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Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.




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People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can’t be fixed.




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Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.




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Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.




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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.




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Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.




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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.




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This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.




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I think the most significant work we’ll do in our whole life, in our whole world is done within the four walls of our home.




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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he’s not the man she married?




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There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.




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If we can just let go and trust that things will work out they way they’re supposed to, without trying to control the outcome, then we can begin to enjoy the moment more fully. The joy of the freedom it brings becomes more pleasurable than the experience itself.




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Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won’t make us happier.




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Procrastination: Hard work often pays off after time, but laziness always pays off now.




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Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.




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Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.




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Your success is your responsibility. Take the initiative, do the work, and persist to the end.




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I think it’s bad to talk about one’s present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.




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The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.




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A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.






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