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Only those who take leisurely what the people of the world are busy about can be busy about what the people of the world take leisurely. -- Chang Chao
Let not to get a living be thy trade, but thy sport. -- Henry David Thoreau
I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply, not into the market, not into opinion, not into patronage. In every variety of human employment, in the mechanical and in the fine arts, in navigation, in farming, in legislating, there are among the numbers who do their task perfunctorily, as we say, or just to pass, and as badly as they dare, -- there are the working-men on whom the burden of the business falls, -- those who love work, and love to see it rightly done, who finish their task for its own sake ... -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. -- Guillaume Apollinaire

/misc | Jan 01, 2011