Alice Walker Quotes

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

I just want to make whatever is exciting.

I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose, because settling is the worst feeling in the world.

Any chance I get, I will dance.

If you are without impulses, you are, to a degree, without joy..." 469

Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.

The habit of always putting off an experience until you can afford it, or until the time is right, or until you know how to do it is one of the greatest burglars of joy. Be deliberate, but once you've made up your mind -jump in.

Open-faced sandwiches take risks and live big and smile with all their teeth. These are the people I want to be around.

Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all.

I want to do my best to make the people happy. I play with my heart for the sport.

Innovation comes from people who take joy in their work.

Do it for joy and you can do it forever

Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon

It's not work, it is more of a passion. It is so much fun and it is really makes you feel great at the end of the day. You feel like you are really after doing something good and you are after accomplishing something. Acting is one of these things that I can't really describe - it's just like, why do you love your mum and dad? You know, you just do.

Find something that you love. Something that gets you so excited you can't wait to get out of bed in the morning. Forget about money. Be happy.

Postpone joy, it will diminish. Postpone a problem, it will grow.

I was just pursuing what I enjoyed doing. I mean, I was pursuing my passion.

As long as I can do something that I am passionate about and that I can really enjoy and the audience can enjoy. That is where my enthusiasm comes from.

When you love something, every day goes by in 10 minutes.

Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all. When people suggest you follow your "passion" or your "bliss," I propose that they are, in fact, referring to the same singular concept: excitement. This brings us full circle. The question you should be asking isn't, "What do I want?" or "What are my goals?" but "What would excite me?"

The key is to do what you love.

I wake up so full of life and feeling so alive and so full of joy when I get to go to a set and tell a story. I just - I couldn't imagine not having that, and what a gift it's been in my life.

Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion.

It is not true that people who accomplish things don't waste time and that people who waste time don't accomplish things. The very concept is ill-informed. You can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment.

I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.