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Biography - Confucius:

Chinese teacher, editor, politician and philosopher.
Born: -551 - Died: -479
Period:
5th century BC
6th century BC
Place of birth: China
China

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.



Translation

Translation

(German, French)



German
Wähle einen Beruf, den Du liebst, und Du brauchst keinen Tag in Deinem Leben mehr zu arbeiten.

French
Choisis un travail que tu aimes et tu n’auras pas à travailler un seul jour de ta vie.




See also 

See also...



Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

It is the fool's misfortune to fail in obtaining the position, the employment, the neighbourhood, and the circle of friends that suit him.




Quotes for: work


Quotes

Quotes about work:


My work is a game, a very serious game.





The best work is not what is most difficult for you it is what you do best.





It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.





Sowing is not so hard as reaping.





Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.





The fruits of labor are the sweetest of all pleasures.











Quotes for: to choose


Quotes

Quotes for: to choose


To choose, and therefore exclude.





The kind of philosophy one chooses thus depends on the kind of person one is.





In one sense choice is possible, but what is not possible is not to choose. I can always choose, but I must know that if I do not choose, that is still a choice.





There is no sense in life a priori. Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the value of it is nothing else but the sense that you choose.





To choose life, is to always choose the future.





Necessity delivers us from the embarrassment of choice.











Quotes

Confucius also said...


Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.





Never impose on others what you would not choose for yourself.





Demand much from yourself, little from others, and you will prevent discontent.





The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.





They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.





The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.












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