“The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure is occupation.”
George Bernard Shaw
“[But that was how it was in a workaday Britain generally addicted to merit, rather than one increasingly enslaved to notions of entitlement. In the deepest part of themselves, all classes now are devoted to leisure, as if proper and difficult occupation has become one of the enemies of modern selfhood.] The secret of being miserable, ... is to have leisure to bother whether you are happy or not.”
“Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.”
William Lyon Phelps
“Alas few socialists are either benevolent enough to work hard at these occupations out of benevolence or self-interested enough to work hard at them for money.”
John McCarthy
“It is neither wealth nor splendorĶ¾ but tranquillity and occupation which give happiness.”
Contributed by: Maria Green
Thomas Jefferson
“Doing what you want to do is life.”
Contributed by: Maya Elhalal
Wallace D. Wattles
“Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich.”
Benjamin Franklin
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