Work
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Run, rabbit, run
dig that hole
forget the sun
And when at last
the work is done
don't sit down
it's time to dig another one
—Pink Floyd
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Work ourselves,
fingers to the bone.
—Dave Matthews
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I put my heart and my soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.
—Vincent van Gogh
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You can’t eat for eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours a day—all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.
—William Faulkner
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What was I made for?
—Billie Eilish
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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
—Richard Bach
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If one is called to be a street sweeper, one should sweep streets as a Michaelangelo painted, or a Beethoven composed music, or a Shakespeare wrote poetry. One should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, "Here lived a great street sweeper who did their job well."
—Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Put your foot upon a path,
put your hand upon a plow.
—Gillian Welch
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Chop wood, carry water.
—Zen saying
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The days you work
are the best days.
—Georgia O'Keeffe
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How you do anything
is how you do everything.
—Zen saying
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Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who come alive.
—Howard Thurman
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Doing what you like is freedom.
Liking what you do is happiness.
—Frank Tyger
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Let the beauty we love
be what we do.
—Rumi
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