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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal. (Quote by - Aleister Crowley)

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity. (Quote by - Mark Twain)

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united. (Quote by - Wilhelm von Humboldt)

But part of the enjoyment I take in it is finding the most efficient way to do it, which doesn't mean the corrections aren't made. I like to have a feeling of the whole task before I start, even if it changes. (Quote by - Bruce Nauman)

Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity. (Quote by - Horace Mann)

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)

I do not let a bad score ruin my enjoyment for golf. (Quote by - Darrell Royal)

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches. (Quote by - Adam Smith)

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. (Quote by - Robert Morgan)

A really interesting life has embraced everything from the most magnificent exultation to the depths of tragedy. I would say that's tremendous experience - But I wouldn't say enjoyment is an accurate summary of it! (Quote by - Marcia Davenport)

It's learning how to negotiate to keep both sides happy - whether it's for a multi-million dollar contract or just which show to watch on TV, that determines the quality and enjoyment of our lives. (Quote by - Leigh Steinberg)

Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense. (Quote by - William Penn)

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction. (Quote by - Mortimer Adler)

Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression. (Quote by - Marshall McLuhan)

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it? (Quote by - John Ruskin

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade. (Quote by - Anthony Trollope)

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

The whole period has taught me that I enjoy being part of an ensemble rather than just a front man. Don't get me wrong - I enjoy that too, but I get more enjoyment out of really listening to everyone. (Quote by - Damon Albarn)

Lord of the Rings was just so much enjoyment. It was over about the space of a year that I was filming. It's one of the most enjoyable things I've ever done, so emotional. (Quote by - Sean Bean)

To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. (Quote by - Jane Austen)

Success in highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which comes only to the man who has found the work he likes best. (Quote by - Napoleon Hill)

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration. (Quote by - DeWitt Clinton)

To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than. (Quote by - Oscar Homolka)

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