Love + Work Quotes

“In this sense, the true purpose of your work is to help you discover that which you love: work is for love. And the purpose of love is to help you learn where and how you can contribute: love is for work.”
― Marcus Buckingham, Love + Work: How to Find What You Love, Love What You Do, and Do It for the Rest of Your Life

“Community activism is work. Sharing your faith is work. Anything of value you offer to others is your work. Your life, lived fully, is the search for the strongest possible connection between what you feel—your loves—and what you give to others—your work.”
― Marcus Buckingham, Love + Work: How to Find What You Love, Love What You Do, and Do It for the Rest of Your Life

“So, in truth, you won’t just get lost. You’ll get hidden—and by the very institutions that are supposed to reveal you. Little wonder we’re facing such an epidemic of lost people.”
― Marcus Buckingham, Love + Work: How to Find What You Love, Love What You Do, and Do It for the Rest of Your Life

“In the worst extremes of always-on, high-stress jobs, such as distribution centers, emergency room nursing, and teaching, incidences of PTSD are higher than they are for veterans returning from war zones. Imagine that. We’ve created work conditions that are so blind to the needs of each human being that they wind up experiencing more soul-destroying distress than soldiers who’ve witnessed the killing and harming of other human beings.”
― Marcus Buckingham, Love + Work: How to Find What You Love, Love What You Do, and Do It for the Rest of Your Life

“And really there’s no space between the two. Some will tell you not to bring your personal feelings—your loves—to work. The data, however, reveals that the causal arrow pointing the other way is just as strong. How you feel at work—whether your work is uplifting or soul-destroying, whether it fulfills you or empties you out, whether it makes you feel valued or utterly useless—all of it will be experienced most keenly at home, by you and the ones you love.”
― Marcus Buckingham, Love + Work: How to Find What You Love, Love What You Do, and Do It for the Rest of Your Life

“But identify them, honor them, and let them flow into contribution, and you will become the biggest and most powerful version of you.”
― Marcus Buckingham, Love + Work: How to Find What You Love, Love What You Do, and Do It for the Rest of Your Life

“When was the last time … … you lost track of time? … you instinctively volunteered for something? … someone had to tear you away from what you were doing? … you felt completely in control of what you were doing? … you surprised yourself by how well you did? … you were singled out for praise? … you were the only person to notice something?”
― Marcus Buckingham, Love + Work: How to Find What You Love, Love What You Do, and Do It for the Rest of Your Life