For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
The joy of life is in the work.
We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
I love working alone. Crave it, in fact. I feel truly alive then.
To work is to feel alive.
Doing something you enjoy at times of your own choosing and making a living from it: now tell me, is that work?
I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
The best part of one's life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to succeed... However, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing.
Life is meant to be enjoyed, not just endured.
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