JOY

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(1020 votes)  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
BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher

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(949 votes)  People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.

Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

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(917 votes)  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.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(813 votes)  Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(732 votes)  He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(706 votes)  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.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(650 votes)  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

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(649 votes)  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

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(649 votes)  Where a man can live, he can also live well.

Marcus Aurelius
121-80 AD, Roman Emperor, Philosopher

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(628 votes)  I asked God for all things , that I might enjoy life. God gave life, that I might enjoy all things.

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(626 votes)  I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

C. S. Lewis
1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist

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(584 votes)  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

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(577 votes)  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
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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(568 votes)  ... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Greg Anderson
American Author of ''The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness''

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(564 votes)  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, Founder of Buddhism

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(562 votes)  If you've enjoyed a little and endured a lot, you've really done pretty well.

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(558 votes)  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

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(558 votes)  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

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(552 votes)  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

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(545 votes)  No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.

Florence Scovel Shinn
American Artist, Metaphysics Teacher, Author

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(542 votes)  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

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(542 votes)  Nobody can be successful if he doesn't love his work, love his job.

David Sarnoff
1891-1971, Belarus-born American Entrepreneur

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(532 votes)  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

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(525 votes)  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
Late 19th Century British Reverend

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(512 votes)  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

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(511 votes)  Don't complain because you don't have. Enjoy what you've got.

H. Stanley Judd
American Author

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

Sir James M. Barrie
1860-1937, British Playwright

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(507 votes)  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

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(499 votes)  If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.

Leo Rosten
1908-1997, Polish Born American Political Scientist

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(495 votes)  Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Napoleon Hill
1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich''

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(493 votes)  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,

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(491 votes)  Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

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(490 votes)  When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

William M. Thackeray
1811-1863, Indian-born British Novelist

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

Eileen Caddy
American Spiritual Writer

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(485 votes)  Joy runs deeper than despair

Corrie Ten Boom
Dutch Evangelist

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(484 votes)  Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason.

Platen

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(483 votes)  If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

Katharine Hepburn
1907-, American Actress, Writer

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(482 votes)  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

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(468 votes)  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

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(461 votes)  Inner work is finding joy in work. Our real work is heart work and soul work.

Matthew Fox

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(458 votes)  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
American Author, Speaker

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(458 votes)  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
American Businessman, Founder of Chrysler Motors

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(456 votes)  If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.

Ray Bradbury
1920-, American Science Fiction Writer

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(452 votes)  You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.

Dale Earnhardt
1952-, American Race Car Driver

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(448 votes)  Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Hugh Blair
British Poet

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(442 votes)  Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Dr. Melba Colgrove
American Physician

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

Glen Buck

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(437 votes)  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
American Author, Speaker

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(427 votes)  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
American Gymnast

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

Pierre Coneille

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