Joyful Labor Quotes

I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

Writing keeps me at my desk, constantly trying to write a perfect sentence. It is a great privilege to make one's living from writing sentences. The sentence is the greatest invention of civilization. To sit all day long assembling these extraordinary strings of words is a marvelous thing. I couldn't ask for anything better. It's as near to godliness as I can get.

Even the smallest daily chore can be humanized with the harmony of culture.

He who believes in God is not careful for the morrow, but labors joyfully and with a great heart. "For He giveth His beloved, as in sleep." They must work and watch, yet never be careful or anxious, but commit all to Him, and live in serene tranquility; with a quiet heart, as one who sleeps safely and quietly.

Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.

In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.

Anarchism aims to strip labor of its deadening, dulling aspect, of its gloom and compulsion. It aims to make work an instrument of joy, of strength, of color, of real harmony, so that the poorest sort of a man should find in work both recreation and hope.

It is easy to work when the soul is at play.

Contentment is work so engrossing that you do not know that you are working.

I think that a good education ought to be in part the idea that ease and joy are not synonymous. Some of the most fulfilling pleasures of life are to be found in work - found in work you love to do, work you want to do, work that makes you want to get out of bed in the morning.

Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness.

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

We went to labor in the fields, my wife and I, hand in hand. Scarcely were we conscious of the fatigues of the day. Heaven always blessed our toil.

In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure.

When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.