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• It is not brilliance or facility that is necessary, but the determination to bear and even enjoy the dull process of wading into one's own bad prose again, and one more time, and then once again, with the utmost concentration and taste, looking for opportunities to mine deeper.

  Stewart O'Nan

  Determination, Opportunity, Dull

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• I happen to be a pessimist, and maybe that's a good thing because I don't stop to smell the roses - which is not a good personal thing. I don't stop and enjoy those moments. Always on to the next and never in the moment.

  Nicki Minaj

  Smell, Rose, Next

  "Nicki Minaj Continues Newsstand Domination With Complex Cover" by Nadeska Alexis, www.mtv.com. March 20, 2012.

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• Find a way to enjoy parts of every run. Most of your runs should be mostly enjoyable.

  Jeff Galloway

  Running, Way, Should

  Jeff Galloway (2010). “Running Until You're 100”, p.40, Meyer & Meyer Verlag

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• The runner must be a fanatic for hard work and enthusiastic enough to enjoy it.

  Franz Stampfl

  Hard Work, Enough, Enthusiastic

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• I was clever enough to know that John Donne was offering something that was awfully enjoyable. I just wasn't clever enough to actually enjoy it.

  Wallace Shawn

  Clever, Offering, Enough

  Wallace Shawn (2010). “The Designated Mourner”, p.22, Theatre Communications Group

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• We Americans think we enjoy self-government. We have all the trappings of self-government, like elections. But in reality, we have gradually lost many of our rights to govern ourselves. We have the form of self-government, but only some of the substance. We are, in a sense, a nation run by a handful of judges who often enforce, not the law, but their personal opinions.

  Charles Colson

  Running, Reality, Thinking

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• Passion is the great slayer of adversity. Focus on strengths and what you enjoy.

  Charles R. Schwab

  Passion, Adversity, Focus

  "Charles Schwab didn't let dyslexia stop him". Interview with Todd Plitt, usatoday30.usatoday.com. November 10, 2003.

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• Nothing from outside can stop a man from enjoying lasting peace and permanent joy in life, for it is the essential nature of his own soul.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Men, Joy, Soul

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1986). “Thirty Years Around the World: 1957-1964”, Stichting Drukkerij En Uitgeverij Mvu

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• You only go from nowhere to everywhere once. Let's enjoy it!

  Huey Lewis

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• Whenever I'm with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company.

  Alan Bradley

  People, Littles, Company

  Alan Bradley (2011). “A Red Herring Without Mustard: A Flavia de Luce Novel”, p.85, Delacorte Press

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• I am not asking whether you know things about Him but do you know God, are you enjoying God, is God the centre of your life, the soul of your being, the source of your greatest joy? He is meant to be.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Joy, Soul, Asking

  D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (2016). “Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cures”, p.21, Zondervan

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• If you're happy, that's probably the most important thing. Everyone probably has their own definition of success, for me it's happiness. Do I enjoy what I'm doing? Do I enjoy the people I'm with? Do I enjoy my life?

  Michael Dell

  People, Important, Definitions

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• There is a story about a schoolboy who was asked what he thought God was like. He replied that, as far as he could make out, God was 'the sort of person who is always snooping around to see if anyone is enjoying himself and then trying to stop it.'

  C. S. Lewis

  Trying, Stories, Snooping

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• We all have obligations and duties toward our fellow men. But it does seem curious enough that in modern neurotic society, men's energies are consumed in making a living and rarely in living itself. It takes a lot of courage for a man to declare, with clarity and simplicity, that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.

  Lin Yutang

  Men, Simplicity, Fellow Man

  Yutang Lin (1962). “The pleasures of a nonconformist”

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• The fact that God gave the whole human race the earth to use and enjoy cannot indeed in any manner serve as an objection against private possessions.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Race, Use, Earth

  Catholic Church. Pope (1878-1903 : Leo XIII)., Pope Leo XIII (1987*). “On the Condition of Workers”

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• You have to enjoy playing. The old-timers did, and that's one reason why their music is a lasting music. I feel that I play jazz to entertain the listener, and you just can't do that unless you yourself are entertained at the same time.

  Barry Harris

  Play, Reason Why, Jazz

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• I still enjoy watching a batter successfully cross home plate, but nothing thrills me more than seeing the Holy Spirit at work in hearts as the Gospel is carried into stadiums, across the airwaves, and around the world.

  Billy Graham

  Home, Heart, World

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• Sugar is celebratory. Sugar is something that we used to enjoy. Now, it basically has coated our tongues. It's turned into a diet staple, and it's killing us.

  Robert Lustig

  Sugar, Tongue, Killing

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• I say embrace the total geek in yourself and just enjoy it. Life is too short to be cool.

  Shirley Manson

  Life Is Too Short, Geek, Embrace

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• And though it is most certain, that two lutes being both strung and turned to an equal pitch, and then one played upon, the other will warble a faint audible harmony in answer to the same tune: yet many will not believe there is any such thing as sympathy of souls, and I am well pleased that every reader do enjoy his own opinion.

  Izaak Walton

  Believe, Two, Soul

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• I like the pleasant things most women enjoy, even if I do wear breeches and boots on an expedition, even sleep in them at times.... but I powder my nose before going on deck, no matter how rough the sea is.

  Louise Boyd

  Sleep, Sea, Noses

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• Don't live to please everyone. Embrace those who enjoy your company and to hell with the haters.

  Dr. Seuss

  Hell, Embrace, Please

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• Surely the thing God enjoys most about being God is the thrill of being merciful, especially to those who don't expect it and often feel they don't deserve it.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Thrill, Being Me, Feels

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• We all desire to be understood, but no one enjoys being obvious.

  Trevanian

  Desire, Obvious, Understood

  Trevanian (2005). “The Summer of Katya: A Novel”, p.22, Crown

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• Work Hard, Enjoy what you do and be good to other human beings, we all equal, Being a good persons whats make you special.

  Jay Park

  Hard Work, Special, Good Person

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