Quotes About Enjoyment

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

You can't get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

When the children on a holiday have already finished playing all the games before noon and now impatiently say, "is there no one who can think of a new game?," does this show then that these children are more developed and precocious than the children in the same or a previous generation who could make the familiar games last for the whole day? Or does it not rather show that these first children lack what I would call the endearing earnestness that belongs to play?

You must live every day as if it counts, which means to love all of it. Never let a single one go by without noting the color of the sky, the song of the bird, the face of the one you love best. And don't let yourself get talked out of the things you really care about, don't put off what you want to be.

He loved Teddy Roosevelt's words: 'For the benefit and enjoyment of the people. ' He used to say it all the time.

Wasn't I rapt? Wasn't I ravished?

Yo bebí un vino fuerte, como sólo el audaz bebe el placer.

In the words of one high-hope individual, "All the steps involved in getting there are as much fun as actually finishing a project." Consistent with this sentiment, I have found that high-hope people are quite patient with experiencing the course of unfolding events.

Beauty is fleeting. We must enjoy what we have before time steals it away.

Al Czervik Hey everybody, we're all gonna get laid.

Ironically, jobs are actually easier to enjoy than free time, because like flow activities they have built-in goals, feedback rules, and challenges, all of which encourage one to become involved in one's work, to concentrate and lose oneself in it. Free time, on the other hand, is unstructured, and requires much greater effort to be shaped into something that can be enjoyed.

Irónicamente, es más fácil disfrutar el trabajo que el tiempo libre, porque —como ocurre en las actividades donde hay estado de flujo— el trabajo implica metas, reglas y retos. Todo ello contribuye a que uno se involucre en el trabajo, se concentre en él y se deje llevar. El tiempo libre, en cambio, es desestructurado y se requiere un mayor esfuerzo para darle una forma que nos produzca satisfacción.18

Thurston struck up conversations with strangers. He enjoyed food without Instagramming the experience.

a life well lived requires activities that serve no other purpose than the satisfaction that the activity itself generates.

A noi fa piacere che uomini come Beecham esistano: essi incarnano tutto ciò che vi è di oscuro nel nostro mondo, nella nostra società. Ma le cose che hanno fatto di Beecham un mostro? Bè, quelle le tolleriamo, anzi, ne godiamo...

Change isn't something most people enjoye, even if it's progressive change.

We revel in men like Beecham, Moore—they are the easy repositories of all that is dark in our very social world. But the things that helped make Beecham what he was? Those, we tolerate. Those, we even enjoy…

You're walking by the tomb of Battiades,Who knew well how to write poetry, and enjoyLaughter at the right moment, over the wine.

What we're doing is fun - if you have any sense of humor at all!

Why do men have nipples? Because God is a woman and she really wants us to enjoy ourselves, that's why.

French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.

Literature is a cake with many toys baked inside-and even if you find them all, if you don't enjoy the path that leads you to them, it will be a hollow accomplishment. There was a playwright named Heller, American, I believe, who summed it up this way. He said, 'They knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.

Literature is a cake with many toys baked inside- and even if you find them all, if you don't enjoy the path that leads you to them, it will be a hollow accomplishment....'They knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.' p. 90