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“You can’t ‘work through worry and fear rationally,’ because fear isn’t rational!

“There is nothing that a military machine can do to work a miracle.

“The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

“The ego mind both professes its desire for love and does everything possible to repel it, or if it gets here anyway, to sabotage it. That is why dealing with issues like control, anger, and neediness is the most important work in preparing ourselves for love.

“Love knows how to form itself. God will do his work if we do ours. Our job is to prepare ourselves for love. When we do, love finds us every time.

“In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.

“Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.

“If I went to work in a factory the first thing I’d do is join a union.

“I accrued anger from people’s low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.

“I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn’t want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.

“My goal was just to work regularly. I didn’t ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.

“I don’t do a huge amount of physical activity. I play tennis, I work out sporadically, and I eat well and take care of myself.

“I’ve done a lot of work to get where I’m at, but I have to keep working.

“I did work in a strip club, but I didn’t strip. I danced, and I became very popular.

“I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.

“Change is such hard work.

“Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

“There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.