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“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.”

People Humans Children Littles Eye Able Individual Church Sleep Baseball Drinking Bored Human Life Enjoyment Confined Fathom

Author:Criss Jami

“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.”

“A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity.”

Humans Enjoyment Chairs Thrones Drunkenness Felicity Taverns

Book:Selected poetry and prose

Source: Selected poetry and prose

“Diminish the mass of evils that afflict the human species, increase enjoyment and well-being. And even if the new routes opened up could prolong the average life of mankind by only a few hours, or even a few days, then the scientist, too could aspire.”

Ifs Humans Wells Evil Hours Mankind Mass Scientist Increase Species Average Well Being Enjoyment Aspire Routes Affliction Diminish Human Species Average Life

Author:Antoine Lavoisier

“Envy and resentment are terribly corrosive passions. To suffer at the sight or even the thought of others' enjoyment of life makes one a committed enemy of human happiness. Such people end up being practically a curse upon the human race. They vandalize life, exerting themselves not in the pursuit of gain or pleasure, but to hinder others' enjoyment.”

Source: The Making of the Messiah: Christianity and Resentment