“I don't suffer from insanity. I can actually say that I enjoy it.”
Tim Dorsey (1961) American writer
Source: Dance with the Devil
“I don't suffer from insanity. I can actually say that I enjoy it.”
Tim Dorsey (1961) American writer
“I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.”
Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist
Source: Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames
Warren Zevon (1947–2003) American singer-songwriter
Remarks on his attitude after discovering he had terminal mesothelioma, on The Late Show with David Letterman (30 October 2002)
Richard Branson (1950) English business magnate, investor and philanthropist
From his interview in The Guardian newspaper, 20th September 2008
“I love the way
You live so intensely
enjoying every minute of life”
Kate Havnevik (1975) Norwegian singer-songwriter
Song lyrics
Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) African American boxer, philanthropist and activist
On training, as quoted in "Ali: Born Again!" by Pete Axthelm and Peter Bonventre, Newsweek (25 September 1978)
“Enjoy every minute of life. Never second-guess life.”
Michael Jordan (1963) American retired professional basketball player and businessman
How to be like Mike (2005)
Thomas Mann (1875–1955) German novelist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate
Letter from Naples, Italy to Otto Grautoff (1896); as quoted in A Gorgon's Mask: The Mother in Thomas Mann's Fiction (2005) by Lewis A. Lawson, p. 34
Context: I think of my suffering, of the problem of my suffering. What am I suffering from? From knowledge — is it going to destroy me? What am I suffering from? From sexuality — is it going to destroy me? How I hate it, this knowledge which forces even art to join it! How I hate it, this sensuality, which claims everything fine and good is its consequence and effect. Alas, it is the poison that lurks in everything fine and good! — How am I to free myself of knowledge? By religion? How am I to free myself of sexuality? By eating rice?
Robert M. Pirsig book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
This is attributed to Pirsig by Richard Dawkins in the Preface to The God Delusion (2006), p. 28, but cannot be found prior to that. It is obviously a paraphrase of the following from Pirsig's Lila - An Inquiry Into Morals (1991): „An insane delusion can't be held by a group at all. A person isn't considered insane if there are a number of people who believe the same way. Insanity isn't supposed to be a communicable disease. If one other person starts to believe him, or maybe two or three, then it's a religion." ( books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=51i6WkGn6qYC&q=%22An+insane+delusion%22; books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=WZtRAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA426) <br class="br">Disputed <br class="br">Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values