There is nothing better than work. Work is also play; children know that. Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.
To work to make the lives or others better is the most rewarding work of all.
The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
I come from the kind of family where work is work; my parents always taught me that it's better to be doing something than sitting around doing nothing.
For me, now, working and children is it. There's nothing more to life.
Life is more important than work.
Working gets in the way of living.
When you enjoy what you do, work becomes play.
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
I think I'm a better mother because of work, because I'm happy. If I wasn't working, I would just be waiting for the kids to come home every day, and living vicariously through their lives.
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