We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that is bedecked with dew....Human beings are actually created for the transcendent, for the sublime, for the beautiful, for the truthful...and all of us are given the task of trying to make this world a little more hospitable to these beautiful things.~Desmond Tutu

The secret to enjoying your job is to have a hobby that is even worse.
-- Calvin; from It's a Magical World, p12

"Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure."
-- Henry Greber.

I have had much enjoyment in doing these talks and hope that some of it has passed over to the listeners, to all of whom I now say thank you for your loyalty and goodbye.
-- [Alfred] Alistair Cooke (11/20/1908-2004)

"...it is a matter of choice whether you enjoy what you have or resent what you don't have."
-- Cosmic Awareness Speaks (vol.3)p.46

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much love, light and laughter,
ananya.

You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to be pleased by them, or too grasping to care for what you cannot turn to other account than mere delight.
~ John Ruskin, Stones of Venice, volume. I, ch. II

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate-that's my philosophy.
~ Thornton Wilder

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
~Storm Jameson

There are rewards that do not sully motives. A man's love for a woman is not mercenary because he wants to marry her, nor his love for poetry mercenary because he wants to read it, nor his love of exercise less disinterested because he wants to run and leap and walk. Love, by definition, seeks to enjoy its object.
~C. S. Lewis

True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
~Joseph Addison

Looking for and enjoying beauty is a way to nourish the soul. The universe is in the habit of making beauty. There are flowers and songs, snowflakes and smiles, acts of great courage, laughter between friends, a job well done, the smell of fresh-baked bread. Beauty is everywhere.
~Matthew Fox

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
~Thomas Babington McCauley

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I do not really like vacations. I much prefer an occasional day off when I do not feel like working. When I am confronted with a whole week in which I have nothing to do but enjoy myself I do not know where to begin. To me, enjoyment comes fleetingly and unheralded; I cannot determinedly enjoy myself for a whole week at a time.
~Robertson Davies

Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.
~Ashleigh Brilliant

As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first, it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it stands not far from death.

Marcus Tullius Cicro, De Senectute (Of Old Age), book 5, section 15.—Herbert N. Couch, Cicero on the Art of Growing Old, p. 21 (1959).

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey.
~Harold Melchert

Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.
- Paul Goodman