“Joy is always an integral part of loving. There is joy in every act of life, no matter how menial or repetitive. To work in love is to work in joy. To live in love is to live in joy... Why not choose joy?... Why not live in joy?” LifeMatterJoyWorkLove IsWhy NotRepetitive Author:Leo Buscaglia
“What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt Held in cohesion by unresting cells, Which work they know not why, which never halt, Myself unwitting where their Master dwells?” KnowsLifeWorkMastersCellsSaltHaltCohesion Book:The Poems and Plays of John Masefield: Poems Source: The Poems and Plays of John Masefield: Poems
“On one of those rare occasions when Bach appraised his own life's work, he remarked: I worked hard.” LifeHardWorkOccasionsHard LifeRare Occasion Author:Johann Sebastian Bach
“You can walk as carefully as you want through a mine field; it is still a mine field. But it's also true that if you step up to the plate worrying that you're going to strike out, the odds are that you're going to strike out. Not doing a large ambitious work because you're convinced that Danger Lurks Around Every Corner, the old 'I might be dead this time next year,' is a waste of the Inner Radiance that found you. It's like life insurance. It's betting against yourself. It's blowing out your own flame before someone beats you to it.” IfsWantLifeYearsStillsMightNextFoundWorkWalksStepsWorryDangerFieldsMinesWasteBeatsCornersConvincedStrikesFlamesAmbitiousOddsPlatesNext YearStep UpRadianceBettingFound You Author:Dave Sim
“The purpose of the whole [the Comedy] and of this portion [the Paradiso] is to remove those who are living in this life from the state of wretchedness, and to lead them to the state of blessedness.” LifeStatesWholePurposeWorkThis LifeRemoveWretchednessBlessedness Author:Dante Alighieri
“We are here on earth to work-to work long, hard, arduous hours, to work until our backs ache and our tired muscles knot, to work all our days. This mortal probation is one in which we are to eat our bread in the sweat of our faces until we return to the dust from whence we came. Work is the law of life; it is the ruling principle in the lives of the Saints.” LifeLongHardEarthFacesLawHoursWorkPrinciplesReturnTiredSaintBreadDustMortalsMusclesSweatAcheRulingKnotsLaws Of LifeProbation Author:Bruce R. McConkie