Quotes About Labors Of Love

#1. I guess what I want to say to us artists and entrepreneurs is that conventional yardsticks of success don't apply to all enterprises. Labors of love count.

Steven Pressfield

#2. [..] a culture committed to bleeding the humanities to death, along with any other labors of love that don't serve the god of capital: the spectacle of someone who likes her pointless, pervers work and gets paid - even paid well - for it.

Maggie Nelson

#3. The very longing for contentment that ought to drive us to simplicity of life and labors of love contents itself instead with the broken cisterns of prosperity and comfort.

John Piper

#4. I love all of my books. They were labors of love; I was striving to create something well done, and I do feel I succeeded.

Lynn Flewelling

#5. If your home is a ministry, shouldn't that ministry become a passion? Shouldn't your feelings and emotions be involved when it comes to the people and place you love? And shouldn't your work be done passionately? Your labors should be labors of love!

Elizabeth George

#6. I get called to do a lot of labors of love ... independent films on very small budgets. If I have the time and if the project speaks to me, it's better than sitting around, right?

George Wendt

#7. I never work from an outline, and often I don't know how the story will end.

Patricia MacLachlan

#8. By being receptive, we can avail ourselves of the spiritual wealth available to us. By being open, we can receive things beyond what we ourselves might imagine.

Ming-Dao Deng

#9. There [is] no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#10. Everything you have contact with will be woven into your garden

Kathy Stinson

#11. Synchronicity: A meaningful coincidence of two or more events where something other than the probability of chance is involved.

Carl Jung

#12. Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

Barbara Jordan

#13. He has the valuable quality of being fond of people without wanting to turn them inside out.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#14. There is a hierarchy of deceptions. Near the bottom of the ladder is journalism: a steady stream of irresponsible distortions that most people find refreshing although on the morning after, or at least within a week, it will be stale and flat.

Martin Buber

#15. We are the desert winter's breath, cold and hopeless

Paul Pedroza

#16. Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.

Aberjhani

#17. Whatever made me the way I am left me hollow, empty inside, unable to feel. It doesn't seem like a big deal. I'm quite sure most people fake an awful lot of everyday human contact. I just fake it all. I fake it very well, and the feelings are never there.

Jeff Lindsay

#18. You are beautiful," he said, "But I will have to leave you.

Milan Kundera

#19. Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things.

Thomas A Kempis

#20. It was a prom dress.It was pink.It was originally seventy percent off,but Ma got it down to eighty-five percent off by screaming "My water broke!" while we were checking out

Laurie Halse Anderson

#21. Dhoni backs players as well. People like (Suresh) Raina, (Ravindra) Jadeja, and Rohit Sharma have developed under him as players and has some terrific qualities as a leader.

Sourav Ganguly

#22. Now is when we can stop pretending to be normal.

E. Lockhart

#23. True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.

Harriet Beecher Stowe