Celebrating Labor Day: Wishes and Reflections

No early wake-ups or rushed coffee. With schools and offices closed on May 1st, Labor Day presents the perfect opportunity to wish friends and family a happy holiday over a leisurely breakfast. A kind good morning message can change the day for both the sender and the recipient. So here are some tips for wishing all workers and job seekers well. Mattarella: Work is freedom Funny Wishes - Even if today your only job seems to be sending out resumes... Happy May 1st! - Work in Italy is a bit like fairy tales: 'Once upon a time' - May Day is the workers' holiday, so it doesn't concern you: you have another 364 days to celebrate! Happy May 1st! - What are you doing on the first of May? - Waiting for the twenty-seventh of the month Spontaneous Wishes - The only way to have a good job is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Happy May 1st! - Happy May 1st! I wish you to find a job that you love. Wishes with Author Quotes - Every individual has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment (Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948) - Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life (Confucius) - The man who is ashamed of his work cannot have respect for himself (Bertrand Russell) - Life has two precious gifts: beauty and truth. I found the first in the heart of those who love and the second in the hand of those who labor (Khalil Gibran) - There must be no poor and there is no worse poverty than that which prevents us from earning our bread, which deprives us of the dignity of work (Pope Francis) - Happy is the man who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness (Thomas Carlyle) - Work is no more respectable than intoxication, and it serves exactly the same purpose: it simply distracts the mind (Aldous Huxley) - Work is a blessing when it helps us to think about what we are doing. But it becomes a curse the moment its only utility consists in preventing us from reflecting on the meaning of life (Paulo Coelho) - The purpose of work is to earn leisure (Aristotle) - The best antidote to pain is work (Arthur Conan Doyle) - I believe in the Italian people. It is a generous, hardworking people, who only ask for work, a home, and to be able to take care of the health of their loved ones. They do not ask for heaven on earth. They ask for what every people should have (Sandro Pertini, end-of-year message to Italians, 1981) - I don't like work – no one does – but I like what is in the work: the possibility of finding oneself. One's own reality – for oneself, not for others – what no other person can ever know (Joseph Conrad) - You have always been told that work is a curse and labor a misfortune. But I say to you that when you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born. And in holding yourself with labor you truly love life, and to love life through labor is to be intimate with life's inmost secret (Kahlil Gibran) - After all, work is still the best way of passing the time (Gustave Flaubert) - Italy is a Republic founded on internships (Beppe Severgnini) - You have achieved success in your field when you don't know if what you're doing is work or play (Warren Beatty) - Work keeps us from three great evils: boredom, vice, and need (Voltaire) - The most important thing in life is the choice of work, and it is entrusted to chance (Blaise Pascal) - There are two fortunate categories of people: those who have found their work and those who do not need to find one (Giovanni Soriano) - Work ennobles man and enriches someone else (Michelangelo Cammarata) - I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours (Jerome K. Jerome) - Find a job you like and you'll have five more days each week (H. Jackson Brown Jr) - The secret to enjoying your work is to have a hobby that's even worse (Bill Watterson) - Pray as if everything depended on God. Work as if everything depended on you (Saint Augustine) - He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist (Saint Francis of Assisi) - The worst profession is to have none (C. Cantù) - A society founded on work dreams only of rest (Leo Longanesi) - Slowly dies he who does not overturn the table, who is unhappy at work, who does not risk certainty for uncertainty to pursue a dream, who does not allow himself at least once in life to flee sensible advice (Pablo Neruda) Wishes with Photos Cartoons, memes, images are sometimes more effective than phrases and words and are forwarded more easily.