Saving the world was merely a hobby. My *vocation* has been that of inspector of desert water holes. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“the struggle is not with others, but within us, to do what we are called to do” — john j geddes Copy Share Image
“A vocation is a never-ending mission. In other words, a refined way of avoiding the unknown.” — Andrés Neuman Copy Share Image
Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul. — William Osler Copy Share Image
I'm beat to the square, and square to the beat, and that's my vocation. — William Everson Copy Share Image
Farming -- a vocation accursed of heaven, since one never saw a millionaire involved in it. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
It's a pity more men are not bastards by birth instead of vocation. — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
I think teaching should be a vocation, and they should be paid more for it. — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
I had the vocation for politics. What I didn't have was any aptitude for political combat. I took the attacks personally, which… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Our universities should produce good criticism; they do not or, at best, they do so only as federal prisons produce counterfeit money:… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“Making money isn't hard in itself,' he complained. 'What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Everybody has a vocation to some form of life-work. However, behind that call (and deeper than any call), everybody has a vocation… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us today... ...some of us who have already begun to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind's desolate hopes,… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
The truth is I would do my job for free! I love it every day. If you can possibly choose a vocation… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right. If what comes out of it are stories, then… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
In a medical sense I'm a prophet. But I'm not unique. I mean there are many prophets in many different vocations. I… — Charles Teo Copy Share Image
Faith lived in the incognito is one which is located outside the criticism coming from society , from politics , from history… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
“It is no accident, Ma, that the comma resembles a fetus— that curve of continuation. We were all once inside our mothers,… — Ocean Vuong Copy Share Image
“The right question is whether, when we undertake the work we believe to be our vocation, we experience the joy and humility… — Andy Crouch Copy Share Image
Every historian loves the past or should do. If not, he has mistaken his vocation; but it is a short step from… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
“1877. The vocation of humanity is to show forth the image of God and to be transformed into the image of the… — Catholic Church Copy Share Image
“But yield who will their separation, My object in living is to unite My avocation and my vocation As my two eyes… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
For all the sublimity of art, physics, music, mathematics, and other manifestations of human genius, everything depends on the mundane, frustrating, often… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Latin America can no longer tolerate being a haven for United States liberals who cannot make their point at home, an outlet… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too. No, I think there… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
Vocation does not come from willfulness. It comes from listening. I must listen to my life and try to understand what it… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
“Calling resists privatization by insisting on the totality of faith. Calling resists politicization by demanding a tension with every human allegiance and… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
“Crossing the threshold of faith means that we work out of a sense of dignity and see service as a vocation. It… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“The two men sat silent for a little, and then Lord Peter said: "D'you like your job?" The detective considered the question,… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The priestly vocation is essentially a call to sanctity, in the form that derives from the Sacrament of Holy Orders. Sanctity is… — Pope John Paul I Copy Share Image
I am not fully informed of the practices at Harvard, but there is one from which we shall certainly vary, although it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
