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 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
“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
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
Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman 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
Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already… — Parker J. Palmer 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
Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. . . .… — James Bryant Conant 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
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
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
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
When you're young, your perception of what it means to be a writer is often less about the writing and more about… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
The Restless Anthropologist is a rich, powerful, and compulsively readable collection of essays by anthropologists who look back at the multiple relationships… — Sherry Ortner Copy Share Image
Men are born to write. The gardener saves every slip, and seed, and peach-stone: his vocation is to be a planter of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
