Ah, why should life all labor be?

When you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born. And in keeping yourself with…

— Kahlil Gibran

The life of labor does not make men, but drudges.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To love life through our labor is to be intimate with life's inmost secrets.

— Khalil Gibran

Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back to romantic.

— Ray Bradbury

Ah, why Should life all labour be?

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“The old me is younger than the me now. Ah, but that’s life, no?”

— Jarod Kintz

“For we've reached a point where we regard real "living life" almost as labor, almost as service, and we all agree in ourselves that…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.

— Anonymous

Life is a labor pain; we are here to give birth to ourself.

— Bernie Siegel

In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars.

— George Washington

For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble…

— H. L. Mencken

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

— Albert Einstein

In an economy increasingly dominated by network effects, peer-to-peer transactions, self-regulation, and contract labor, the old frameworks are woefully irrelevant.

— Anand Giridharadas

Maryland will always have the backs of working people and organized labor.

— Wes Moore

Less than 8 percent of private sector workers belonged to a union in 2004, and, overall, only 12.5 percent of American workers carry a…

— Linda Chavez