Josh Billings Quotes

Work saves us from melancholy. Pleasure exposes us to it.

Work is always an antidote to depression.

Employment and hardships prevent melancholy.

The thing is, I really like working. If I sit around too much, I get really bad anxiety.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

When I'm not working on something, I seem to go through periods of depression. It helps to keep busy.

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

Often the best way to relax is just to go back to work.

Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.

I need to work to feel well.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

Work cures everything.

Work is my salvation. It changes my moods.

Work is therapy for the soul.

If I didn't have my profession, I think I would be sitting in a nuthouse. But I have been unceasingly at work, and this has been very healthy for me. So I had no need for therapy.

I'm either working or I'm lying in bed the entire day.

So much of unhappiness, it seems to me, is due to nerves; and bad nerves are the result of having nothing to do, or doing a thing badly, unsuccessfully or incompetently. Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do. True happiness comes to those who do their work well, followed by a refreshing period of rest. True happiness comes from the right amount of work for the day.

The opposite of play is not work—the opposite of play is depression.

There's nothing like work to take your mind off your worries.

Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished. 'm lucky to work in the most perfect of conditions. I can do what I want in all kinds of areas. The expenses are not expenses. I would be stupid to stop that. Work is making a living out of being bored.

Probably, if you are successful in this world you are stressed, and if you are a failure, you are bored!

You get depressed because you're like, 'Everybody's working and I'm here sitting.' I feel for all gymnasts who get hurt. Injuries are just awful, but at least I had 'Bones' to work on when I wasn't training. It got my mind off the fact that I couldn't do anything.

The opposite of play is not work. It's depression.

There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.