Quotes About Enjoyment

It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.

One can enjoy existence, not life.

This is what made a book great, she thought, that you could read it over and over and never get tired of it.

I don't eat that much cake, but I never turn down a slice.

3. Buy many small pleasures instead of few big ones

You can either plan to be eternally vigilant and ready, eschewing life as we know it, or be willing to enjoy life and pay the price.

I like turtles!!!!

I love sandwiches. Let's face it, life is better between two pieces of bread.

A beverage of leisure is a serious business," Shane Bowermaster was known to declare. "There can be no product of pleasure without the inverse on the end of the producer.

He drank deeply from his orange juice - really drank to savor it so that for a minute or two nothing existed in the house but his enjoyment.

The way to come to tolerate and then enjoy being involved in the world is by being in the world.

reckon the time to take frosting and good times is while they are going;

It is altogether fitting and proper that we should enjoy things made for us to enjoy. What is not at all fitting or proper is that we should set our hearts on them. Temporal things must be treated as temporal things - received, given thanks for, offered back, but enjoyed. They must not be treated like eternal things.

Why should I focus all my time on being productive so that someday I can enjoy my life? I'm enjoying it now.

One good thing about someone really liking something you have is that you appreciate it yourself all over again.

There is a lot of satisfaction, a lot of joy, that can come from doing something you love and that you're good at

can never get enough time in here.

But a little perspiration never hurt anyone. Especially that sort of perspiration. And that sort of perspiration was definitely one of life's simple pleasures. Well, maybe that sort of perspiration wasn't so simple, she conceded.

But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's life, is it so awful to travel through time with no greater ambition than to find the next lovely meal? Or to learn how to speak a language for no higher purpose than that it pleases your ear to hear it? Or to nap in a garden, in a patch of sunlight, in the middle of the day, right next to your favourite fountain? And then to do it again the next day?

Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one....This is the cause of that great sad American stereotype- the overstressed executive who goes on vacation, but who cannot relax.

Maybe this is just some stupid romantic South American idea, but I need you to understand-darling, for you, I am even willing to suffer. Whatever pain happens to us in the future, I accept it already, just for the pleasure of being with you now. Let's enjoy this time. It's marvelous. Felipe-Eat, Pray, Love

I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself to God.

Il bel far niente.

People will tell you not to waste your youth having too much fun, but they're wrong. Youth is an irreplaceable treasure, and the only respectable thing to do with irreplaceable treasure is to waste it. So do the right thing with your youth, Vivian—squander it.