The key to getting lots of strangers to work together is not to create an endless stream of new laws or institutions but to create a set of shared values. Laws are something you merely obey. Values are something you feel. --Edward Slingerland (in Trying Not To Try: Cultivating the Art of Spontaneity)

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. --Confucius (in An Illustrated Poster For People Who Love Their Work)

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood --Fred Rogers (in The Science of Play)

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. --Martin Luther King, Jr. (in A Humanitarian's 4 Decades Long Adventure In Africa)

The reason why things work is because of love. --Jeffrey Wright (in Mr. Wright's Law of Love)

The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place. --David Brower (in The New Farmers)

Don't do any task in order to get it over with. Resolve to do each job in a relaxed way, with all your attention. Enjoy and be one with your work. --Thich Nhat Hạnh (in Three Benefits To Mindfulness At Work)

If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together. --Lilla Watson (in How I Work To Protect Women From Honor Killings)

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. --Anonymous (in How to Run a Company with (Almost) No Rules)

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. --Confucius (in What Makes A Great Workplace?)

Without great solitude, no serious work is possible. --Picasso (in How To Resist Social Distractions)

These grassroots efforts are like a global immune system in that they are drawn to the wounded places and they begin to work. --Michael Lerner (in Michael Lerner: Whispers of a Wounded Healer)

As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way. --Mary Anne Radmacher (in The Prison Freedom Project: Transforming Lives Through Yoga)

Artists don't get down to work until the pain of working is exceeded by the pain of not working. --Stephen DeStaebler (in Body & Spirit: A Conversation with Sculptor Stephen DeStaebler)

Do what you love, and don't stop until you get what you love. Work as hard as you can. Imagine immensities. --Debbie Millman (in Fixed vs Growth: Two Mindsets that Shape Our Lives)

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work. --Mary Oliver (in How To Pay Attention)

We design human nature by designing the institutions within which people live and work. --Barry Schwartz (in The Way We Think About Work Is Broken)

I believe that working only from the conscious limits one's creativity -- whereas transcending consciousness can enhance the inner life of a work of art. --Denis Brown (in The Art of Sho: A Calligraphers's Pilgrimage)

Wholeness -- a state in which consciousness and the unconscious work together in harmony. --Daryl Sharp (in Seeking Wholeness)

For a long time I have known that our interior world is the soil in which the seeds of art take root. Without this seed in which the magic part of life is hidden, and from which a work of art can be born, there is no art, there is no music. --Thomas de Hartmann (in On Art & Mindfulness )

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art. --Leonardo da Vinci (in New Trail of Hope)

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. -- (in How Great Leaders Inspire Action)

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

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom. --Clarissa Pinkola Estes (in Where Will All the Stories Go?)

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. --Nelson Mandela (in What Do You Do When Someone Pushes You?)

Play is the work of the child. --Maria Montessori (in Barefoot Skateboarders of Janwar)

Artists strive to free this true and spontaneous self in their work. Creativity, meditation are ways of freeing an inner voice. --Gloria Steinem (in Singer Loses Voice and Finds Her Song)

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 Heal the World: Child Prodigy Cover)

When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.' --Lao Tzu (in Peak Performance: Lessons in Leadership from Mountain Guides)

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 Thu Nguyen: The Creative Act of Healing)

I avoid grandiose plans. I start with a small piece that I can do. I go to the root of the problem and then work around it. It's building brick by brick. --Muhammad Yunus (in Bringing Fresh Produce to the Underserved)

In the light of calm and steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles without effort on your part. --Nisagardatta Maharaj (in Are You Okay?: The Power of a Caring Question)

We need to repair the social fabric, without which all other solutions are patch work. --Nipun Mehta (in How To Give Away A Billion -- Or Not)

The root of all health is in the brain. The trunk of it is in emotion. The branches and leaves are the body. The flower of health blooms when all parts work together. --Kurdish saying (in The Science of Stress: Memories, Your Immune System and More)

Every noble life leaves its fibre interwoven forever in the work of the world. --John Ruskin (in The Age of We Need Each Other)

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work. --Mary Oliver (in Mind the Stream: Where Mindfulness and Technology Meet)

The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away. --David Viscott (in Seven Ways to Help High Schoolers Find Purpose)

If you have built castles in the air; your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. --Henry David Thoreau (in Re-inventing Work: An Interview with Matthew Fox)

Work on the body is very important to help people feel fully alive. Aside from telling their story they must reacquaint themselves with their body. Trauma isn't out there it is right in here. --Dr. Bessel van der Kolk (in Trauma in the Body: An Interview with Dr. Bessel van der Kolk)

When the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art. --Leonardo Da Vinci (in The Third Self: Mary Oliver on the Artist's Task)

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 Healing Civilization Nature's Way)

Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work; a future. --David Whyte (in Gathering as a Form of Leadership)

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

The bonsai is not you working on the tree; you have to have the tree work on you. --John Naka (in The Atomic Tree)

Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.
--John Muir (in Do You Remember Your Song)

I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies. --Ram Dass (in Be Love Now)

Solidarity involves commitment, and work, as well as the recognition that even if we do not have the same feelings, or the same lives, or the same bodies, we do live on common ground. --Sara Ahmed (in Going Into the Hospital: COVID 19 (Poem))

Without the playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. --Carl Jung (in Hidden Stories: Paintings by Diane Ding)

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. --Henri Frederic Amiel (in Advice from 100-Year-Olds)

This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play. --Alan Watts (in Kiran Khalap: Navigating Business, Creativity and Spirituality)