“Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.” MenEndsFeelingsMarriageProfessionOccupationLivelihoodInconvenience Author:Honore de Balzac
“All our suffering is associated with this pre-occupation. All loss and gain, pleasure and pain arise because we identify so closely with this vague feeling of selfness that we have. We are so emotionally involved with and attached to this "self" that we take it for granted.” SelfFeelingsPainSufferingLossPleasureInvolvedGainsAriseGrantedOccupationVaguePain And Pleasure Author:Francisco Varela
“We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You are forced on exertion. You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions.” WorldBookHelpingFeelingsHomeLanguageForgetFateQuietProfessionPursuitImpressionMeritOccupationPreyConfinedForget YouExertion Author:Jane Austen
“Really living without clutter takes an iron will ... This involves eternal watchfulness and that oldest and most relentless of the housewife's occupations, picking up. I have a feeling that picking up will go on long after ways have been found to circumvent death and taxes.” WayLongHas BeensFeelingsFoundGoes OnTaxesEternalIronOccupationRelentlessHousewifeClutterHouseworkWatchfulnessReally LivingIron Will Book:On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change Source: On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change
“It is to our lack of proper content ("notre manque de contenu propre:;», Fr.), of our inner emptiness that we need occupations and distractions, otherwise ("faute de quoi", Fr.) we experience boredom, which is nothing elses than the feeling of unease that take hold of us when our spirit is not absorbed by the mirages of life.” NeedsFeelingsSpiritBoredomEmptinessOccupationDistractionMirages Author:African Spir