Zora Neale Hurston Quotes

When you have balance in your life, work becomes an entirely different experience. There is a passion that moves you to a whole new level of fulfillment and gratitude, and that's when you can do your best... for yourself and for others.

Work as joy, inaccessible to the psychologists.

The only thing that can bring joy is work.

I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your very being, and seems to make the day's work like a happy child at play.

Work is often the father of pleasure.

The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty bothers.

I'm content because I'm a busy person.

I do have big ambitions, but I think we all do. I just want to keep working hard and being happy.

The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe.

That man is never happy for the present is so true, that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little while. Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

She did not believe that things could remain the same in different places, and since the portion of her life that lay behind her had been bad, no doubt that which remained to be lived would be better.

We're all seeking...the rapture of being alive.

Happiness is a hound dog in the sun. We aren't on Earth to be happy, but to experience incredible things. - Hannah Schneider

The purpose of life afterall is to live it.

Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness.

The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.

I cannot face with comfort the idea of life without work; work and the free play of the imagination are for me the same thing, I take no pleasure in anything else.

I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation. These I shall have.

The joy of life is variety.

Life is what you put into it and how much you take out of it. You put in more than is expected, and you take out less than you want.

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Sometimes in our lives we all have pain. We all have sorrow. But if we are wise we know that there's always tomorrow.

The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.

There is no truer and more abiding happiness than the knowledge that one is free to go on doing, day by day, the best work one can do, ... , and that this work is absorbed by a steady market and thus supports one's own life ... Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

You must work and should not be lazy if you want to be happy.