The WORK
1.Is it true?
2.Can you absolutely know that it's true?
3.How do you react when you think that thought?
4.Who would you be without the thought?
- Byron Katie
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
Never be fooled into believing that
there is one speck out of order.
- Byron Katie
No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie
If you want something to be different than it is,
you might as well teach a cat to bark.
Wanting something to be different than it is, is hopeless.
- Byron Katie
Love what is.
- Byron Katie
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself -
your own thinking coming back at you.
- Byron Katie
Become "a lover of what is."
- Byron Katie
There's no wrong, only discovery...
- Byron Katie
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits
and then complain that he's not the man she married?
- Barbra Streisand 
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
- Oscar Wilde
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
- Edgar Bergen
If a man smiles all the time,
he's probably selling something that doesn't work.
- George Carlin
Anyone can do any amount of work
provided it isn't the work
he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
- Robert Benchley
There are two kinds of people,
those who do the work,
and those who take the credit.
Try to be in the first group;
there is less competition there.
- Indira Gandhi
As a cure for worrying,
work is better than whiskey.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most of what we call management consists of
making it difficult for people to get their work done.
- Peter F. Drucker
The third certainty of life, after death and taxes,
is that nothing will work out the way you want.
Life is fully as bad as you think it is.
Choose to live joyfully anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
Balance good, karate good. Everything good.
Balance bad, better pack up, go home. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
The Ought-To Need-To Tango:
I am racked with the guilt and the pain of I should,
and I ought, and I can't, but I must.
I can't rest; I can't sleep; I'm just not understood,
and I hate that the world is unjust.
I have work; I have woes; I have troubles for life;
but I don't have a ME that I trust.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
Capitalism tries for a delicate balance:
It attempts to work things out so that
everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from
getting violent and trying to take other people's stuff.
- George Carlin
It's work only if I say it's work,
but it's play if I say it's fun.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have found out that though the ways in which
I can make myself useful are few,
yet the work open to me is endless.
- Helen Keller
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
- Proverb
Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
- Henry David Thoreau
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
- Satchel Paige
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
We are free only if we face the challenge of freedom,
do the work of freedom, fight the fight of freedom
and die the death for freedom.
- Charles G. Adams
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
- Michael Jordan
Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly.
Play as often as you can
Work as smart as you are able.
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Many hands make light work.
- Proverb
If in our daily life we can smile,
if we can be peaceful and happy,
not only we, but everyone will profit from it.
This is the most basic kind of peace work.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
When nature has work to be done,
she creates a genius to do it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
- Henry Kaiser
Work as smart as you are able.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You are never given a wish without also
being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach
Men of lofty genius,
when they are doing the least work,
are most active.
- Leonardo da Vinci
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
- John Ruskin
The difference between work and play lies 100%
in the attitude of the participant.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
A man should do his job so well that the living,
the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What work I have done I have done because it has been play.
If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.
- Mark Twain
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman
Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
- Nelson Mandela
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary
to put all the play and learning into childhood,
all the work into middle age,
and all the regrets into old age.
- Margaret Mead
A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work,
so most people don't recognize them.
- Ann Landers
Have convictions. Be friendly.
Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs.
Work as hard as they do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
There is joy in work.
There is no happiness except in the realization
that we have accomplished something.
- Henry Ford
By nature, we are all creatures of habit.
We instinctively adopt familiar routines for most activities.
We eat about the same number of meals each day -
at more or less the same times.
We have a regular pattern of sleeping -
unless it is perturbed by illness or shift work.
Most everything we do is habitual.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning
wondering what my intuition
will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea.
I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.
- Jonas Salk
The Tao of the sage is work without effort.
Practice non-action. Work without doing.
- Lao Tzu
Hard work pays off.
- Anonymous
If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau
Let us touch the dying, the poor,
the lonely and the unwanted
according to the graces we have received
and let us not be ashamed
or slow to do the humble work.
- Mother Teresa
You only live once -
but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis
Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison
We believe that if men have the talent
to invent new machines that put men out of work,
they have the talent to put those men back to work.
- John F. Kennedy
My experience has been that work is
almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Do not hire a man who does your work for money,
but him who does it for love of it.
- Henry David Thoreau
Football is like life - it requires perseverance,
self-denial, hard work, sacrifice,
dedication and respect for authority.
- Vince Lombardi
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
I love this work I do.
It's a privilege to serve the poor.
- Bono
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work
for which he is best suited.
- Napoleon Hill
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May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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