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 Why not seize the pleasure at once?— How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation! Jane Austen (1775-1817)
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If I had my life over again, I'd probably be fated to make the same mistakes, but I would try to enjoy them more, and to say 'Yes' more often.
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Well Jane, it’s like this, because we are free and able to prepare unlike the animal. 
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Yes, it it raw; no preparations are necessary
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...pleasure at once? 19th century version of instant gratification. She probably put this in the mouth of an impetuous character in one of her novels.
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Preparation is not opposite to happiness. We can be happy in getting prepared also.
If Jane suffered of preparation might be that she feared too much... of future, of death.
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Preparation is not opposite to happiness. We can be happy in getting prepared too.
If Jane suffered of preparation might be that she feared too much... future, death.
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Don't read too much into it. The quote is one slice of ten thousand slices of Austen's thoughts, more like picking up a sentence of a loud talker in a coffee shop. One approach to pleasure without preparing and thinking how to enjoy it. I see a wonderful pastry in a shop while walking past it, I would have the pleasure at once!
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If she knew she was only going to live to 42 she would have taken this advice more often. Hopefully she did, some.
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Sometimes happiness is destroyed by preparation and anticipation. It is built up to be bigger than it could ever be and therefore is a disappointment.
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He who hesitates is lost, but good things come to those who wait...so plan your spontaneity carefully.
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Hupomone wrote:He who hesitates is lost, but good things come to those who wait...so plan your spontaneity carefully. Thanks for my chuckle. 
Little drops of water~Little grains of sand~Make the mighty ocean~And the pleasant land~So the little moments~Humble though they be~Make the mighty ages ~Of Eternity/by Julia Fletcher Carney
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It's a serious issue really, when one cannot differentiate between the right time to take advantage immediately & when to be patient & prepare the desires Yes desires could also be prepared & organized, actually that way the feel even better ..
"If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day." — E.B. White
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Here's the late Tug Mcgraw's advice to son, Tim, with regard to "seizing the moment:"
He said: "I went sky diving, I went rocky mountain climbing,
"I went two point seven seconds on a bull named Fu Man Chu.
"And I loved deeper and I spoke sweeter,
"And I gave forgiveness I'd been denying."
An' he said: "Some day, I hope you get the chance,
"To live like you were dyin'."
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"...I was finally the husband,
"That most the time I wasn’t.
"An' I became a friend a friend would like to have.
"And all of a sudden goin' fishin’,
"Wasn’t such an imposition,
"And I went three times that year I lost my Dad.
"Well, I finally read the Good Book,
"And I took a good long hard look,
"At what I'd do if I could do it all again,
"And then:
"I went sky diving, I went rocky mountain climbing,
"I went two point seven seconds on a bull named Fu Man Chu.
"And I loved deeper and I spoke sweeter,
"And I gave forgiveness I'd been denying."
An' he said: "Some day, I hope you get the chance,
"To live like you were dyin'."
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Of course this quote is from one of her books. No doubt it applies to the time that she lived where protocol in social situations was very rigid. There were suitors, balls, cotillions, etc. A girl could not just hang out at the mall with her friends back in those days.
“Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.” -- Chinese proverb
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Hupomone wrote:He who hesitates is lost, but good things come to those who wait...so plan your spontaneity carefully. 
"Those who give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamen Franklin
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About waiting and praparing for the right time... From some psychological studies on children till adulthood... children who are able to wait for delayed, but grander, gratificaton have a much higher level of achievement and success as adults.
But there are times when one must strike when the iron is hot. The key lies in having the wisdom to wait and prepare for some, and strike immediately for others.
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Hmmmmmm~~~~~~~, I love Jane. I might be a clinging vine.
Love love love love coco nuts~~! I I I I Island~~!
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