Enjoyment Quotes - Page 5

• The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

  Chauncey Depew

  Would Be, Gone, Action

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• He is the real Guru Who can reveal the form of the formless before your eyes; who teaches the simple path, without rites or ceremonies; Who does not make you close your doors, and hold your breath, and renounce the world; Who makes you perceive the Supreme Spirit whenever the mind attaches itself; Who teaches you to be still in the midst of all your activities. Fearless, always immersed in bliss, he keeps the spirit of yoga in the midst of enjoyments.

  Kabir

  Real, Yoga, Eye

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• Where a man can live, he can also live well.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Philosophical, Men, Live Well

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• Enjoy your life. No curse hangs over you, nor did it ever. No devil chases after your soul. Sing and dance and be merry.

  Christopher Pike

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.

  Anthony Trollope

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

  Forbes, (p. 42), April 1948.

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• Then to have Brett come along and follow in the footsteps, it's so gratifying. I get as much enjoyment out of watching Brett play as I did of entertaining people myself.

  Bobby Hull

  Sports, Play, People

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• Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Men, Ideas, Desire

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• But part of the enjoyment I take in it is finding the most efficient way to do it, which doesn't mean the corrections aren't made. I like to have a feeling of the whole task before I start, even if it changes.

  Bruce Nauman

  Mean, Feelings, Tasks

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• In the best of times, our days are numbered anyway. So it would be a crime against nature for any generation to take the world crisis so solemnly that it put off enjoying those things for which we were designed in the first place: the opportunity to do good work, to enjoy friends, to fall in love, to hit a ball, and to bounce a baby.

  Alistair Cooke

  Love, Life, Friendship

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• As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.

  Steffi Graf

  Leadership, Sports, Fun

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• Maybe it's because I'm getting older, I'm finding enjoyment in things that stop time. Just the simple act of tasting a glass of wine is its own event. You're not downing a glass of wine in the midst of doing something else.

  David Hyde Pierce

  Wine, Simple, Glasses

  "Locations: A Wine Life Hack" by Tara Fass, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 25, 2016.

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• Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.

  Alan Watts

  Motivational, Individual, Incapable

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

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• Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find?

  John Milton

  Contentment, Enjoy

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 8, l. 364

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• Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.

  A. A. Milne

  Happiness, Happy, Thinking

  A. A. Milne (2011). “The House at Pooh Corner”, p.133, Egmont UK

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• He who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day...needs to reorganize his life

  George Matthew Adams

  Fun, Doe, Needs

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• I like pot, I enjoy pot, I like to smoke it. But, the one thing I don't like about pot is the subculture it's spawned. I think it's embarrassing and really juvenile and uncreative

  David Cross

  Weed, Thinking, Smoking

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• I read for interest and enjoyment, and when I cease to enjoy it I stop.

  Tom Stoppard

  Enjoy, Interest, Cease

  Tom Stoppard, Paul Delaney (1994). “Tom Stoppard in Conversation”, p.179, University of Michigan Press

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• Lord of the Rings was just so much enjoyment. It was over about the space of a year that I was filming. It's one of the most enjoyable things I've ever done, so emotional.

  Sean Bean

  Emotional, Years, Space

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• Black music has increased my enjoyment of what I do. It has increased my range, my ability to reach into myself and accept myself.

  Michael Bolton

  Black, Accepting, Range

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• Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.

  Moliere

  Mean, Heaven, Matter

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 225-26, Tartuffe (1664), Act IV, scene 5, 1922.

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• For Solomon, he lived at ease, and full Of honour, wealth, high fare, aimed not beyond Higher design than to enjoy his state.

  John Milton

  Design, Ease, Wealth

  John Milton (2014). “Paradise Regained In Plain and Simple English: A Modern Translation and the Original Version”, p.33, BookCaps Study Guides

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• If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

  Gautama Buddha

  Happiness, Buddhist, Men

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• I quit because I didnt feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game.

  Barry Sanders

  Sports, Winning, Games

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• Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels.

  Thomas Traherne

  Morning, Father, Angel

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.23, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Philosophers are capable of almost endless enjoyment of mutual misunderstanding.

  Lyman Bryson

  Philosopher, Endless, Mutual

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