314 Quotes About Enjoyment

...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Have we forgotten how to laugh? If so, we have forgotten how to live. And that is certainly nothing to be laughing about.

Let's just go in and enjoy ourselves,' Yvonne had said after a long moment when the Hitchens family had silently reviewed the menu—actually of the prices not the courses—outside a restaurant on our first and only visit to Paris. I knew at once that the odds against enjoyment had shortened (or is it lengthened? I never remember).

For it isn't just moments of happiness, which is all I thought we got. It's happiness that spreads.

No creature is ever without the need to seek out other beings. Whether for companionship, enjoyment, knowledge, or nourishment, life is reliant on life.

Life's a climb. But the view is great.

We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure,but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must havethe stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthlessfurnace of this world. To make injustice the onlymeasure of our attention is to praise the Devil.

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?

But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment.