Quotes about Vocation

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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. Palmer, Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
There is something in the depths of our being that hungers for wholeness and finality. Because we are made for eternal l — Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island
He does not call those who are worthy, but those whom He will. — "Therese of Lisieux
Oh, the torment bred in the race, the grinding scream of deathand the stroke that hits the vein,the hemorrhage none can — Aeschylus, The Oresteia Trilogy: Agamemnon/The Libation-Bearers/The Furies
The job of feets is walking, but their hobby is dancing. — Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
If I could sum up my poetry in a few well-chosen words, the result might be a poem. Several years ago, when I was asked — Anthony Thwaite
There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence — Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
In the eyes of others a man is a poet if he has written one good poem. In his own he is only a poet at the moment when h — W.H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand
Who is willing to be satisfied with a job that expresses all his limitations? He will accept such work only as a 'means — Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island
Do not give in to the provocation of the devil — Sunday Adelaja
You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too. No, I think there was too — Anaïs Nin
I never heard that it had been anybody’s business to find out what his natural bent was, or where his failings lay, or t — Charles Dickens, Bleak House
Here is a truth that most teachers will not tell you, even if they know it: Good training is a continual friend and a so — Richard Mitchell, The Gift of Fire
...young people know very little about themselves and their abilities. When the day comes on which they discover their r — Hugo Munsterberg, Psychology and Industrial Efficiency
At his funeral the priest's words applied signally to him: 'The Christian Brothers are a body of men who live without lu — Edmund Campion, Great Australian Catholics
Education at a deep level means to ‘lead out’ what is trying to be born from within. The job of a true teacher is to hel — Michael Meade, The Genius Myth
The real education is when you awaken and nourish and guide the inner spirit, this inner genius. The community grows fro — Michael Meade
A great dread fell on him, as if he was awaiting the pronouncement of some doom that he had long foreseen and vainly hop — J.R.R. Tolkien
The horizon changes but the sun does not. — Joyce Rachelle
Sort of' is such a harmless thing to say... sort of. It's just a filler. Sort of... it doesn't really mean anything. But — Demetri Martin