Lailah Gifty Akita quote: Work is done by persistent actions.

“Now she glanced at the piles of books and papers on her desk. There are no chains, she thought, except those we create for ourselves. That, of course, was not entirely true: there were plenty of chains, real or imaginary, that people created for others--or that desks created, she thought...”

Work Obligations

Book:The Novel Habits of Happiness

Source: The Novel Habits of Happiness

“We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing; the next world is the same as this one, with the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.”

Life Work Learn

Author:Richard Bach

“We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing and the next world is as same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.”

Life Work Learn

Book:JOHNATHON LIVINGSTON SEAGULL

Source: JOHNATHON LIVINGSTON SEAGULL

“If you want to succeed in your work، do not bound your back on surrounding، because you have the possibility of drowning.”

Work Succeed Drowning Back Bound Surrounding

Author:Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“It is well known to police corruption researchers that police internal affairs does not work.”

Work Known Police Corruption Officers Researchers Harassment Affairs Cops Internal

Author:Steven Magee

“Again — it cannot be said too often — profits are what you make when not working. This explains why, in most instances, the secret to getting rich is not to work hard but to get others to work hard for you.”

Work Working

Book:Dirty Truths

Source: Dirty Truths

“The modern urban-industrial society is based on a series of radical disconnections between body and soul, husband and wife, marriage and community, community and the earth. At each of these points of disconnection the collaboration of corporation, government, and expert sets up a profit-making enterprise that results in the further dismemberment and impoverishment of the Creation. Together, these disconnections add up to a condition of critical ill health, which we suffer in common -- not just with each other, but with all other creatures. Our economy is based upon this disease. Its aim is to separate us as far as possible from the sources of life (material, social, and spiritual), to put these sources under the control of corporations and specialized professionals, and to see them to us at the highest profit. It fragments the Creation and sets the fragments into conflict with one another. For the relief of the suffering that comes of this fragmentation and conflict, our economy proposes, not health, but vast "cures" that further centralize power and increase profits... Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health. And what our society does its best to disguise from us is how ordinary, how commonly attainable, health is. We lose our health -- and create profitable diseases and dependencies -- by failing to see the direction connections between living and eating, eating and working, working and loving. In gardening, for instance, one works with the body to feed the body. The work, if it is knowledgeable, makes for excellent food. And it makes one hungry. The work thus makes eating both nourishing and joyful, not consumptive, and keeps the eater from getting fat and weak. This is health, wholeness, a source of delight. And such a solution, unlike the typical industrial solution, does not cause new problems.”

Culture Work Society Health Agriculture Agrarianism

Book:The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

Source: The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

“My temple followed the Zen tradition; therefore every one of us from the highest monk to the newest member equally followed the principle of "no work, no food.”

Work Zen

Book:My Master's Robe: Memories of a Novice Monk

Source: My Master's Robe: Memories of a Novice Monk

“We all worked, but we didn't work all day. There was time for us to study the sutras, practice writing, listen to the teachings given by our teacher, chant, and meditate. Most important was meditation. My teacher taught that meditation was the door to understanding, and the career of monks and nuns.”

Work Meditation

Book:My Master's Robe: Memories of a Novice Monk

Source: My Master's Robe: Memories of a Novice Monk

“I always cringe when I take a salaried job in the USA and find there is an expectation for me to work really long unpaid hours.”

Work Job Always Find Expectation Really Long Cringe Take Salaried Unpaid Hours

Author:Steven Magee

Quote by Lailah Gifty Akita

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