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41 " A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. "
― Albert Camus
42 " It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious. "
― John Irving , The Hotel New Hampshire
43 " This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half. "
― George Orwell , Animal Farm
44 " Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it. "
― Ellen DeGeneres
45 " Single is no longer a lack of options – but a choice. A choice to refuse to let your life be defined by your relationship status but to live every day Happily and let your Ever After work itself out. "
― Mandy Hale , The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
46 " If something doesn't work exactly right, or maybe needs some special treatment, you don't just throw it away. Everything can't be fully operational all the time. Sometimes, we need to have the patience to give something the little nudge it needs. "
― Sarah Dessen , Keeping the Moon
47 " You attract who you are being. When you work at being the type of person that you want to attract, you attract those kinds of people into your life. "
― , The Light in the Heart
48 " And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit. "
― Martin Amis , London Fields
49 " The world is 3 days: As for yesterday, it has vanished along with all that was in it. As for tomorrow, you may never see it. As for today, it is yours, so work on it. "
― al-Hasan al-Basri
50 " I hope you will go out and let stories, that is life, happen to you, and that you will work with these stories... water them with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom. "
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés , Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
51 " Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living. "
― Gautama Buddha
52 " Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning. "
― Václav Havel
53 " The difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leaving the house for work, at eight o'clock on an ordinary morning:The non-suicide is a little traveling suck of care, sucking care with him from the past and being sucked toward care in the future. His breath is high in his chest.The ex-suicide opens his front door, sits down on the steps, and laughs. Since he has the option of being dead, he has nothing to lose by being alive. It is good to be alive. He goes to work because he doesn't have to. "
― Walker Percy , Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
54 " I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art. "
― Madonna
55 " If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure. "
56 " The power of God is with you at all times; through the activities of mind, senses, breathing, and emotions; and is constantly doing all the work using you as a mere instrument. "
― , Bhagavad Gita: El Canto del Senor
57 " Let us work without reasoning,' said Martin; 'it is the only way to make life endurable. "
― Voltaire , Candide
58 " Things don't always work out the way we hope. You just have to pick yourself up and find a new direction to go in. "
― Joelle Charbonneau , The Testing (The Testing, #1)
59 " All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose. "
― Brian Tracy , Personal Success (The Brian Tracy Success Library)
60 " A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips; -- not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself. "
― Henry David Thoreau , Walden
