#enjoyment — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #enjoyment, aggregated by home.social.
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Volunteers maintain historic cactus garden https://www.allforgardening.com/1938359/volunteers-maintain-historic-cactus-garden/ #arizona #ArizonaCactusGarden #beauty #cacti #california #Cancer #chemotherapy #ChristySmith #Colours #community #connection #design #enjoyment #garden #GardeningArizona #Hospital #JaneStanford #JohnPriola #LelandStanford #meaningful #NaomiMier #nature #plants #preservation #public #restoration #Stanford #style #succulents #survivor #victorian #Volunteering
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He who does not give himself leisure to be thirsty cannot take pleasure in drinking.
[Qui ne se donne loisir d’avoir soif, ne sçauroit prendre plaisir à boire.]Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 1, ch. 42 (1.42), “Of the Inequality among Us [De l’inequalité qui est entre nous]” (1572) [tr. Frame (1943)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #desire #drinking #enjoyment #glut #lack #pleasure #satiety #satisfaction #surfeit #want
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A quotation from Basil the Great
You seem to have great possessions! How else can this be, but that you have preferred your own enjoyment to the consolation of the many? For the more you abound in wealth, the more you lack in love.
[ἀλλὰ μὴν φαίνῃ ἔχων κτήματα πολλά. Πόθεν ταῦτα; ἢ δῆλον ὅτι τὴν οἰκείαν ἀπόλαυσιν προτι μοτέραν τῆς τῶν πολλῶν παραμυθίας ποιούμενος. Ὅσον οὖν πλεονάζεις τῷ πλούτῳ, τοσοῦτον ἐλλείπεις τῇ ἀγάπῃ.]Basil of Caesarea (AD 330-378) Christian bishop, theologian, monasticist, Doctor of the Church [Saint Basil the Great, Ἅγιος Βασίλειος ὁ Μέγας]
Sermon (368 ca.), "To the Rich [Ὁμιλία πρὸς τοὺς πλουτούντας]" [tr. Schroeder (2009)]More about this quote: wist.info/basil-of-caesarea/70…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #basilthegreat #saintbasil #charity #love #possessions #rich #riches #selfindulgence #selfishness #wealth #wealthy #misanthropy #enjoyment #pleasure
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During my youth, the Blanket Stand was always the first game of chance one encountered upon entering the Grange Fair and Encampment in Centre Hall. Pennsylvania, 1973. #grange #grangefair #grangefairandencampment #encampment #glamping #blanket #blankets #blanketstand #gamesofchance #gameofchance #gambling #gamblingstands #fair #fairs #carnival #carnivals #summer #summerfun #summerentertainment #entertainment #entertainments #camping #pink #blue #colorful #tent #tents #enjoyment
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The anti-woke and the fash are clearly on a winning streak, and have been so for a while. And yet they seem just as angry and just as victim complexy as ever.
Do they even enjoy their victory at all? Never have I seen a social movement that everyone knew about be crushed so thoroughly and so quickly as woke was – so why aren't they cheering?
What's the point of destroying so many peoples lives if they can't even feel happy about it?
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How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it!
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Story (1905-12), “Eve’s Diary,” Harper’s Magazine, Vol. 112, No. 1More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/28734/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #twain #marktwain #eve #contentment #credit #deserve #deserving #earn #enjoyment #fulfillment #gratification #happiness #pleasure #result #satisfaction #work
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Fortune nor home not more the man can cheer,
Who lives a prey to covetise or fear,
Than may a picture’s richest hues delight
Eyes that with dropping rheum are thick of sight,
Or warm soft lotions soothe a gout-racked foot,
Or aching ears be charmed by twangling lute.
On minds unquiet joy has lost its power;
In a foul vessel everything turns sour.
[Qui cupit aut metuit, iuvat ilium sic domus et res,
Ut lippum pictae tabulae, fomenta podagrum,
Auriculas citbarae collecta sorde dolentes.
Sincerumst nisi vas, quodcumque infundis acescit
Sperne voluptate.]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 2 “To Lollius,” l. 51ff (1.2.51-54) (14 BC) [tr. Martin (1881)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/82248/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #avarice #dissatisfaction #dysphoria #enjoyment #fear #greed #joylessness #loss #money #perspective #pleasure #property #unease #unhappiness #wealth
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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
The appreciation of many things in which we are not proficient ourselves but which we have learned to enjoy is one of the important things to cultivate in modern education. The arts in every field — music, drama, sculpture, painting — we can learn to appreciate and enjoy. We need not be artists, but we should be able to appreciate the work of artists.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) First Lady of the US (1933–1945), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1958-11-05), “My Day”More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/81…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #appreciation #art #artappreciation #arteducation #artistry #drama #education #enjoyment #leisure #music #painting #sculpture #theater
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A quotation from Joseph Addison
As exercise becomes tedious and painful when we make use of it only as the means of health, so reading is apt to grow uneasy and burdensome, when we apply ourselves to it only for our improvement in virtue. For this reason, the virtue which we gather from a fable, or an allegory, is like the health we get by hunting; as we are engaged in an agreeable pursuit that draws us on with pleasure, and makes us insensible of the fatigues that accompany it.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1709-03-18), The Tatler, No. 147More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/80785…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #books #drudgery #duty #engagement #entertainment #reading #selfimprovement #enjoyment
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A quotation from Danny Kaye (maybe)
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
Danny Kaye (1911-1987) American actor, comedian, singer, dancer [b. David Daniel Kaminsky]
(Attributed)More info on this quote: wist.info/kaye-danny/78662/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #dannykaye #passion #creativity #enjoyment #experience #expression #joiedevivre #life #living
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sands of time slip past
clutch some grains between your toes
savor each moment#DailyHaikuPrompt #sand
#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #hourglass #time #life #enjoyment #happiness #mindfulness #InTheMoment #JoieDeVivre