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Letter "L" » livelihood
«There is no easy formula for determining right and wrong livelihood, but it is essential to keep the question alive. To return the sense of dignity and honor to manhood, we have to stop pretending that we can make a living at something that is trivial or destructive and still have sense of legitimate self-worth. A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.»
Author: Sam Keen
(motivational speaker, Philosopher, Spiritual mentor, Writer)
| Keywords:
cost of living, determining, devoid, devoid of, emptying, formula, gradually, legitimate, livelihood, pocketbook, pretending, right and wrong, Right to return, sense of right and wrong, separated, trivial, vocation
«The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
livelihood, pronounce, pronouncing, The Source, The Verdict, verdict, verdicts
«Jesus did. I was hopping along, when suddenly he comes and cures me. One minute I'm a leper with a trade, next moment me livelihood's gone. Not so much as a by your leave. Look. I'm not saying that being a leper was a bowl of cherries. But it was a living. I mean, you try waving muscular suntanned limbs in people's faces demanding compassion. It's a bloody disaster.»
«And the back of his anorak was leaping up and down, and people were chucking money to him. I said 'Do you earn a living doing that?' He said 'Yes, this my livelihood.'»
«Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Marriage,
Men and Women,
Women
| Keywords:
amount, commonest, endured, livelihood, marriage, mode, probably, prostitution, total, undesired
«The stages of the Noble Path are: Right View, Right Thought, Right Speech, Right Behavior, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness and Right Concentration.»
Author: Buddha
| Keywords:
behavior, concentration, effort, livelihood, mindfulness, noble, path, right, speech, staged, stages, thought, view, view as
«To support mother and father, to cherish wife and child and to have a simple livelihood; this is the good luck.»
«Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
act on, clear, livelihood, stage, The Stage
«Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.»
Author: Norman Vincent Peale
(Clergyman, Writer)
| Keywords:
ageism, arbitrarily, drives, elderly, livelihood, odious, overburden, overburdened, productive, racism, retirement, scars, security system, sever, severed, severing, severs, sexism, Social Security, social system, social systems, squandered, squandering, squanders, strains
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