Rajneesh Quotes

I've always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I've had less than one day a year off in my working career.

I have always been a workaholic.

To me, the word 'workaholic' is a negative word.

I am a workaholic. I like to work, work, work.

Work is an addiction. I've always done too much. It's in my nature.

If I ever stop working, I might have a problem. But I never seem to be able to stop working.

We live in a world where the more you're working, the more things you do. It's a workaday world.

Most men spend the best part of their lives making the remaining part wretched.

Work is a dull thing; you cannot get away from that. The only agreeable existence is one of idleness, and that is not, unfortunately, always compatible with continuing to exist at all.

I'm a grinder....I've never taken more than a week off in my adult life. I truly believe work is a virtue, it gives you purpose.

No work is stressful. It is your inability to manage your body, mind, and emotions that makes it stressful.

Life figures itself to me as a festal or funereal procession.

There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself.

The world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things.

He knows that it is impossible to live in a state of complete relaxation.

I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of WORK, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in the organised diminution of work.

I don't know when the cult of conspicuous busyness began, but it has swept up almost all the upwardly mobile, professional women I know. Already, it is getting hard to recall the days when, for example, 'Let's have lunch' meant something other than 'I've got more important things to do than talk to you right now.

Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.

I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous, and that what needs to be preached in modern industrial countries is quite different from what always has been preached.

I like birthdays. Every time someone is born, that's just like bringing more cake into the world.

We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.

Love doesn't limit itself to relationships: it is a celebration of life.

Everybody in the world is seeking happiness - and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn't depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.