Community means strength that joins our strength to do the work that needs to be done. Arms to hold us when we falter. A circle of healing. A circle of friends. Someplace where we can be free. --Starhawk (in Building Communities from the Inside Out)

At the deepest level, the creative process and the healing process arise from a single source. When you are an artist, you are a healer; a wordless trust of the same mystery is the foundation of your work and its integrity. --Rachel Naomi Remen (in You Gotta Have Art)

A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves. --Lawrence G. Lovasik (in The Boy Who Gave It All Away)

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison? --Kahlil Gibran (in Redemptive Power of Music & Friendship)

Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe. --Gail Devers (in A Blind Painter's Inner Vision)

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 (in Measuring Success With A Smile)

Healing is not a matter of technique or mechanism; it is a work of spirit. --Rachel Naomi Remen (in The Paralyzed Yoga Instructor)

Trees outstrip most people in the extent and depth of their work for the public good. --Sara Ebenreck (in Africa's Great Green Wall)

The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes. --Harold B. Lee (in The Green Housing Boom)

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art. --Madonna Ciccone (in A Month Without Plastic)

The have-nots can be out of sight and even out of mind, but they breathe the same air, drink from the same scant supply of fresh water, and birth children who will grow up to work with our children to finish the job we've barely started; they will have to find a way for ALL of us to live well within the Earth's means. --Vicki Robin (in The Good Life For $5000 a Year)

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work. --Rita Mae Brown (in The Art of Creativity)

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars. --Henry Van Dyke (in Come Out And Play!)

At the deepest level, the creative process and the healing process arise from a single source. When you are an artist, you are a healer; a wordless trust of the same mystery is the foundation of your work and its integrity. --Rachel Naomi Remen (in Does Art Heal?)

Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. --Albert Einstein (in Voluntary Simplicity)

There is a difference between seeing and seeing ... The eyes of the spirit have to work in perpetual living connection with those of the body, for one otherwise risks seeing yet seeing past a thing. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (in Andre Agassi's Second Act)

If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. --Antoine de Saint-Exupery (in Homeless Men Dream of Odyssey At Sea)

We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is the same. --Carlos Castaneda (in 5 Steps To Happiness At Work)

When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home. --Betty Bender (in Seeking Jobs with Impact)

Play exists for its own sake. Play is for the moment; it is not hurried, even when the pace is fast and timing seems important. When we play, we also celebrate holy uselessness. Like the calf frolicking in the meadow, we need no pretense or excuses. Work is productive; play, in its disinterestedness and self-forgetting, can be fruitful. --Margaret Guenther (in The Fun Theory: Piano Stairs)

When we engage in what we are naturally suited to do, our work takes on the quality of play and it is play that stimulates creativity. --Linda Naiman (in The Surprising Science of Motivation)

I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness. --Mother Teresa (in 5 Ways to Start a Kindness Revolution at Work)

Retire from work, but not from life. --M.K. Soni (in The Encore Generation)

Our lives are a mixture of different roles. Most of us are doing the best we can to find whatever the right balance is. For me, that balance is family, work, and service. --Hillary Rodham Clinton (in Meet The Boss)

Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter, find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. --Albert Einstein (in Celebrating Earth Day in Tough Times)

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. --Emile Zola (in The Magic Flute)

Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe. --Gail Devers (in Athelete Defies All Odds)

My own experience about all the blessings I've had in my life is that the more I give away, the more that comes back. That is the way life works, and that is the way energy work. --Ken Blanchard (in Random Acts of Kindness Across the Country)

Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe. --Gail Devers (in Quadruple Amputee Swims Across English Channel)

To build toilets is easy, but to shift people's mind and hearts is the real work. Software is more important than hardware. --Ishwar Patel (in Over Ten Thousand People Attend His Funeral)

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work. --Rita Mae Brown (in Squeeze Out Your Creative Juices)

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form. --Stephen Nachmanovitch (in How the Ancient World Used Color)

Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Start with what they know; build with what they have. But with the best of leaders, when the work is done, the task accomplished, the people will say, we have done this ourselves. --Lao Tzu (in Third Way Leadership)

In every community there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart there is the power to do it. --Marianne Williamson (in A 15-Year-Old's Bucket List Goes Viral)

A work of art is a gift, not a commodity. Where there is no gift, there is no art. --Lewis Hyde (in The Artist Who Gives It All Away)

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. --Alexander Graham Bell (in How to Live a Single-Tasking Life)

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. --Steve Jobs (in Remembering Steve Jobs' Insights)

Each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And it's in the total of all those acts that the history of this generation will be written. --Robert Kennedy (in Inspiring a Life of Immersion)

In the final analysis, there is no other solution to a man's problems but the day's honest work, the day's honest decisions, the day's generous utterance, and the day's good deed. --Claire Booth Luce (in Honesty Paid Off For Dave)

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. --Arnold Toynbee (in A Guide to Finding Your Passion)

When you start loving what you are learning, it will no longer look like work. Everything will fall in place after that. Just fall in love. --A. K. Raha (in Competing with Love)

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. --Steve Jobs (in How To Find Your Purpose)

The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real. --Marge Piercy (in The Art of Motivating Employees)

When people go to work they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home. --Betty Bender (in Business Lessons from a Quiet Gardener)

There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither. --Alan Cohen (in Why We Stink At At Taking Breaks)

A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves. --Amelia Earhart (in The Ripple of One Small Act)

Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work. --William Arthur Ward (in Dolphin Murals: An Artist Turns Activist)

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. --Confucius (in Solving Gen Y's Passion Problem)

If you want to build a ship, dont drum up the people to collect wood and dont assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea --Antoine de Saint-Exupery (in The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us)

Let your intentions be good - embodied in good thoughts, cheerful words, and unselfish deeds - and the world will be to you a bright and happy place in which to work and play and serve. --Grenville Kleiser quotes (in See Good Intentions)