Robert K. Greenleaf Quotes

Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.

The relationship between reader and writer is reciprocal in a way. We co-create each other. We are constantly emerging out of the relationship we have with others.

I don't have much in life but my work is what makes me alive.

I feel most alive when I'm surrounded by family and friends, and when I am working.

You're my existence. I'm yours

If you are what you do, then when you don't, you aren't.

A little reciprocity goes a long way.

if the world changed, i could not exist, and if i changed, the world could not exist

Happiness doesn't come from getting what you want. It doesn't come from within, either. Happiness comes from *between*--from finding the right relationship between yourself and others, between yourself and your work, and between yourself and something larger than yourself.

The sky is so close to the sea that it is difficult to tell which is reflected in the other, which one needs the other, which one is dominating the other.

Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.

Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.

And whether or not we had now paid our dues, he was my blessing, and I was his.

I wondered what it does to each of us to spend the majority of our waking hours doings things we'd rather not do, wishing we were outside or simply elsewhere, wishing we were reading, thinking, making love, fishing, sleeping, or simply having time to figure out who the hell we are and what the hell we're doing.

Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men that comes chiefly through their work.

Every man knows that his highest purpose in life cannot be reduced to any particular relationship. If a man prioritizes his relationship over his highest purpose, he weakens himself, disserves the universe, and cheats his woman of an authentic man who can offer his full, undivided presence.

In a perfect union the man and woman are like a strung bow. Who is to say whether the string bends the bow, or the bow tightens the string?

Just as you cannot receive without giving, so neither can you give without receiving.

For every giver there must be a receiver, and for every receiver there must be a giver.

My newspaper job … is my identity.

Friendship is a give and take. You have to have a strong relationship with your friend and I think you have to offer them something and they have to offer you something and that’s to always learn from it.

We're all inseparably part of each other. We all coexist in each other.

Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.

At first glance, the key and the lock it fits may seem very different," Sazed said. "Different in shape, different in function, different in design. The man who looks at them without knowledge of their true nature might think them opposites, for one is meant to open, and the other to keep closed. Yet, upon closer examination he might see that without one, the other becomes useless. The wise man then sees that both lock and key were created for the same purpose.

Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about.