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Get Inspired for Happiness Strategy 9: Savoring Life's Joys

Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.  

- Greg Anderson  

Where a man can live, he can also live well.  

- Marcus Aurelius  

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.  

- Richard Bach  

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  

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, Bible  

Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.  

- Matt Biondi  

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  

If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.  

- Ray Bradbury  

If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.  

- Glen Buck  

Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.  

- Eileen Caddy  

You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.  

- Dale Carnegie  

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  

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.  

- Bart Conner  

Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find.  

- Anthony J D'Angelo  

You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.  

- Dale Earnhardt  

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.  

- Malcolm S Forbes  

Inner work is finding joy in work. Our real work is heart work and soul work.  

- Matthew Fox  

People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.  

- Joe Gibbs  

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 more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.  

- Jerry Gillies  

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.  

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  

Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.  

- Paul Goodman  

As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.  

- Steffi Graf  

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  

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.  

- Katharine Hepburn  

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.  

- Napoleon Hill  

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.  

- Napoleon Hill  

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.  

- Ben Hogan  

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  

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.  

- Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt  

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.  

- Michael Jordan  

Don't complain because you don't have. Enjoy what you've got.  

- H Stanley Judd  

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  

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  

People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.  

- Abraham Lincoln  

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.  

- Helen Macinness  

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  

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.  

- Wieder Marcia  

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  

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  

It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.  

- Orison Swett Marden  

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  

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  

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  

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.  

- Jack Nicklaus  

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  

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  

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  

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.  

- Mary Caroline Richards  

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.  

- Jean Jacques Rousseau  

Nobody can be successful if he doesn't love his work, love his job.  

- David Sarnoff  

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  

No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.  

- Florence Scovel Shinn  

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.  

- Gerry Sikorski  

Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think.  

- Socrates  

I asked God for all things , that I might enjoy life. God gave life, that I might enjoy all things.  

- Source Unknown  

If you don't get a kick out of the job you're doing you'd better hunt for another one.  

- Samuel Vauclain  

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.  

- Denis Waitley  

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  

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.  

- Sir James M Barrie  

I have no greater joy then to hear that my children walk in truth.  

- John 4, Bible  

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice!  

- Philippians 4:4, Bible  

Joy runs deeper than despair.  

- Corrie Ten Boom  

When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you die, will YOU be happy when everybody else is crying?  

- Tony Campolo  

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.  

- Doctor Melba Colgrove  

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.  

- Pierre Coneille  

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow -- I have still joy in the midst of all these things.  

- Confucius  

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life.  

- William Congreve  

We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness.  

- R W Dale  

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.  

- Henry Fielding  

Joys divided are increased.  

- Josiah Gilbert Holland  

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.  

- Elbert Hubbard  

Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.  

- Martin Luther King Jr.  

I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.  

- C S Lewis  

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.  

- Rollo May  

Happy is the person who not only sings, but feels God's eye is on the sparrow, and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God is true joy.  

- Alfred A Montapert  

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love  

- Mother Teresa  

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.  

- Jean Paul  

Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason.  

- Platen  

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.  

- Chinese Proverb  

We French found it and called it joie de vivre -- the joy of living.  

- Renee Repound  

The joy is that we can take back our bodies, reclaim our health, and restore ourselves to balance. We can take power over what and how we eat. We can rejuvenate and recharge ourselves, bringing healing to the wounds we carry inside us, and bringing to fuller life the wonderful person that each of us can be.  

- John Robbins  

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.  

- Jim Rohn  

The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy.  

- Samuel M Shoemaker  

For one mother, joy is the quiet pleasure found in gently rubbing shampoo into her young child's hair. For another woman it's taking a long walk alone, while for yet another it's reviling in a much -- anticipated vacation.  

- Eileen Stukane  

Joy is free, unrestrained passion  

- Eileen Stukane  

May your joys be as deep as the ocean, your sorrows as light as its foam.  

- Source Unknown  

The end of life is life. Life is action, the use of one's powers. And to use them to their height is our joy of duty.  

- Source Unknown  

Joy is not in things, it is in us.  

- Richard Wagner  

Joy, has no cost.  

- Marianne Williamson  

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