Love & Work

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
--Kahlil Gibran

Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.
--Sigmund Freud

Don't sacrifice your life to work and ideals. The most important things in life are human relations. I found that out too late.
--Katharinde Susannah Prichard

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction. Fear secretes acids, but love and trust are sweet juices.
--Beecher

For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof; the work for which all other work is but preparation.
--Rainer Maria Rilke

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.
--Merle Shain

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
--Pearl Bailey

Real love takes work. You have to be willing to make the effort."
--Rabbi Weinberg

One must sow love to reap love. But only by daily cultivation will the harvest be abundant.
--Author Unknown

The ranch is work from sun to sun, but love's work is never done.
--from Just One Fool Thing After Another

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.
--Thomas Edison

It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.
--Philip Green

Just as a man is fulfilled through working out the intricate details of solving a problem, a woman is fulfilled through talking about the details of her problems.
--John Gray

All things need watching, working at, caring for and marriage is no exception. Marriage is not something to be treated indifferently, or abused or something that simply takes care of itself. Nothing neglected will remain as it was or is, or will fail to deteriorate. All things need attention care and concern and especially so in this most sensitive of all relationships of life.
--Richard L. Evans

Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.
--Anthony Robbins

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
--John Ruskin

If you're in a relationship and you want to make it work, you have to be a little selfless at times.
--Montel Williams

Many people believe that they understand the cliche, "love takes work." The question is, do they truly understand the meaning of "love takes work"? You will know that you are working at your relationship when you want to run away in frustration, but you stay and talk with your partner -- not just once, but repeatedly.
--Paul Mauchline