"The law of work does seem utterly..." - Quote by Mark Twain
The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, too.
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“I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
“An inglorious peace is better than a dishonorable war.”
“We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.”
More on Work
“The world does not pay men for that which they “know”. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.”
“People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when hard at work.”
“We get paid for bringing value to the marketplace. It takes time,... but we get paid for the value, not the time.”
More on Enjoyment
“When you make the present moment, instead of past and future, the focal point of your life, your ability to enjoy what you do and with it the quality of your life increases dramatically.”
“Cowards suffer, heroes enjoy.”
“Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless life misses nothing, for it is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world.”