Savoring the Experience Quotes

I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that this is not a dress rehearsal, and that today is the only guarantee you get.

That’s why it is important to enjoy the journey not just the destination. In this world, we will never arrive at a place where everything is perfect and we have no more challenges. As admirable as setting goals and reaching them maybe, you can’t get so focused on accomplishing your goals that you make the mistake of not enjoying where you are right now.

This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.

The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast, and you miss all you are traveling for.

It's not the destination, It's the glory of the ride.

Slowing down reminds you that the journey is supposed to be fun.

Forget being the best of anything. That's the fruit of the action, and you do the work -they say- for the doing, not the fruit. You can never really know how it's gonna turn out in the world but you know if you enjoy doing it. And ideas start flowing and you start getting, you know, excited about stuff. Then you're having a great time in the doing and that's what it's all about. If you don't enjoy the doing, then do something else.

Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.

The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good.

The joy is in the journey, not the destination. We have a better chance of seeing where we are when we stop trying to get somewhere else.

Too soon we breast the tape and too late we realize the fun lay in the running. We deny that the end justifies the means without ever stopping to consider that for practical purposes the End and the Means are one and the same thing. If there is to be any satisfaction in life it must come in transit, for who can tell when he will be struck down in mid-method?

Stop taking pictures and start experiencing life.

Stop and smell the garlic! That's all you have to do.

Do not spoil the wonder with haste!

It makes no difference how many peaks you reach if there was no pleasure in the climb.

In the end, it's all about taking your time and enjoying the journey without worrying too much about the destination.

Anytime that I have an impulse to pull out my phone and take a picture, especially of a landscape or something, if the first thing I do is reach for the phone, I actually force myself to sit there and at least wait thirty seconds before I actually grab my phone. I'm, like, "No, sit here for thirty seconds, and just see what you think about. What does this make you think about?"

Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.

What keeps you from... living your life as a painful and lovely day in the history of a great pregnancy?

Never ask while you are doing it if what you are doing is fun. Don't introduce even your most reliably witty acquaintance as someone who will set the table on a roar.

You have to enjoy life in the process. It may sound corny, but it's true. At the end of the day, we can't always achieve everything that we dream of but you do have to enjoy life in the process.

Sometimes we become so focused on the finish line, that we fail to find joy in the journey.

I've had dates at the nicest restaurants, but when you leave, you're starving, and the best part of the date is having a slice of pizza and a couple of drinks on the way home. I think it's important to be able to roll with the punches and enjoy every minute of it.

And I put the latte down on a table, awash in the happy middle of my greatest adventure.