Sarah Palin  - Quotes

 Well, let's see. There's 

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Ralph Waldo Emerson  - Quotes

 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. 

Tags: career   vocation   work     
J.R.R. Tolkien  - Quotes

 A great dread fell on him, as if he was awaiting the pronouncement of some doom that he had long foreseen and vainly hoped might after all never be spoken. An overwhelming longing to rest and remain at peace by Bilbo's side in Rivendell filled all his heart. At last with an effort he spoke, and wondered to hear his own words, as if some other will was using his small voice.

 

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Annie Dillard  - Quotes

 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. 

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Theodore Guerin  - Quotes

 We are not called upon to do all the good that is possible, but only that which we can do. 

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Josephine Baker  - Quotes

 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?

 

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W.H. Auden  - Quotes

 You owe it to us all to get on with what you're good at. 

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Aeschylus  - Quotes

 Oh, the torment bred in the race,

the grinding scream of death

and the stroke that hits the vein,

the hemorrhage none can staunch, the grief,

the curse no man can bear.



But there is a cure in the house, and not outside it, no,

not from others but from them,

their bloody strife. We sing to you,

dark gods beneath the earth.



Now hear, you blissful powers underground --

answer the call, send help.

Bless the children, give them triumph now.
 

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Thomas Merton  - Quotes

 tion 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  

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