This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
While you are upon the earth, enjoy the good things that are here.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use reading it at all.
I had a very pleasant evening, however, though you will probably find out that there was no particular reason for it; but I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.
A real pleasure is a pleasure that one enjoys by one’s self, without a companion, and without a single argument.
We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things.[Wir sind so eingerichtet, daß wir nur den Kontrast intensiv genießen können, den Zustand nur sehr wenig.]
To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
To enjoy freedom, if the platitude is pardonable, we have of course to control ourselves.
The supreme enjoyment is in satisfaction with oneself; it is in order to deserve this satisfaction that we are placed on earth and endowed with freedom.[La suprême jouissance est dans le contentement de soi-même; c’est pour mériter ce contentement que nous sommes placés sur la terre et doués de la liberté.]
Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
If you really don’t enjoy the type of music I make and that’s not you, OK. But don’t say I’m not talented. If you haven’t noticed, I wasn’t made — I was found.
I think the thing to do is enjoy the ride while you’re on it.
