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 More about this quote Tags: change world improvement pleasure enjoyment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: life God enjoyment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: life presence past enjoyment present Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it. —Richard Bach More about this quote Tags: experience pleasure enjoyment money payment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. —Bertrand Russell More about this quote Tags: reading enjoyment boasting prestige Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The worm in the radish doesn't think there is anything sweeter. —Shalom Aleichem More about this quote Tags: perception perspective enjoyment food parable Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The person lives twice who lives the first life well. —Robert Herrick More about this quote Tags: life living experience enjoyment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it. —Rita Mae Brown More about this quote Tags: life purpose enjoyment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people. —Muhammad Ali More about this quote Tags: enjoyment brutality boxing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure. —Russell Baker More about this quote Tags: enjoyment inclusion exclusion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
"Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. —Cesare Pavese More about this quote Tags: love life enjoyment pain Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: enjoyment feminism nature capitalism debt Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: life acceptance peace enjoyment conflict Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: life simplicity ideas enjoyment joy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
By letting go of what you thought was going to happen in your life, you can enjoy what is actually happening. —Taylor Negron More about this quote Tags: life reality enjoyment letting go Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email