From Studs Terkel’s 1972 book Working:
Work is about daily meaning as well as daily bread. For recognition as well as cash; for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying. We have a right to ask of work that it include meaning, recognition, astonishment, and life.
That last line is worth repeating:
We have a right to ask of work that it include meaning, recognition, astonishment, and life.