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The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
The ice does not in pain scream
when in the sun he melts into stream
nor does he in pain read more
The ice does not in pain scream
when in the sun he melts into stream
nor does he in pain scream
when he higher climbs into spiraling steam.
I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be
described.
[Fr., Je l'ai toujours dit read more
I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be
described.
[Fr., Je l'ai toujours dit et senti, la veritable jouissance ne
se decrit point.]
It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying
yourself when you aren't.
It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying
yourself when you aren't.
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do.
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do.
If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.
If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.
For Solomon, he lived at ease, and full
Of honour, wealth, high fare, aimed not beyond
Higher read more
For Solomon, he lived at ease, and full
Of honour, wealth, high fare, aimed not beyond
Higher design than to enjoy his state.