I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.
Annie DillardTags: passion calling necessity vocation
There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence of a gift. It is the nature of fiction not to be good for much unless it is good in itself.
Flannery O'ConnorTags: talent art writing vocation on-fiction fiction value
Is that what they call a vocation, what you do with joy as if you had fire in your heart, the devil in your body?
Tags: vocation
Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already possess. Vocation does not come from a voice out there calling me to be something I am not. It comes from a voice in here calling me to be the person I was born to be, to fulfill the original selfhood given me at birth by God.
Thomas MertonTags: vocation
We are not called upon to do all the good that is possible, but only that which we can do.
Theodore GuerinTags: inspirational service vocation
It's hard luck always having to be a judge.
Antoine de Saint-ExupéryYou owe it to all of us to get on with what you're good at.
W.H. AudenTags: vocation
Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.
Ralph Waldo EmersonOnly those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynTags: vocation career corporate
Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.
Parker J. PalmerTags: life vocation being life-plan
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