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• Enjoy the blessings of this day, if God sends them; and the evils of it bear patiently and sweetly: for this day only is ours, we are dead to yesterday, and we are not yet born to the morrow.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Blessing, Yesterday, Evil

  Jeremy Taylor (1834). “The Beauties of J. Taylor: Selected from His Works with an Essay on His Life and Writings”, p.365

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• We must endure to the end; . . . We must so live as to acquire the attributes of godliness and become the kind of people who can enjoy the glory and wonders of the celestial kingdom.

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  People, Kingdoms, Kind

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• We should begin by setting conscience free. When all men of all religions shall enjoy equal liberty, property, and an equal chance for honors and power we may expect that improvements will be made in the human character and the state of society.

  John Adams

  Religious, Father, Character

  John Adams (2015). “The Works of John Adams Vol. 8: Letters and State Papers 1782 - 1799”, p.197, Jazzybee Verlag

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• We have to learn how to stop being afraid of people who are different than us, who are supposedly our enemies. We are taught that our enemies are there, not that people want to live in peace. They don't want to fight. They just want to live and enjoy life and accomplish things.

  Eytan Fox

  Fighting, People, Enjoy Life

  "Exploring Masculinity and Modern Views of Israeli’s, Eytan Fox Discusses 'Walk on Water'". IndieWire Interview, www.indiewire.com. March 3, 2005.

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• Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something. If this is true, or if you are one of the people who believe this is true, then the one universal way to enjoy life is still the same, which is to learn to be grateful that it is not worse!!

  William Goldman

  Gratitude, Pain, Believe

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• It's foolish to go through life bemoaning the fact that you can't have this or that. Twaddle! You can omit certain foods and still enjoy eating.

  James Beard

  Facts, Eating, Foolish

  James Beard, Hal Kendig (1993). “James Beard's simple foods”, Macmillan Pub Co

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• Pleasure, when it is a man's chief purpose, disappoints itself; and the constant application to it palls the faculty of enjoying it.

  Richard Steele

  Men, Purpose, Pleasure

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.475

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• The journey makes things valuable not the title. Learn to enjoy and value the process of what God is doing.

  Bill Johnson

  Journey, Titles, Process

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• I don't believe in happiness anyway... it's too much of an American pastime, this search for happiness. Just forget happiness and enjoy your misery.

  Frank McCourt

  Happiness, Believe, Too Much

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• How on the face of the earth could a man enjoy his religion, when he had been told by the Lord how to prepare for a day of famine, when, instead of doing so, he had fooled away that which would have sustained him and his family.

  George A. Smith

  Religious, Men, Self Reliance

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• Industry is not only the instrument of improvement, but the foundation of pleasure. He who is a stranger to it may possess, but cannot enjoy, for it is labor only which gives relish to pleasure. It is the indispensable condition of possessing a sound mind in a sound body, and it is the appointed vehicle of every good to man.

  Robert Blair

  Men, Giving, Mind

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• Down you go, but all the while you feel suspended and buoyed as you somersault in slow motion like a somnolent tumbler pigeon, and sprawl supine on the eiderdown of the air, or lazily turn to embrace your pillow, enjoying every last instant of soft, deep, death-padded life, with the earth's green see-saw now above, now below, and the voluptuous crucifixion, as you stretch yourself in the growing rush, in the nearing swish, and then your loved body's obliteration in the Lap of the Lord.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Air, Saws, Lap

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• I believe that nothing enjoys a higher estate in our society than the right given by the First and Fourteenth Amendments freely to practice and proclaim one's religious convictions.

  Frank Murphy

  Religious, Believe, Practice

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• People don't enjoy salt. They enjoy what is salted. We are the salt of the earth. We do not exist for ourselves.

  John Piper

  People, Earth, Salt

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• Not acknowledging that beauty is complex-that's the problem. I enjoy making it complex for people, because that's my world.

  Fred Wilson

  People, World, Problem

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• I enjoy basketball. I enjoy coaching basketball. It's the out-of-season stuff I didn't handle well.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Coaching, Stuff

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• If you are perpetually angry, depressed, confused, and unloving, or your attention is elsewhere, it won't matter how successful you become or who is in your life - you won't enjoy any of it.

  Sam Harris

  Confused, Successful, Matter

  Sam Harris (2014). “Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• The squid is so cooperative. Its body forms a tube that can be stuffed with marvelous fillings. You don't have to be Greek to enjoy this one.

  Jeff Smith

  Food, Squids, Greek

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• What I enjoy about the live experience is getting onstage, being handed a guitar that is in tune, taking it off mute, knowing that the very moment I want to play a note, I can play it. People are waiting on me and I'm waiting on me, and I have no idea what I'm going to play. That's the biggest joy in life.

  John Mayer

  Guitar, Play, Ideas

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• The Landlord is a gentleman who does not earn his wealth. He has a host of agents and clerks that receive for him. He does not even take the trouble to spend his wealth. He has a host of people around him to do the actual spending. He never sees it until he comes to enjoy it. His sole function, his chief pride, is the stately consumption of wealth produced by others.

  David Lloyd

  Pride, People, Gentleman

  Speech in Limehouse, East London, on July 30, 1909. The Times, p. 9, July 31, 1909.

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• You have more fun and enjoy more financial success when you stop trying to get what you want and start helping other people get what they want.

  Spencer Johnson

  Fun, Helping Others, People

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• The thing that I enjoy about being an actor and the thing that I enjoy about the arts in general is the ability to make the audience feel an emotion that they weren't intending to feel before they went in.

  Kal Penn

  Art, Actors, Emotion

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Dancing was a big part of my life, but I would never consider myself a dancer. I adore singing, and music has always been a huge part of my life, but I also enjoy acting.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Dancing, Dancer, Singing

  "Vanessa Hudges, Ashley Tisdale and Monique Coleman Spill All on High School Musical 3: Senior Year". Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment Interview, movieweb.com. February 16, 2009.

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• I enjoy winning, but more importantly I enjoy the people I'm around.

  Jerry West

  Winning, People

  Source: espn.go.com

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• On a movie, you have a great time, and you're really enjoying the work, and then everybody is done and goes their separate ways, and you maybe never get to work with those people again.

  Denis Leary

  People, Done, Way

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 22, 2005.

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