Russell Muirhead Quotes

Work Does Not "give" Dignity To Our Lives Through The Excellence Or Happiness It Fosters. The Dignity Of Work Comes Less From Its Ideal Promise Than From The Way We Show, Through It, A Determination To Endure What Is Difficult For The Sake Of Discharging Our Responsibilities And Contributing To Society. It Is Less The Source Of Our Happiness Than The Illustration That We Deserve Happiness. Through Work We Reveal Our Tough Minded Commitment In The Face Of Conditions That Cannot Bend Exactly To Our Will. When This Commitment Brings A Partial Triumph Over An Unaccommodating World, Work Illuminates Something Of The Dignity That Resides In Us Independent Of The Character Of Our Work. It Expresses A Kind Of Defiance, For We Willfully Ignore The Ultimate Resistance Of A World We Yet Try To Shape. Thus Work Reveals, Though It Cannot Produce, The Dignity Of Those Who Take Their Condition To Be At Least Partly Of Their Own Making.

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