Tom Hodgkinson Quotes

I would much rather have been merry than wise.

The moment you start seeing life as non-serious, a playfulness, all the burden on your heart disappears. All the fear of death, of life, of love - everything disappears.

Take life easily, lovingly, playfully, non-seriously. Seriousness is a disease, the greatest disease of the soul and playfulness the greatest health.

I'm just enjoying my life at the moment.

Today is today, and tomorrow is tomorrow. I'm just going to enjoy it.

When you are 10, and you are with friends making music or playing sports or doing whatever, I would say, enjoy that and try to keep that as the model for as long as you can.

I've just learned to enjoy every moment for what it is and take it all in.

Within all of us, there is a little child. Why not enjoy life?

The Frenchman, easy, debonair, and brisk, Give him his lass, his fiddle, and his frisk, Is always happy, reign whoever may, And laughs the sense of mis'ry far away.

They are living in the moment. They are not ashamed of the past; they are not worried about the future. Little children express what they feel, and they are not afraid to love.

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now.

There are only moments. Live in this one. The happiness of these days.

Take it easy baby, take it as it comes - specialize in having fun!

You just have to enjoy life and that's what I like to do.

What then is the right way to live? Life should be lived as play.

Live in each season as it passes: breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.

That is the key to navigating this life - don't take it too seriously. That's when the party begins.

I try not to take myself too seriously. I like to have a good time.

The purpose of dancing isn't to end up at a particular spot on the floor. The purpose of dancing - and of life - is to enjoy every moment and every step, regardless of where you are when the music ends.

You don't have to wait for something 'meaningful' to come into your life so that you can finally enjoy what you do. There is more meaning in joy than you will ever need. The 'waiting to start living' syndrome is one of the most common delusions of the unconscious state.

We'd be making sail in the dawn, with a fair breeze, singing a chanty song wid no care to it. And astern the land would be sinking low and dying out, but we'd give it no heed but a laugh, and never look behind. For the day that was, was enough, for we was free men - and I'm thinking 'tis only slaves do be giving heed to the day that's gone or the day to come - until they're old like me.

Let's enjoy the aimless days while we still can.

Be driven, be focused, but enjoy every moment, because it only happens once.

[T]he kingdom of heaven is of the childlike, of those who are easy to please, who love and who give pleasure. Mighty men of their hands, the smiters and the builders and the judges, have lived long and done sternly and yet preserved this lovely character; and among our carpet interests and twopenny concerns, the shame were indelible if we should lose it. Gentleness and cheerfulness, these come before all morality; they are the perfect duties.