Quotes About Enjoyment

Why not seize pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous in such a high-wrought felicity; and she went to her room, and grew steadfast and fearless in the thankfulness of her enjoyment.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

Real luxury is time and opportunity to read books for pleasure.

Real luxury is time and opportunity to read for pleasure

I glide a finger along the raised golden edge of the title. I fan the pages and inhale the scent of fresh ink. I sigh in contentment when I think about how good it will be to lose myself in these pages. I'm so lost in thought,

The lamb melted on my tongue, and when I swallowed, it left little fireworks in its wake, a burst of citrus and chili and garlic and what seemed a dozen more subtle tastes as well.

For enjoyment is a weapon. The man who is capable of joy is capable, to a large extent, of changing his world. Joy is not a weak spineless idiot either. Its backbone is stronger than bitterness.

True creativity comes from enjoying the moments, which then fulfill themselves, and a part of the creative process is indeed the art of relaxation, the letting go

Well, being a perfectionist seems okay from the outside, but a perfectionist never enjoys anything, no matter how well it goes, because nothing is ever perfect.

I think that some books are more successful than others to certain readers. People who read my books for the humor, they're going to love one book. People who read my books for the mystery, they might not like that book quite as much.

Preparing a dish or a meal is not merely an effort to satisfy physical hunger but often a quest for the good life.

Enjoy yourself whilst you read!

A good way to enjoy the experiences of summer early is to get a winter sunburn.

Can you appreciate music without playing it? Yes, you can. You can appreciate baseball without playing it. Many people attend a football game merely for the crowd, the excitement, the color.

It was cool to do someone else's movie. It was a lot of fun.

I really enjoy theater. I just went to see 'Death of a Salesman ' and it knocked me on my ass.

Pleasure demands presence. It invites you to inhabit your body more fully; no part of you is held at remote.

There can be a radical honesty to pleasure, a profound nakedness in surrendering fully to the unguarded, unselfconscious states of enjoyment. It's harder to hide or dissimulate when you're enjoying yourself.

Of course, neither Doug nor Andrew walked away from the parade thinking, "I enjoyed my particular perspective on the parade based on the information I paid attention to." Each walked away thinking, "I enjoyed the parade." Each assumes that what he paid attention to was what was significant about the experience. Each assumes he has "the facts.

If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.

Poetry is not the most important thing in life... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets.