#work

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#capitalism #dishonest #hierarchy #honest #labor

So I got a new job, and I start tomorrow. I’m excited to have a job, and bummed out I’m going to be working. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #humor #job #working #funny

I'm a heart surgeon, sure, but I'm just a mechanic. I go in and I fuck around and I fix things. Shit. ↗

— Raymond Carver

#fix #heart #love #mechanic #swearing

Love turns work into rest. ↗

— Teresa of Ávila

#rest #work #love

The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#magnus-bane #the-infernal-devices #magnus-bane

She was a published writer. I imagined how thrilling it must be living such a life, going around the world and making up things about it. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#work #imagination

I've heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance? ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#laziness #sloth #work #humor

Everybody has something, that one thing they must do to feel happy. I think this is yours, and I want you to be happy. You don’t have to do it, but it’s here if you choose to come back to it. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#happiness #happy #job #something #work

Discipline allows magic. To be a writer is to be the very best of assassins. You do not sit down and write every day to force the Muse to show up. You get into the habit of writing every day so that when she shows up, you have the maximum chance of catching her, bashing her on the head, and squeezing every last drop out of that bitch. ↗

— Lili St. Crow

#funny-as-hell #funny-quotes #funny-stuff #humor #humor-work

I have lost everything. Lost everything. Everything. - William Herondale ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-angel #william-herondale #will-herondale