Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul. — William Osler 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
I'm beat to the square, and square to the beat, and that's my vocation. — William Everson Copy Share Image
No vocation on this side of heaven is as privileged or rewarding as Christian ministry — Joel Beeke Copy Share Image
“But you'll never become a rhinoceros, really you won't ... you haven't got the vocation!” — Eugène Ionesco 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
“You have to pay for this view (onto which he looks while writing), so our expenses keep us pretty motivated to write.… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
As long as our social order regards the good of institutions rather than the good of men, so long will there be… — Richard Roberts Copy Share Image
That is our vocation: to convert the enemy into a guest and to create the free and fearless space where brotherhood and… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is individuality which is the original and eternal within man; personality doesn't matter so much. To pursue the education and development… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The best convent for a woman is the seclusion of her own home. There she may find her vocation and fight her… — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share Image
I really feel like the first day I went to drama school and I went up on stage, that I found my… — Diane Kruger Copy Share Image
I consider poetry my vocation, not my "career." My career is as a university professor; that's what pays the bills. — Cate Marvin 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… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Finally, this is one way to reconcile the delight in beauty with the bourgeois life. Aschenbach, on one reading, has spent virtually… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
So, our vocation is to go, not just to one parish, not just to one diocese, but all over the world; and… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
I did a little theatre work after that and the following year I got another part in a television series. Then it… — Karl Urban Copy Share Image
Love is the only answer to every question. It is the only thing that will serve you in every situation. It is… — Rasheed Ogunlaru Copy Share Image
You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools… — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
Prayer is not one of the many things the community does. Rather, it is its very beingBut when prayer is no longer… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The creative impulse can be killed, but it cannot be taught. What a teacher can do... in working with children, is to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
There's a reason why trainspotters are not girls, there's a reason why there's the myth of the slightly autistic male genius, there's… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
In a culture of technique, we often confuse authority with power, but the two are not the same. Power works from the… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“The divine mandate to use the world justly and charitably, then, defines every person's moral predicament as that of a steward. But… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“...young people know very little about themselves and their abilities. When the day comes on which they discover their real strong points… — Hugo Munsterberg Copy Share Image
I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no… — Luis Bunuel Copy Share Image
“From the outset, Protestantism rejected the critical medieval distinction between the 'sacred' and 'secular' orders. While this position can easily be interpreted… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
“We often conceive of worldly life as merely a kind of default existence that anyone who is not specially called to monasticism… — Daniel G. Opperwall Copy Share Image
Saving the world was merely a hobby. My *vocation* has been that of inspector of desert water holes. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The universe expects every man to do his duty in his parallel of latitude. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Though it might have its momentary alarms, paternity is not an exciting vocation. — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Vocation is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.” — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
