In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it… a sure sense that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

About John Ruskin

John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was an English polymath – a writer, lecturer, art historian, art critic, draughtsman and philanthropist of the Victorian era. He wrote on subjects as varied as art, architecture, political economy, education, museology, geology, botany, ornithology, literature, history, and myth.

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There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey.

—John Ruskin

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Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.

—John Ruskin

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Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

—John Ruskin

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Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.

—John Ruskin

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There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey.

—John Ruskin

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So many gods, so many creeds, / so many paths that wind and wind, / While just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

—Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

—Erich Fromm

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There is always the need to carry on.

—Marjory Stoneman Douglas

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Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need.

—Tom Robbins

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You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your abundance.

—Kahlil Gibran

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History

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Previous wording

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it . . . a sure sense that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.