Quotes About Enjoyment

Books are for various purposes—tracts to teach, almanacs to sell, poetry to make pastry, but this is the rarest sort of book, a book to read.

Yonder the mountain flowers are out. We drink together, you and I. One more cup--one more cup--still one more cup! Now I am drunk and drowsy, you had better go. But come tomorrow morning, if you will, with the harp!

Moderation is the key-note of lasting enjoyment.

To saunter is a science; it is the gastronomy of the eye. To take a walk is to vegetate; to saunter is to live.

In the life of man there are no two moments of pleasure exactly alike, any more than there are two leaves of identical shape upon the same tree.

So, have you been enjoying yourself these days, Kazami?' I'm having lots of fun.' It was true. That made the sense of regret even keener, that this time in my life would soon be a thing of the past. I felt as if I could understand a little of what my mother had been through, and the feelings she may have had at different times. I wasn't a child anymore, and this made me feel awfully lonesome, and utterly alone.

People tend to think they break up because they get tired of the person they've been with---that it's someone's decision, either yours or theirs. But this really isn't true. Periods in our lives end the way seasons change. That's all there is to it. Human willpower can't change that--which means, if you look at it another way, that we might as well enjoy ourselves until that day arrives.

Tutti di solito sono convinti che le persone si separano perché una si è stancata dell'altra, per propria volontà o per volontà dell'altra persona. Ma non è così. I periodi finiscono, come cambiano le stagioni. Semplicemente. È una cosa su cui la volontà individuale non ha nessun potere. Viceversa, si ha la possibilità, fino a quando verrà quel giorno, di godere ogni momento.

Capii che io non ero il centro del mondo. La quota di sofferenze nella vita non variava certo in rapporto a me. Non ero io che potevo decidere. Allora, pensai, tanto valeva godersi, per quanto possibile, il resto.

One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them.

When I wake up in the morning," E. B. White once wrote, "I can't decide whether to enjoy the world or improve the world; that makes it difficult to plan the day.

People ask me: why do you write about food, and eating and drinking? Why don't you write about the struggle for power and security, and about love, the way the others do? The easiest answer is to say that, like most other humans, I am hungry. —M. F. K. Fisher

Time can fly as fast as it wants, but they will take their pleasant time about living.

Like it was different up here with him now. Less solitary.More complete.The freedom to be and the freedom to enjoy.

Not all of us need to spend every second of our lives trying to get somewhere other than where we are. Not all of us have to grab the brass ring on the carousel. Some of us just like to go around and enjoy the ride.

Is it enough for people to simply enjoy their work without finding it meaningful or being passionate about it? I think it is. In fact, I would prefer to completely rid the concept of meaningful work as the gold standard, and replace it with a new one: doing satisfying work that meet one's needs.

She had always been an unashamed reader of novels.

For I had observed that men did not usually do things unless they liked doing them.

about things you merely like? Would you rather learn how to plant a garden, work with friends to paint a house, or just have a great day with

Remember: It doesn't matter if you never do what you're describing on these pages, because finishing a project is not the issue here. This is about your vision and the free play of ideas for pure enjoyment.

Playing with Your Food

How would it feel to forget about finding your big passion and enjoy the delightful fact that you can learn anything you like and your life will be filled with variety and excitement?

Little by little, the process of writing your ideas in your Daybook will change the way you feel about not following up on every one of your good ideas, because it becomes so clear that planning, designing, and making a record of your ideas in something called a Scanner Daybook isn't making a promise; it's the way inventive people enjoy themselves.

To Savor The Scene, A Book, or A Friend.