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• I think now happiness is a thing you practice like music until you have skill in striking the right notes on time. We have no vocation for it. And I had no practice, not a day when I was free from care and one great anxiety - and one must be free to be happy. I know that much about it by having missed it.

  Corra May Harris

  Happiness, Thinking, Practice

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• The pursuit of excellence is the proper vocation of man.

  Cassius Jackson Keyser

  Men, Excellence, Pursuit

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• Tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Sin, Labor

  Ray Leslee, William Shakespeare, Kenneth Welsh (1998). “Standup Shakespeare”, p.11, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Pretty much at the age of 16, I realized acting wasn't going to be the vocation for me...too political not enough creative control. But I loved the craft and my father wanted me to get a college degree. Seemed natural to study what I loved and Marymount Manhattan has a wonderful theatre program, I highly recommend it! A lot of what I learned there I apply to my comicbook writing and pacing.

  Holly Golightly

  Father, Writing, College

  Source: hoopercomicart.blogspot.com

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• I consider poetry my vocation, not my "career." My career is as a university professor; that's what pays the bills.

  Cate Marvin

  University Professors, Careers, Pay

  Source: www.redividerjournal.org

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• I have called you by name, you are mine... you are precious in my sight.

  Isaiah

  Sight, Names, Mental Health

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• Most people spend far more time in preparation for their vocation than they do in preparation for marriage.

  Gary Chapman

  People, Preparation, More Time

  Gary Chapman (2010). “Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married”, p.10, Moody Publishers

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• Any time I think out loud, 'I can't believe this is my job,' and remember I am a very lucky duck. Whether marshalling hundreds of zombies, doing crazy stunts or shooting big music numbers, I just feel fortunate to have made my passion my vocation.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Jobs, Crazy, Believe

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• It's perfectly possible to spend forty hours a week on a job that's meaningless, as long as you know what your real vocation is and find some way to express it. Then you won't confuse your job with the meaning of your life.

  Sam Keen

  Jobs, Real, Long

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• To see a priest making his meditation before Mass does more for an altar boy's vocation than a thousand pieces of inspirational literature.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Boys, Meditation, Doe

  Fulton J. Sheen (2004). “The Priest Is Not His Own”, p.69, Ignatius Press

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• Here is a vocation that will bring you more satisfaction than if you became a millionaire ten times over: Develop the extraordinary skill for detecting the burdens of others and devote yourself daily to making them lighter.

  John Piper

  Skills, Satisfaction, Burden

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• To learn a vocation, you also have to learn the frauds it practices and the promises it breaks.

  Mason Cooley

  Practice, Broken, Promise

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• Marriage is the real vocation crisis in the United States... We have a vocation crisis to life-long, life-giving, loving, faithful marriage. If we take care of that one, we'll have all the priests and nuns we'll need for the Church.

  Timothy M. Dolan

  Real, Long, Giving

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• Prayer must not be our chance work but our daily business, our habit and vocation.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Chance, Habit

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.65, Discovery House

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• Sometimes nothing is so solid to me as writing - I suppose that's what a vocation means - at times a torment, a bad conscience, but all in all, purpose and direction.

  Robert Lowell

  Writing, Mean, Purpose

  Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell (2008). “Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell”

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• On the one hand I follow a vocation because I have an ability that I should exercise, but I want to use it for a reason, because I don't see that the freedoms that I enjoy are God-given realities. So I have a very healthy, activist general tension in me which feels that no, this is not gratuitous, it is important to keep this in focus.

  Wolfgang Tillmans

  Exercise, Reality, Hands

  "Wolfgang Tillmans: the lightness of being". Interview with Liz Jobey, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2010.

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• A vocation is the backbone of life.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Backbone, Life And Living

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• A vocation makes us unthinking; that is its greatest blessing. For it is a bulwark behind which we are permitted to withdraw whencommonplace doubts and cares assail us.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Blessing, Doubt, Care

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• Men are born to write. The gardener saves every slip, and seed, and peach-stone: his vocation is to be a planter of plants. Not less does the writer attend his affair. Whatever he beholds or experiences, comes to him as a model, and sits for its picture. He counts it all nonsense that they say, that some things are undescribable. He believes that all that can be thought can be written, first or last; and he would report the Holy Ghost, or attempt it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Writing, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Wallace E. Williams, Joseph Slater (1987). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men: seven lectures”, p.152, Harvard University Press

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• Along the journey we commonly forget its goal. Almost every vocation is chosen and entered upon as a means to a purpose but is ultimately continued as a final purpose in itself. Forgetting our objectives is the most frequent stupidity in which we indulge ourselves.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Journey, Goal

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• I've discovered my vocation. I want to be a writer.

  Paulo Coelho

  Want

  Paulo Coelho (2011). “Like the Flowing River: Thoughts and Reflections”, p.11, HarperCollins UK

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• Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.

  Georges Simenon

  Writing, Artist, Thinking

  Carvel Emerson Collins, Georges Simenon (1956). “Georges Simenon: An Interview on the Art of Fiction”

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• If there is one single reason why good people turn evil, it is because they fail to recognize God’s ownership over their kingdom, their vocation, their resources, their abilities, and above all their lives.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  People, Evil, Christian Inspirational

  Erwin W. Lutzer (2007). “When You've Been Wronged: Moving From Bitterness to Forgiveness”, p.41, Moody Publishers

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• The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a "ruined man" is itself a vocation.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Men, Sometimes, Ruined

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• There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

  Charles Dickens

  Charity, Excitement, Pleasure

  Charles Dickens (1842). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.161

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