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• Everybody has a vocation to some form of life-work. However, behind that call (and deeper than any call), everybody has a vocation to be a person to be fully and deeply human in Christ Jesus.

  Brennan Manning

  Life, Positive, Jesus

  Brennan Manning (2010). “The Wisdom of Tenderness: What happens when God's firece mercy transforms our lives”, p.142, Zondervan

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• I really feel like the first day I went to drama school and I went up on stage, that I found my vocation. It's kind of a cliched thing to say but I really feel like it was what I was meant to do.

  Diane Kruger

  Drama, School, Firsts

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• I have never done anything except write, but I don't possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at all of the laws of dramatic composition, and if I have embarked upon this enterprise it is because I trust in the light shed by how much I have read in my life.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Writing, Light, Law

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• But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of creation are the obvious ones of working with paint of clay or words. Creativity is a way of living life, no matter our vocation or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts, or having some kind of important career.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Live Life, Creativity

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• The vocation of pastor has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Religious, Entrepreneur, Strategy

  "The Pastor: A Memoir". Book by Eugene H. Peterson, 2011.

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• Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because it is our vocation to intercede to God for everyone.

  Edith Stein

  Order, Dear Ones, Catholic

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• When something is a vocation, you don't really make a decision about it.

  Cate Blanchett

  Decision

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• The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted.

  Wendell Berry

  Ideas, Kind, Good Work

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• The care of children ..is infinitely better left to the best trained practitioners of both sexes who have chosen it as a vocation...[This] would further undermine family structure while contributing to the freedom of women.

  Kate Millett

  Sex, Children, Feminist

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• We can hardly get up in the morning or cross the street without being Jewish. We dream Jewish dreams and hope Jewish hopes. Most of our best words, in fact - new, adventure, surprise; unique, individual, person, vocation; time, history, future; freedom, progress, spirit; faith, hope, justice - are the gifts of the Jews.

  Thomas Cahill

  Dream, Morning, Adventure

  "Jews Built the Civilization That the Irish Saved / Thomas Cahill says Israelites provided the foundation for Western culture" by Ron H. Feldman, www.sfgate.com. March 29, 1998.

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• The Lord's visitations of distinguished favor are always to the diligent. That great men may not be ashamed of honest vocations, the greatest that have ever lived have been contented, happy, and honored while in the pursuit of humble trades.

  Elias Lyman Magoon

  Humble, Men, Favors

  Elias Lyman Magoon (1849). “Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of wisdom”, p.173

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• The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation.

  Avery Brundage

  Sports, Eye, Games

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• Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.

  Edward Abbey

  Philosophy, Men, Two

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.10, RosettaBooks

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• Every woman who vacates a place in the teachers' ranks and enters an unusual line of work, does two excellent things: she makes room for someone waiting for a place and helps to open a new vocation for herself and other women.

  Frances E. Willard

  Teacher, Teaching, Two

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• Only the brave should teach....Teaching is a vocation. It is as sacred as priesthood; as innate a desire, as inescapable as the genius which compels a great artist. If he has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and the artist, he must not teach.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Teaching, Artist, Brave

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• Saving the world was merely a hobby. My *vocation* has been that of
  inspector of desert water holes.

  Edward Abbey

  Water, Hobbies, Desert

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.28, RosettaBooks

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• Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational Life, Giving, Way

  "Mother Teresa: Essential Writings".

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• Football is a vocation and an opportunity for ministry. But it's not a life.

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Football, Opportunity

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• If you are looking for vocations, as a community have adoration every day. Once the Missionaries of Charity started daily adoration, their vocations doubled

  Mother Teresa

  Community, Charity, Adoration

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• His [Henry Cavendish's] Theory of the Universe seems to have been, that it consisted solely of a multitude of objects which could be weighed, numbered, and measured; and the vocation to which he considered himself called was, to weigh, number and measure as many of those objects as his allotted three-score years and ten would permit. This conviction biased all his doings, alike his great scientific enterprises, and the petty details of his daily life.

  George Wilson

  Science, Years, Numbers

  George Wilson (1851). “The life of the Hon. Henry Cavendish: including abstracts of his more important scientific papers, and a critical inquiry into the claims of all the alleged discoverers of the composition of water”, p.186

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• Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you leave on the page.

  Zadie Smith

  Writing, Pages, Matter

  "Zadie Smith's rules for writers", www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2010.

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• I started acting without any vocation. I continued out of love.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm beat to the square, and square to the beat, and that's my vocation.

  William Everson

  Hipster, Squares, Beats

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• I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right. If what comes out of it are stories, then it is my vocation to believe in them and in the fact that they'll interest people and maybe affect their lives.

  Etgar Keret

  Believe, Writing, People

  "Suddenly". Interview with Courtney Becks, www.raintaxi.com. 2012.

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• Finally, this is one way to reconcile the delight in beauty with the bourgeois life. Aschenbach, on one reading, has spent virtually all of his adult life balancing his restrained homosexuality, which is bound together with his sensitivity to beauty and thus with his artistic vocation, against the demands of conventional society.

  Philip Kitcher

  Reading, Together, Adults

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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