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• A lot of what passes for depression these days is nothing more than a body saying that it needs work. ~Geoffrey Norman
  
  
• I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor. ~D.H. Lawrence
  
  
• The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea. ~Isak Dinesen
  
  
• Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach. ~George Sheehan
  
  
• Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil. ~Henry van Dyke
  
  
• "I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want." ~Voltaire
  
  
• Boredom is a sickness the cure for which is work; pleasure is only a palliative. ~Le Duc de Lévis, Mémoires
  
  
• Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life. ~Marc Chagall
  
  
• It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. ~Charles Baudelaire
  
  
• When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired. ~Pablo Picasso
  
  
• The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb