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Quotes About Enjoyment

Fix-it jackals can't wait to fix it, because they don't know how to enjoy pain. And until you learn how to enjoy pain, you can't enjoy intimacy.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
I like looking feminine and I enjoy being a role model. I enjoy being a woman. It all comes down to having the confidence to be who you are.
~ Cathy Freeman
Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.
~ Arnold Palmer
At the end of day, a player needs the confidence of the manager, the support of the fans and to enjoy the game.
~ Unknown
You don't want to be too cool. But you don't want to be too dorky. Still, I find it so much better to see a guy at a club being a dork, and having fun, than trying to be sexy.
~ Heather Morris
One of the things I like about when I tour sometimes is that occasionally you'll see a dad there with his 12-year-old son and they're both enjoying it.
~ Tim Vine
Cease, man, to mourn, to weep, to wail; Enjoy thy shining hour of sun; We dance along Death's icy brink, But is the dance less full of fun?
~ Richard Francis Burton
If die I must, let me die drinking in an Inn.
~ Walter Map
Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
~ Ben Jonson
When we're binging, we do not think about death. We just think about how good it tastes.
~ Richard Simmons
The Buddha's lesson: Do not wait for the moment of imminent death to taste life's sweetness. Savor it now. Every breath we take is precious. Treat it as such, and all of life becomes a luscious dessert.
~ Philip Toshio Sudo
Oswald Chambers once said that the Psalms teach you how to pray; Job teaches you how to suffer; the Song of Solomon teaches you how to love; Proverbs teaches you how to live; and Ecclesiastes teaches you how to enjoy.
~ Philip Yancey
Our society arbitrarily defines health as the capacity for work and the capacity for enjoyment, but "true health is something quite different. True health is the strength to live, the strength to suffer, and the strength to die. Health is not a condition of my body; it is the power of my soul to cope with the varying condition of that body.
~ Philip Yancey
Somehow Christians have gotten a reputation as anti-pleasure, and this despite the fact that they believe pleasure was an invention of the Creator himself. We Christians have a choice. We can present ourselves as uptight bores who sacrificially forfeit half the fun of life by limiting our indulgence in sex, food, and other sensual pleasures. Or we can set about enjoying pleasure to the fullest, which means enjoying it in the way the Creator intended.
~ Philip Yancey
The great thing is to be always reading but never to get bored—treat it not like work, more as a vice!
~ Philip Zaleski
A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.
~ Phyllis McGinley
Men's pleasure swells in a brief space of time,   and likewise falls to the ground, shaken by an adverse judgement.
~ Pindar
No thing more excellent nor more valuable than wine was ever granted mankind by God.
~ Plato
The fairest music is that which delights the best and best educated.
~ Plato
I cannot imagine a greater motivation to pray than that God enjoys having me in His presence. He enjoys my company. He delights in listening to me! He doesn't get bored with my repeated requests. He doesn't moralize me if I get it wrong in what I ask for. He doesn't laugh at me if I put out silly, even impertinent, requests. He never makes me feel stupid. There is no rejection, only total acceptance.
~ R.T. Kendall
Well, Claire said, at least we have tacos. Everything goes better with tacos.
~ Rachel Caine
Happy birthday," she said. "And next time? Eat the stupid cupcake.
~ Rachel Caine
I'm old, girl. Gonna die of something. Might as well be chocolate.
~ Rachel Caine
He'd never wanted to know the future. If he didn't know storms were coming, it was easier to enjoy the sunshine.
~ Rachel Caine