If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
—E. B. White
He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
—Samuel Butler
If you live in the past, you don’t enjoy what is happening right now because you will always wish it to be different than it is.
—Miguel Ruiz in The Four Agreements
The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.
—Richard Bach
There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
—Bertrand Russell
The worm in the radish doesn't think there is anything sweeter.
—Shalom Aleichem
The person lives twice who lives the first life well.
—Robert Herrick
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
—Rita Mae Brown
There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
—Muhammad Ali
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
—Russell Baker
"Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
—Cesare Pavese
Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of capitalism while sneering at it.… Everyone born into capitalism has incurred a debt to it. Give Caesar his due.
—Camille Paglia
Life, as we all know, is conflict, and man, being part of life, is himself an expression of conflict. If he recognizes the fact and accepts it, he is apt, despite the conflict, to know peace and to enjoy it.
—Henry Miller
Isn't it nice… once you've outgrown the ideas of what life should be and you just enjoy what it is.
—Taylor Jenkins Reid in After I Do
By letting go of what you thought was going to happen in your life, you can enjoy what is actually happening.
—Taylor Negron