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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON ENJOYMENT
Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.
Greg Anderson (American author, "The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness")
The great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don't want to do, and, second, to do what you do want to do.
Margaret Anderson (1886 -1973, American literary editor and autobiographer)
There is a need to find and sing our own song, to stretch our limbs and shake them in a dance so wild that nothing can roost there, that stirs the yearning for solitary voyage.
Barbara Lazear Ascher
There is a need to find and sing our own song, to stretch our limbs and shake them in a dance so wild that nothing can roost there, that stirs the yearning for solitary voyage.
Barbara Lazear Ascher
Where a man can live, he can also live well.
Marcus Aurelius (121-12180, Roman emperor, philosopher)
The love for work needs to be re-enthroned in our lives. Every family should have a plan for work that touches the life of each family member so that this eternal principle will be ingrained in their lives.
M. Russell Ballard (1928-, American missionary, bishop,)
If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.
Ray Bradbury (1920-, American science fiction writer)
Without pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die.
Pierre De Beaumarchais (1732-1799, French dramatist)
I have had more than half a century of such happiness. A great deal of worry and sorrow, too, but never a worry or a sorrow that was not offset by a purple iris, a lark, a bluebird, or a dewy morning glory.
Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955, American educator, consultant for the U.S. government)
Enjoy the journey, enjoy every moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.
Matt Biondi (1965-, American swimmer)
Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.
Hugh Blair (British poet)
The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually become wealthy clearly reveals that their "Luck" arouse from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed.
Srully Blotnick (American psychologist, author)
If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.
Glen Buck
If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.
Buddha (568-488 BC, Indian born, founder of Buddhism)
He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
Samuel Butler (1612-1680, British poet, satirist)
We only do well the things we like doing.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954, French author)
I want to do it because I want to do it.
Amelia Earhart (1897-1937, American aviator, author)
Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.
Eileen Caddy (American spiritual writer)
If you want to die happily, learn to live; if you would live happily, learn to die.
Celio Calcagnini
I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.
Walter Chrysler (1875-1940, American businessman, founder of Chrysler Motors)
You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.
Dale Carnegie (1888-1955, American trainer, author, "How to Win Friends and Influence People")
You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.
Dale Carnegie (1888-1955, American trainer, author, "How to Win Friends and Influence People")
Men are made for happiness, and anyone who is completely happy has a right to say to himself: "I am doing God's will on earth."
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904, Russian playwright, short story writer)
Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.
Julia Child (1912-2004, American gourmet cook, author, and television personality)
Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.
Chauncey Depew (1834-1928, American lawyer, businessman, public official)
There must be bands of enthusiasts for everything on earth -- fanatics who shared a vocabulary, a batch of technical skills and equipment, and, perhaps, a vision of some single slice of the beauty and mystery of things, of their complexity, fascination, and unexpectedness.
Annie Dillard (1945-, American author, poet)
You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.
Dale Earnhardt (1952-, American race car driver)
What I wanted was to be allowed to do the thing in the world that I did best which I believed then and believe now is the greatest privilege there is. When I did that, success found me.
Debbi Fields
The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
Malcolm S. Forbes (1919-1990, American publisher, businessman)
Follow what you love! Don't deign to ask what "they" are looking for out there. Ask what you have inside. Follow not your interests, which change, but what you are and what you love, which will and should not change.
Georgie Anne Geyer
People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.
Joe Gibbs (1940-, American football coach)
The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.
Jerry Gillies
What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important than what you do.
Jerry Gillies
The first duty of a human being is to assume the right relationship to society -- more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.
Charlotte P. Gillman (1860-1935, American feminist and writer)
Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden. What the moment brings forth is all that brings profit.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist)
Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden. What the moment brings forth is all that brings profit.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist)
He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist)
As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.
Steffi Graf (1969-, German tennis player)
To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?
Katherine Graham
Like what you do, if you don't like it, do something else.
Paul Harvey (1918-, American radio broadcaster, columnist, author)
The most beautiful thing is inevitability of events, and the most ugly thing is trying to resist inevitability.
Katharine Butler Hathaway
Dress to please yourself.... Forget you are what you wear.... Wear what you are.
Elizabeth Hawkes
Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864, American novelist, short story writer)
Don't do anything that someone else can do for you because there are only so many things that only you can do.
Jinger Heath
I have smelt all the aromas there are in the fragrant kitchen they call Earth; and what we can enjoy in this life, I surely have enjoyed just like a lord!
Heinrich Heine (1797-1856, German poet, journalist)
If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.
Hazel Henderson
If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003, American actress, writer)
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
Napoleon Hill (1883-1970, American speaker, author, "Think And Grow Rich")
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
Napoleon Hill (1883-1970, American speaker, author, "Think And Grow Rich")
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
Ben Hogan (1912-1997, American golfer)
The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.
Winifred Holtby
To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.
Oscar Homoka
No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.
Horace (BC 65-8, Italian poet)
You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap or the soreness or all the aches and pains, and continue to play for a long, long time.
Gordie Howe (1928-, Canadian hockey player)
True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt (1767-1835, German statesman, philologist)
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906, Norwegian dramatist)
Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.
Michael Jordan (1963-, American basketball player, actor)
Don't complain because you don't have. Enjoy what you've got.
H. Stanley Judd (American author)
I always remember that I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now, unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.
Ken Keyes Jr. (1921-1995, American author)
Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.
Michael Korda (1919-, American publisher)
The extreme delight we experience in talking about ourselves should warn us that those who listen do not share it.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
The self-interest that is blamed for all our misdeeds should also often be praised for our good deeds.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.
Harding Lawrence
What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.
Stephen B. Leacock (1869-1944, Canadian humorist, economist)
The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.
Michael LeBoeuf
People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865, American President (16th))
I have the feeling when I write poetry that I am doing what I am supposed to do.You don't think about whether you're going to get money or fame, you just do it.
Doris Lund
Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.
Helen MacInnes (1907-1985, Scottish author)
It is essential to our well-being, and to our lives, that we play and enjoy life. Every single day do something that makes your heart sing.
Wieder Marcia (American author, speaker)
It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924, American author, founder of Success Magazine)
No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.
Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924, American author, founder of Success Magazine)
The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924, American author, founder of Success Magazine)
You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.
Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924, American author, founder of Success Magazine)
You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.
Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924, American author, founder of Success Magazine)
Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey.
Harold V Melchert
In the first grade, I already knew the pattern of my life. I didn't know the living of it, but I knew the line.... From the first day in school until the day I graduated, everyone gave me one hundred plus in art. Well, where do you go in life?You go to the place where you got one hundred plus.
Louise Nevelson
All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!
Bob Newhart
I'm a firm believer in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.
Jack Nicklaus (1940-, American golfer)
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
Earl Nightingale (1921-1989, American radio announcer, author, motivator, speaker)
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
Earl Nightingale (1921-1989, American radio announcer, author, motivator, speaker)
I always loved running -- it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.
Jesse Owens (1913-1980, American Olympian)
There will be something anguish or elation that is peculiar to this day alone. I rise from sleep and say: hail to the morning! come down to me, my beautiful unknown.
Jessica Powers
To live as fully, as completely as possible, to be happy... is the true aim and end to life.
Llewelyn Powers
For a long time the only time I felt beautiful -- in the sense of being complete as a woman, as a human being, and even female -- was when I was singing.
Leontyne Price (1927, American opera singer)
To be totally at leisure for one day is to be immortal for one day.
Chinese Proverb (Sayings of Chinese origin)
Enjoy yourself, for there is nothing in the world we can call our own.
Macedonian Proverb
Half of an orange tastes just as sweet as a whole one.
Panamanian Proverb
If you're skilled, your wallet will be filled.
Yiddish Proverb (Sayings of Yiddish origin)
Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word "satiety."
Francis Quarles (1592-1644, British poet)
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
Agnes Repplier (1858-1950, American author, social critic)
Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better than that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.
Mary Caroline Richards
I have always said and felt that true enjoyment cannot be described.
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778, Swiss political philosopher, educationist, essayist)
To justify our likes and dislikes, we generally say that the work we dislike is not serious.
Walter Richard Sickert
Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.
John Ruskin (1819-1900, British critic, social theorist)
Nobody can be successful if he doesn't love his work or love his job.
David Sarnoff (1891-1971, Belarus-born American entrepreneur)
Man is that he might have joy.
Joseph F. Smith
The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.
Charles M. Schwab (1862-1939, American industrialist, businessman)
People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in. So having fun isn't an outrageous idea at all. It's a very sensible one.
John Sculley (1939-, American businessman, former chairman of Apple Computers)
People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in. So having fun isn't an outrageous idea at all. It's a very sensible one.
John Sculley (1939-, American businessman, former chairman of Apple Computers)
He enjoys much who is thankful for little.
Thomas Secker
No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.
Florence Scovel Shinn (1876-1953, American artist, metaphysics teacher, author)
Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.
Gerry Sikorski
Any talent that we are born with eventually surfaces as a need.
Marsha Sinetar (American author, "To Build The Life You Want, Create The Work You Love")
Do what you love, the money will follow.
Marsha Sinetar (American author, "To Build The Life You Want, Create The Work You Love")
The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just keeps you from enjoying it.
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991, Polish-born American journalist, writer)
The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.
Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946, Anglo-American essayist, aphorist)
Enjoy yourself -- it's later than you think.
Socrates (BC 469-399, Greek philosopher of Athens)
Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
Socrates (BC 469-399, Greek philosopher of Athens)
Blessed are the well-loved; they exude a strength and a joy that others try to struggle through life without.
Millie Tornton
True inward quietness... is not vacancy, but stability the steadfastness of a single purpose.
Caroline Stephen
A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.
The Talmud (BC 500?-400? AD, Jewish archive of oral tradition)
When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
William M. Thackeray (1811-1863, Indian-born British novelist)
There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism) Source: Ecclesiastes 2:24
The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
A good man doubles the length of his existence, to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past life is to live twice.
Author Unknown
Between each down (dawn?) and setting sun, set aside some time for fun.
Author Unknown
I asked God for all things , that I might enjoy life. God gave life, that I might enjoy all things.
Author Unknown
If you've enjoyed a little and endured a lot, you've really done pretty well.
Author Unknown
What I do, I do very well, and what I don't do well, I don't do at all.
Author Unknown
If you don't get a kick out of the job you're doing you'd better hunt for another one.
Samuel Vauclain (1856-1940, American engineer, inventor)
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
Denis Waitley (1933-, American author, speaker, trainer, peak performance expert) Author's website: www.deniswaitley.com
The best career advice given to the young ... is "Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it."
Katharine Whitehorn (1926-, British journalist)
Fill your life with as many moments and experiences of joy and passion as you humanly can. Start with one experience and build on it.
Marcia Wieder (American speaker, trainer, author)
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate -- that's my philosophy.
Thornton Wilder (1897-1975, American novelist, playwright)
Be all you can be and live a good life -- have fun with it.
Tina Yothers
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