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.

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.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on read more

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate--that's my philosophy.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes read more

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

Though throned in highest bliss
Equal to God, and equally enjoying
God-like fruition.

Though throned in highest bliss
Equal to God, and equally enjoying
God-like fruition.

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the read more

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.