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“The joy about our work is spoiled when we perform it not because of what we produce but because of the pleasure with which it can provide us, or the pain against which it can protect us.”

Pain Joy Work Pleasure Produce Protect Spoiled

Book:The New Being

Source: The New Being

“I work my back 'til it's racked with pain, the boss can't even recall my name.”

Pain Names Work Boss Recalls

Author:Bob Seger

“The wino and I know the pain of back bustin'.”

Knows Pain Work Winos

Author:Jimmy Buffett

“No matter how many times I tell you this, you're still thinking, thinking, judging, judging, coming to conclusions, trying to work out your life. You have to let go. Totally, absolutely, completely. You have to let go so completely that you will feel no body, no mind, no pain, nothing.”

Thinking Life Feels Trying Mind Stills Matter Body Pain Work Judging Letting Go Work Out Conclusion No Pain

Author:Robert Adams

“Within each experience of pain or negativity is the opportunity to challenge the perception that lies behind it, the fear that lies behind it, and choose to learn with wisdom. The fear will not vanish immediately, but it will disintegrate as you work with courage. When fear ceases to scare you, it cannot stay. When you choose to learn through wisdom, to evolve consciously, your fears surface one at a time in order for you to exorcise them with inner faith. This is how it happens. You exorcise your own demons.”

Source: The Seat of the Soul: 25th Anniversary Edition with a Study Guide

“The history of work has been, in part, the history of the worker's body. Production depended on what the body could accomplish with strength and skill. Techniques that improve output have been driven by a general desire to decrease the pain of labor as well as by employers' intentions to escape dependency upon that knowledge which only the sentient laboring body could provide.”

Source: In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power

“Skilled workers historically have been ambivalent toward automation, knowing that the bodies it would augment or replace were theoccasion for both their pain and their power.”

Has Beens Body Pain Work Knowing Workers Automation Ambivalent Skilled Workers

Author:Shoshana Zuboff

“There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.”

Littles Two Matter Bigs Pain Force Work Attitude Positive Gratitude Illness Disaster Positive Attitude Internals Flood Earthquakes Tornadoes External Forces

Book:LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING

Source: LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING

“Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.”

Life Motivational Pain Work Genius Capacity Infinite Take A Chance Recreation Holmes Watson Scarlet Study In Scarlet Detective Work

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.”

Writing Pain Work Hell Written Built

Book:Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings

Source: Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings

“Some labor this side of the veil, others on the other side of the veil. If we tarry here we expect to labor in the cause of salvation and if we go hence we expect to continue our work until the coming of the Son of Man. The only difference is, while we are here we are subject to pain and sorrow, while they on the other side are free from affliction of every kind.”

Ifs Men Kind Pain Causes Sides Differences Work Subjects Son Sorrow Labor Salvation Affliction Veils Pain And Sorrow

Author:Wilford Woodruff

“The labor we delight in physics [cures] pain.”

Pain Work Labor Delight Physics Cures

Author:William Shakespeare