Quotes About Enjoyment

Doing what you're supposed to do is always boring. I can't imagine anything worse than being required to have fun.

Hoverboarding looks so fun, like being a bird. But actually doing it is hard work. Shay shrugged. Being a bird's probably hard work too. Flapping your wings all day, you know?

Must we go tinkering about with Nature before we can enjoy it?

Of what importance is it that I have learned, with every schoolboy, that the world is round? Man needs but little earth for enjoyment, and still less for his final repose.

ill-humour resembles indolence: it is natural to us; but if once we have courage to exert ourselves, we find our work run fresh from our hands, and we experience in the activity from which we shrank a real enjoyment.

Ich lebe so glückliche Tage, wie sie Gott seinen Heiligen aufspart; und mit mir mag werden was will, so darf ich nicht sagen, daß ich die Freuden, die reinsten Freuden des Lebens nicht genossen habe.

There is no higher or purer pleasure than to sit with closed eyes and hear a naturally expressive voice recite... a play of Shakespeare's.

He in my bosom with malicious zeal For that fair image fans a raging fire; From craving to enjoyment thus I reel, And in enjoyment languish for desire.

para mí los goces del espíritu consisten en un libro, en un hoja, en una página; sólo los libros pueden hacernos soportable y hasta deliciosa una larga noche de invierno, y hacernos llevar una dichosa vida que reanime todos nuestros miembros.

La vita è troppo breve per bere vini mediocri

Da wo wir lieben, ist Vaterland; wo wit geniessen, ist Hof und Haus.

Let's enjoy the beautiful things we can see, my dear, and not think about those we cannot.

Wow. Listen. Just kiss both kinds of face. Maybe you'll enjoy them equally. That's fine. Let love rule. It's the nineties. Get used to it.

Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it

I am often asked why I write, and I don't know really—I just like it." —John Ashbery

With full good will they all fell to, And sought no other sauce thereto Than appetite.

As Maximus further concludes, the three laws exhibit the principal ends to which human nature is called: the natural law grants us the fundamental enjoyment of being (?? ?????), the scriptural law the enjoyment of a higher well-being (?? ?? ?????), the spiritual law the beatific grace of eternal well-being (?? ??? ?? ?????).

He held the book up to his nose. It smelled like Old Spice talcum powder. Books that smelled that way were usually fun to read. He threw the book onto his bed and went to his suitcase. After rummaging about for awhile, he came up with a long, narrow box of chocolate-covered mints. He loved to eat candy while he read, and lots of his favorite books at home had brown smudges on the corners of the pages.

To become bored with eating is to be bored with life.

The mirror was often used as a symbol of the vanity of woman. The moralizing, however, was mostly hypocritical. You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, you put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting Vanity, thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for your own pleasure.

The joint realization that we live in a remarkable cosmic cocoon and can create languages and rocket ships in an otherwise apparently dumb universe ought to be transformative. Until we find other self-aware intelligences, we are how the universe thinks. We might as well start enjoying one another's company.

Practicing the presence of God is not getting more of God; it is becoming aware of, enjoying, and resonating with the unbroken union we already have in Jesus.

she is utterly incapable of enjoying a thing. Except the bar of the Colombe and a good flask of wine. And we all know what that leads to.

Interestingly enough, it is now known that play behaviour is not limited to birds and mammals. Monitor lizards, turtles, crocodiles and even fish and cephalopods have been reported to engage in behaviours that do not seem to serve any other purpose than simply having fun.27,28 If all these animals could play, we are certain that Mesozoic dinosaurs could, too.