#joy

The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future. ↗

— Norman O. Brown

#constantly #dynamics #enjoyment #future #postponed

I adore art... when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear. ↗

— Giuseppe Verdi

#alone #am #art #bear #emotion

For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats. ↗

— Harry Browne

#enjoyed #foreign #history #liberty #most

I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products. ↗

— Richard Wagner

#chain #cheap #deprive #efforts #factories

We were excited when we sold our first 10 records. I always felt that if we could get the music out there, and if people became accustomed to it, then a substantial number of them would enjoy it. ↗

— Greg Ginn

#always #became #could #enjoy #excited

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. ↗

— Buddha

#follows #joy #leaves #like #mind

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#far #more #proceeds #process #than

A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have and to hold. ↗

— Julie Burchill

#enjoyable #girl #hold #like #looks

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#barter #benefit #compromise #enjoyment #every

Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#bound #degree #easily #enjoyments #every