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"As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow."
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Personal Development
"But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning."
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Personal Development
"It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer."
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Personal Development
"It's very silly, she said, "but I go on with it in spite of myself. I'm afraid I'm too easily pleased; no novel is so silly I can't read it."
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Personal Development
"How we think is so important. There has to be a time when we stop just dealing with life and think about enjoying it."
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Personal Development
"The lesson adults can learn here is that the world is filled with things for our enjoyment."
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Personal Development
"Life is delicious. Waste not one bite!"
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Personal Development
"Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man."
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Personal Development
"The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of entertainment."
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Personal Development
"The real thing is, you should be seeing these plays in the Theatre. That's what they were written for. That's where the enjoyment is. Studying them is no enjoyment whatsoever."
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Personal Development
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"But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for."
Learning
"What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few chilly days and a few weeks' rain; where the sun is never far away, and the flowers bloom all year long?"
Country
"The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure."
Success
"Everyone needs some time to themselves."
Time
"But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!"
Life
"But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning."
Enjoyment
"If we fix a goal and work towards it, then we are never just passing time."
Time
"No matter how much we love our family and friends, a part of us needs the occasional moment of solitude as a plant needs water. It is the inmost core of each of us that, that part which nobody can define but which we all recognize because it never changes."
Family
"Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not."
Loneliness
"I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains."
Father
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