Omar Khayyam
Poet, Mathematician, Astronomer
"If I don't enjoy myself now, when shall I?"
Enjoyment quotes
Enjoyment
96 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Albert Einstein
Physicist
"That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don't notice that the time passes."
Seneca the Younger
Philosopher, Statesman
"A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment."
Michel de Montaigne
Philosopher, Writer
"It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness."
Sigmund Freud
Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
"We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast."
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"Variety is the mother of Enjoyment."
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"Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment."
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"There is nothing beyond God, and the sense enjoyments are simply something through which we are passing now in the hope of getting better things."
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"I work for enjoyment and satisfaction - not just to earn a living."
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"Worship is God's enjoyment of us and our enjoyment of him."
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"I do not presume to explain how to paint, but only how to get enjoyment."
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"We only do well the things we like doing."
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"Alas! When duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away."
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"Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it."
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"Enthusiasm is intensified enjoyment of what you are doing."
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"No one can afford to look downward for his enjoyments."
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"And numerous indeed are the hearts to which Christmas brings a brief season of happiness and enjoyment."
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"Love is not enjoyment. Love is being enjoyed."
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"True enjoyments also keep people from vice."
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"Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners."
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"But even our pleasures are calculated and business like. We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended. Our salons are often little better than bazaars of fashion."
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"We do ourselves wrong, and too meanly estimate the holiness above us, when we deem that any act or enjoyment good in itself, is not good to do religiously."
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"The enjoyment has been diminishing. Now, there's no question that it's sort of fun to get high."
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"To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exclude yourself from the true enjoyment of it."
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"The end of living is the true enjoyment of it."
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