Desire Quote by Robert Grudin

“The obverse of this freedom, of course, is that your work is so meaningless, so fully for yourself alone, and so worthless to the…

— Annie Dillard

The aspirations of most people--security, pleasure, leisure, meaningful work, creative and intellectual pursuits--are to be supported. These desires and dreams are not shameful. In…

— Irena Klepfisz

“A hallmark of virtuous adulthood is learning to find freedom in your work rather than freedom from your work, even when work might hurt.”

— Ben Sasse

“ Work does not “give” dignity to our lives through the excellence or happiness it fosters. The dignity of work comes less from its…

— Russell Muirhead

“By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“True freedom is moving beyond all clinging and attachments, whether mystical or mundane. It is not a moving beyond enjoyment of either, just releasing…

— Bonnie L. Greenwell

“And "sharing the work of survival," therefore, means resisting every temptation towards independence, towards personal liberty, towards "doing your own thing". This takes s…

— Walter Wangerin Jr

“in against their will, or that it’s something that necessarily pulls us away from the people and activities we really care about. But work…

— Todd Henry

“The end toward which mankind is inexorably developing by the constant overcoming of internal antagonisms is not the enjoyment, ownership, or use of goods,…

— C.L.R. James

“Freedom is formed by achieving your true desires.”

— Steven Redhead

Work without interest is imprisonment. Even if you aren't super-passionate about your work, you've got to at least be interested in it. When you…

— Melchor Lim

“when we have no memory or little imagination of an alternative to a life centered on work, there are few incentives to reflect on…

— Kathi Weeks