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• Those seeking the life of the spirit should be cheerful and free, and not neglect recreation. Married people must act in conformity with their vocation--but their progress will of necessity be but the pace of a hen.

  Teresa of Avila

  People, Progress, Cheerful

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• Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate. They seem to be incapable of that abandon which is the requisite condition of social pleasure; and bent upon winning a tribute of admiration, or some hint which they can turn to the account of pen-craft, there is seldom in their company any of the delightful unconsciousness which harmonizes a circle.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Winning, Circles, Hints

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• Nursing is not only a natural vocation for a woman, but an occupation which increases her matrimonial chances about eighty per cent.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Nursing, Occupation, Chance

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• Acting is not a profession of competing with other actors, but rather a vocation of sharing with fellow human beings.

  Marjo-Riikka Makela

  Acting, Actors, Competing

  speech at the opening ceremony for Chekhov Studio International, Los Angeles, 2009.

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• I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.

  Michael Moriarty

  Acting, Calling, Kind

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• Practicing medicine is not only my vocation, it gives me an opportunity to continue to be in direct contact with people, to see them and hear their needs.

  Tabare Vazquez

  Opportunity, Medicine, People

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• The more I think about the human suffering in our world and my desire to offer a healing response, the more I realize how crucial it is not to allow myself to become paralyzed by feelings of helplessness and guilt. More important than ever is to be very faithful to my vocation to do well the few things I am called to do and hold on to the joy and peace they bring me. I must resist the temptation to let the forces of darkness pull me into despair and make me one more of their many victims.

  Henri Nouwen

  Healing, Thinking, Our World

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• Education and training for all children to be equal in opportunity in all schools, colleges, universities, and other institutions of training in the professions and vocations in life; to be regulated on the capacity of children to learn, and not on the ability of parents to pay the costs. Training for life's work to be as much universal and thorough for all walks of life as has been the training in the arts of killing.

  Huey Long

  Art, Children, School

  Number 7 in the sum and substance of the Share our Wealth program (1935), as quoted in Hugh Davis Graham "Huey Long" (p. 74), 1970.

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• Faith lived in the incognito is one which is located outside the criticism coming from society , from politics , from history , for the very reason that it has itself the vocation to be a source of criticism. It is faith (lived in the incognito) which triggers the issues for the others, which causes everything seemingly established to be placed in doubt , which drives a wedge into the world of false assurances.

  Jacques Ellul

  Issues, Doubt, Criticism

  Jacques Ellul (2012). “Hope in Time of Abandonment”, p.298, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• By a kind of happy pre-established harmony, such as a later age discovered between the needs of society and the self-interest of the individual, success in business is in itself almost a sign of spiritual grace, for it is a proof that a man has laboured faithfully in his vocation.

  R. H. Tawney

  Spiritual, Men, Self

  R. H. Tawney (2016). “Religion and the Rise of Capitalism”, p.210, Verso Books

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• In a revolutionary age talk of equality may well have represented a passion to provide full human dignity to those who had previously been denied it by systems of political and economic domination; but in the present age it softens the spiritual requirements that are an essential ingredient in human dignity. Thus the slogans of equality serve not so much to elevate individuals to the dignity of being human as to free them from the responsibility of rising to this vocation.

  Merold Westphal

  Spiritual, Responsibility, Passion

  Merold Westphal (2010). “Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason and Society”, p.49, Penn State Press

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• In so far as the intention of education is to train the child for a vocation it is a millstone around his neck.

  John Carroll

  Children, Necks, Intention

  John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.27, Taylor & Francis

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• Motherhood is the most challenging as well as the utmost satisfying vocation in this world.

  Nita Ambani

  Motherhood, Challenges, World

  "Ever wonder if you’ll make it through motherhood?" by Linda G, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 10, 2017.

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• Latin America can no longer tolerate being a haven for United States liberals who cannot make their point at home, an outlet for apostles too "apostolic" to find their vocation as competent professionals within their own community. The hardware salesman threatens to dump second-rate imitations of parishes, schools and catechisms -- out-moded even in the United States -- all around the continent. The traveling escapist threatens further to confuse a foreign world with his superficial protests, which are not viable even at home.

  Ivan Illich

  Latin, School, Home

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• In all the arts abundance seems to be one of the surest signs of vocation.

  Edith Wharton

  Art, Abundance, Seems

  Edith Wharton (2014). “The Writing of Fiction”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• All is one, all is different. How many natures exist in man? How many vocations? And by what chance does each man ordinarily choose what he has heard praised?

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Doe, Different

  Blaise Pascal (2015). “Pensees: Thoughts on Religion”, p.52, Letcetera Publishing

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• Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

  William James

  Apology, Opportunity, Men

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.134, Booklassic

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• The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Fighting, Compromise, Refusal

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.

  Anne Rice

  Christian, Essence, Stories

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• Whatever vocation you decide on, track down the best people in the world at doing it and surround yourself with them. Aim high and be ridiculously persistent. Your happiness is at the intersection of your passions and learning from great people. Working at a big company sucks--avoid it. Smaller companies are 10 times better for learning. Be generous with your time and money--it has an amazingly fast payback. Be in the moment with everyone you love--and this frequently means tuning out work completely. And drive slow in parking lots.

  Scott Weiss

  Mean, Passion, People

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• Our public credit is good, but the abundance of paper has produced a spirit of gambling in the funds, which has laid up our ships at the wharves as too slow instruments of profit, and has even disarmed the hand of the tailor of his needle and thimble. They say the evil will cure itself. I wish it may; but I have rarely seen a gamester cured, even by the disasters of his vocation.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Gambling, Hands, Evil

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.126

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• Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select--doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief, and, yes, even beggarman and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors. I am going beyond my facts and I admit it, but so have the advocates of the contrary and they have been doing it for many thousands of years.

  John B. Watson

  Artist, Years, Doctors

  "Behaviorism". Book by John B. Watson (p.82), 1930.

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• We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us.

  Hannah More

  Mistake, Lying, Exercise

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.447

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• If you really want to engage in policy activity, don't make that your vocation. Make it your avocation. Get a job. Get a secure base of income. Otherwise, you're going to get corrupted and destroyed.

  Milton Friedman

  Jobs, Political, Income

  "The Best of Both Worlds". Interview with Brian Doherty, reason.com. June 1995.

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• The priestly vocation is essentially a call to sanctity, in the form that derives from the Sacrament of Holy Orders.  Sanctity is intimacy with God; it is the imitation of Christ, poor, chaste and humble; it is unreserved love for souls and self-giving to their true good; it is love for the church which is holy and wants us to be holy, because such is the mission that Christ has entrusted to it.  Each one of you must be holy also in order to help your brothers pursue their vocation to sanctity.

  Pope John Paul I

  Brother, Humble, Self

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