All work is empty save when there is love. Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. Most people spend most of their days doing what they do not want to do in order to earn the right, at times, to do what they may desire. I don't know anyone who wished on his deathbed that he had spent more time at the office. This too is vanity.
Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.
In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions. The newer people of this modern age are more eager to amass than to realize. Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves. You are in good company in this effort to carve out a more meaningful ife. When biblical writers, Gandhi, and Thoreau all support your principles, you are standing on high ground.