"As soon as we identify ourselves with..." - Quote by Swami Vivekananda
As soon as we identify ourselves with the work we do, we feel miserable; but if we do not identify ourselves with it, we do not feel that misery.
More by Swami Vivekananda
“Know full well that patience is the best means of succeeds.”
“Compared to the coward that never made the attempt, he is a hero.”
“Freedom can never be true of name and form; it is the clay out of which we (the pots) are made; then it is limited and not free, so that freedom can never be true of the related. One pot can never say "I am free" as a pot; only as it loses all ideas of form does it become free.”
More on Detachment
“If you attach yourself to gross energies - loving this person, hating that clan, rejecting one experience or habitually indulging in another - then you will lead a series of heavy, attached lives. This can go on for a very long and tedious time.”
“Act without expectation.”
“The secret of a happy life lies in renunciation. Renunciation is life.”