Enjoyment Quotes

The real difficulty of man is not to enjoy lamp-posts or landscapes, not to enjoy dandelions or chops, but to enjoy enjoyment.  That is the practical problem which the philosopher has to solve.

Riches are always over estimated [sic]; the enjoyment they give is more in the pursuit than the possession.

wealth pursuit

A powerful preacher is open to the same sense of enjoyment—an awful, tremulous, goose-flesh sort of state, but still enjoyment—that a great tragedian feels when he curdles the blood of his audience.

clergy

In our pursuit of the things of this world, we usually prevent enjoyment by expectation; we anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness and worldly pleasures by delightful forethoughts of them; so that when we come to possess them, they do not answer the expectation, nor satisfy the desires which were raised about them, and they vanish into nothing.

expectation

Privilege, almost by definition, requires that someone else pay the price for its enjoyment.

privilege

There is a limit to enjoyment, though the sources of wealth be boundless;
And the choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

proverbs pleasure