Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.
Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
It is high time to declare an end to the breastfeeding dictatorship that is drowning women in guilt and worry just when they most need support: after the birth of a child.
There is no labor in which we engage but that there is a spirit telling us, 'Oh, you do not need to do that; it is a waste of time, and you ought to be engaged in something else.'
Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.
Labor gives birth to ideas.