“The task is to learn how to enjoy everyday life without diminishing other people's chances to enjoy theirs.”
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi13
Hungarian American psychologist 1934Related quotes
“Too many people go through life without pausing to enjoy what they have.”
David Gemmell book The King Beyond the Gate
Source: Drenai series, The King Beyond the Gate, Ch. 2
Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867–1957) American children's writer, diarist, and journalist
Source: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farm Journalist: Writings from the Ozarks
“Learn to eat of the tree of Knowledge, and of the tree of Life enjoy the fruit.”
Theodor Reuss (1855–1923) German singer
IV. Defense and Support : Building blocks for the O.T.O. Temple
Parsifal and the Secret of the Graal Unveiled (1914)
Context: Closing Word
Learn to eat of the tree of Knowledge, and of the tree of Life enjoy the fruit. Seek both within yourself, and so you recognize them and know their place, you are come to the highest rung of the 12 step ladder.
Through this will the Divine-Love be awoken that does not have a place in the twisted minds of men, but dwells in his heart, from which the salvational current will be born which gives us the vision of the eternal light and annihilates all falsity.
"The eternal-feminine draws us up?!"
“Much learning shows how little mortals know;
Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy.”
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night VI, Line 519.
“The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.”
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer
"Common Places," No. 1, The Literary Examiner (September - December 1823), reprinted in The Collected Works of William Hazlitt (1902-1904)
“Try to enjoy the great festival of life with other men.”
Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece
3
Golden Sayings of Epictetus
