School children, who have enjoyed reading a romance or a detective thriller or a novel about terror and conquest, make the invariable mistake of studying literature in the college. They make the mistake of learning theory in place of art; they acquire impediments in their own enjoyment of the books by allowing a set of theories to govern their own reading.
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Never force yourself to read a book that you do not enjoy. There are so many good books in the world that it is foolish to waste time on one that does not give you pleasure.
Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting people have to understand. If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only a trifling bit of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world, though we can't explain them. People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.
Other__ power, other__ enjoyments, other__ space, people have become the owners of that which does not belong to one__ self. If they become the owners of __elf_, death is no more; One is himself, the Absolute Supreme Soul.
It is indisputable that the being whose capacities of enjoyment are low, has the greatest chance of having them fully satisfied; and a highly endowed being will always feel that any happiness which he can look for, as the world is constituted, is imperfect. But he can learn to bear its imperfections, if they are at all bearable; and they will not make him envy the being who is indeed unconscious of the imperfections, but only because he feels not at all the good which those imperfections qualify. dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, is of a different opinion, it is only because they only know their own side of the question.
God designed life to be enjoyed by all, but human being turned things around and made it to be endured.
We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else__ opinion that we do not look happy.
That which I cannot hold is that which I can treasure the most because it affords me no burden other than to enjoy it.
How freeing of a thought: instead of worrying about leaving a legacy, to leave no trace of one's existence. How liberating indeed!
Righteous, I like that. Kinda fitting when you think about it. If we danced and shared music, we'd be too busy en-joy-in' life to start a war.
Peace is a place of unhindered enjoyment of friendship beyond guilt, suspicion, blame of inferiority
I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.
Pleasing things: finding a large number of tales that one has not read before. Or acquiring the second volume of a tale whose first volume one has enjoyed. But often it is a disappointment.
You can__ enjoy art or books in a hurry.
There is never enough time to enjoy what you love.
I have always enjoyed my solitude. It gives me time to think and to write.
Don__ spend your money on luxuries. Save it and secure a safe future. Don__ crave for quick satisfaction.
Challenges will come that is inevitable. But they can__ easily destroy your future than your own appetite.