to the favour of his grace, for the truth of so noble a belief, since from his sole bounty we receive the fruit of immortality, which consists in the enjoyment of eternal beatitude.... The more we give and confess to owe and render to God, we do it with the greater Christianity.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Giving, Grace, Fruit

  Michel de Montaigne “Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• It is one of history's greatest ironies that, over the centuries, the pursuit of pleasure has resulted in more pain than enjoyment.

  Mardy Grothe

  Pain, Irony, Pleasure

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• The fact is that those who do not see themselves but who see others, who fail to grasp of themselves but who grasp others, take possession of what others have but fail to possess themselves. they are attracted to what others enjoy but fail to find enjoyment in themselves.

  Zhuangzi

  Facts, Failing, Enjoy

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• It is vain to speak of approaching judgment when finding our place, our portion, and our enjoyment in the very scene which is to be judged.

  Charles Henry Mackintosh

  Speak, Judgment, Scene

  Charles Henry Mackintosh (2012). “Notes on the Pentateuch - Volume I: Genesis”, p.178, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Racism is an attack on the very notion of the universality of human rights. It systematically denies certain people the enjoyment of their full human rights because of their colour, race, ethnicity, descent or national origin.

  Irene Khan

  Rights, Race, Ethnicity

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• I'm a person who is only invested in the pleasures and enjoyments of life. All the rest is left to the men. I've always remained what you might call "feminine" about the whole [work] thing.

  Diana Vreeland

  Men, Might, Pleasure

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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