“I've been able to sleep with my eyes open ever since I started watching baseball." "Drinking is such a necessity to human life that people cannot fathom an individual who, like a child confined to a church pew, gets little enjoyment out of it and would rather do other things.” PeopleHumansChildrenLittlesEyeAbleIndividualChurchSleepBaseballDrinkingBoredHuman LifeEnjoymentConfinedFathom Author:Criss Jami
“We are so habitually nostalgic by now that we anticipate looking back in the midst of enjoyment, look forward to watching the videos we're taking of our children even as we make them.” LooksChildrenOur ChildrenNostalgiaVideoEnjoymentMidstLooking BackAnticipateNostalgic Book:From where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place Source: From where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place
“Simply to have all the necessities of life and three meals a day will not bring happiness. Happiness is hidden in the unnecessary and in those impractical things that bring delight to the inner person. . . . When we lack proper time for the simple pleasures of life, for the enjoyment of eating, drinking, playing, creating, visiting friends, and watching children at play, then we have missed the purpose of life. Not on bread alone do we live but on all these human and heart-hungry luxuries.” HumansHeartChildrenPersonsPlayHappinessPurposeThreeSimplePleasureEatingCreatingDrinkingDelightHungryBreadLuxuryMealsEnjoymentPurpose Of LifeUnnecessaryVisitingPleasures Of LifeSimple PleasuresProper Time Author:Edward M Hays
“There are people whom even children's literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom of Solomon.” PeopleChildrenLiteratureParticularEnjoymentPassagesSolomonChildren's Literature Author:Anton Chekhov
“It is all very well to say that children are happier with mud pies and rag dolls than with these elaborate delights. There may be something in this theory, but when their amusements are carried to such a point of luxurious and imaginative perfection it certainly gives them great and even unlimited enjoyment at the time.” GivingWellsMayChildrenTheoryPerfectionDelightEnjoymentPieUnlimitedMudAmusementImaginativeDollsRagsLuxuriousMud Pies Author:Ada Leverson