Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.
All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
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