There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go – that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

Value is what you get.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.

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?

For greed all nature is too little.

I like being able to be on the inside of music, rather than on the outside listening to it.

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.

That summer after the draft was probably the most fun I’ve ever had, because all I had to do every day was wake up and go work out for four or five hours. I got to play some golf, which I love to do, too, and then got to hang out with my family.

I know that there are millions of Americans who are content with their health care coverage – they like their plan and, most importantly, they value their relationship with their doctor.

As for our majority… one is enough.

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

I do things I love doing. Sometimes that is maybe going out to have a drink with friends, going out partying or whatever.

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn’t mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they’re happy if they do get it.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it’s only money… they don’t know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

Living big and joyful and content is almost always the result of our finding satisfaction in life’s ordinary day-to-day pleasures. And God must be fond of them, too, for He made so many of them for us to enjoy.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

In my own life I know that my state of cheerfulness is a reliable gauge of my level of spiritual enlightenment at that moment. The more cheerful, happy, contented, and satisfied I am feeling, the more aware I am of my deep connection to Spirit.

You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

Nobody enjoys the ‚little show about nothing‘ humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

I’m proud to play for Real Madrid because I have fun; when you no longer have fun it’s a sign that it’s time to leave. For now though, I’m happy here at the greatest club in the world.

I don’t get bored.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

I like to have fun all the time, even if I’m working.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Prayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian’s relationship with God. It’s how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a surprising number of people, young and old, new and even long-time Christians, say they’re not satisfied with their prayer life.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can’t be entertained – or people who are afraid. You can’t entertain a man who has no food.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It’s best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

Every device there is in language is there to be used, if you will. Poets have got to enjoy themselves sometimes, and the twistings and convolutions of words, the inventions and contrivances, are all part of the joy that is part of the painful, voluntary work.

I think I don’t take myself too seriously. You know as far as, it’s a fun life. I take my music serious, but I like to have fun.

The only film I’ve enjoyed starring a wrestler was Mickey Rourke in ‚The Wrestler.‘

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

I don’t know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

There are very few people who really appreciate my shows. People come to the show and they pay and they enjoy it, but I don’t really think most people really understand what they’ve seen.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.