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Sunday, 6 July 2008
Daily Quote:
"Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life." (Congreve, William - Joy)

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Browse Quotations about Enjoyment

... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.
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.
A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.
As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.
Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!
Chance can allow you to accomplish a goal every once in a while, but consistent achievement happens only if you love what you are doing.
Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.
Don't complain because you don't have. Enjoy what you've got.
Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.
Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.
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, that only can it profit by.
Enjoy yourself -- it's later than you think.
Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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.
He enjoys much who is thankful for little.
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.
He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
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.
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.
I asked God for all things , that I might enjoy life. God gave life, that I might enjoy all things.
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.
I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.
I'm a firm believer that 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.
If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.
If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.
If you don't get a kick out of the job you're doing you'd better hunt for another one.
If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.
If you've enjoyed a little and endured a lot, you've really done pretty well.
If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.
Inner work is finding joy in work. Our real work is heart work and soul work.
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.
It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.
Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find.
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.
Like what you do, if you don't like it, do something else.
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth --look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.
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.
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.
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.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.
Nobody can be successful if he doesn't love his work, love his job.
Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.
Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.
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.
Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.
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.
People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.
People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.
Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word satiety.
The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.
The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.
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.
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.
The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
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.
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.
The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.
The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just keeps you from enjoying it.
The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.
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. [Ecclesiastes 2:24]
To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?
To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.
True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
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.
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.
What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important than what you do.
When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
Where a man can live, he can also live well.