Quotes About Enjoyment

SECRET #46 Hold on to the good parts for as long as you can.

For me, paradise was the present

Every rational being she believed must have some purpose in life beyond mere pleasure for pleasure's sake. Enjoyment without settled principles, laudable purposes, mental exertions, internal comfort, were meaningless, and how are these to be acquired in the hurry and tumult of the world?

Relationships were reduced to attempts at managing what I feared about them rather than enjoying what I loved about them.

We can thank God for the gift of this day. Enjoy the mess out of today. Receive the blessing of this day. Dance it out at least one time today. Fill in the gaps with prayer throughout the day. And make it a goal to go to bed with a smile on your face because of today. Because here's what I know: God gives us "today" grace.

Retire from work, but not from life.

Enjoyment is always greatest when you have enough contrast to measure it by.

Happiness comes not only from moment-to-moment enjoyment of life, but also from the sense of satisfaction and flow that arises when we are using our capacities to their fullest.

It makes good times even better when you know they are going to end. Like grilled vegetables are better because some of them are partly soot.

Other people just have fun. They have fun, and it comes naturally to them.

When we were eating dinner, sitting on her bed side by side, she said to me, "This is fun." "It weirdly is," I said. "Maybe these are our salad days." "Huh?" "You know. Happy." "What's happy about a salad?" She shrugged. "Ranch," she said.

I hope you found pleasure in it at least. I have always thought impulsive pleasure was the best kind.

We gods eat as we sleep: because it is one of life's great pleasures, not because we have to.

It was one of my favorite things about him, how he admired the world like a jewel, turning its facets to catch the light. A well-made boat, a well-grown tree, a well-told story, these were all pleasures to him.

My purpose is to entertain myself first and other people secondly.

Never mind dear. . . . It would have been too rich anyway. . . . You eat that and I'll let you run out after dinner and buy some candy." "Oh goody." "But dont eat the icecream too fast or you'll have collywobbles.

If I've lost the capacity for, and the enjoyment of relationship, I know things are deeply off in my soul.

Reading for pleasure

Of course I looked sad. But I didn't really feel sad. Or it wasn't a sadness that hurt, not an all-through one. I rather enjoyed it. Beastly, but I did. I sang on the way home. The romance, the mystery of it. Living.

I've never understood people who grind through a book they don't really like, determined to finish it for some unknown reason.

There are few things I like better in life than getting lost in a good book.

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

Like Elizabeth, she enjoyed two "courses" at both dinner and supper

It is a consuming knowledge, an overwhelming sadness for what is lost that makes enjoyment of the present impossible.