Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
Robert Louis StevensonRead
When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.
Interpretation
Finding joy in your work brings you more than just financial rewards; it enriches your life overall.
This quote emphasizes the idea that when you engage in work that you enjoy, you gain much more than just monetary compensation. The toil becomes a source of health, happiness, and moral satisfaction, suggesting that fulfillment in work can lead to a well-rounded and prosperous life.
In practice
An architect might use this quote when presenting their design philosophy.
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
His past was fairly blameless; few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension; yet he was humbled to the dust by the many ill things he had done, and raised up again into sober and fearful gratitude by the many he had come so near to doing, yet avoided.
The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
It is the history of our kindnesses that alone make this world tolerable. If it were not for that, for the effect of kind words, kind looks, kind letters . . . I should be inclined to think our life a practical jest in the worst possible spirit.
Wholeheartedness. There are many tenets of Wholeheartedness, but at its very core is vulnerability and worthiness; facing uncertainty, exposure, and emotional risks, and knowing that I am enough.
If I start giving people what they like I'll turn into one of them and I don't want to be one of them I want to be one of me.
He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.
You're betraying your whole life if you don't say what you think - and you don't say it honestly and bluntly.
In all this world there is no substitute for personal integrity. It includes honor. It includes performance. It includes keeping one's word. It includes doing what is right regardless of the circumstances
Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.
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