Quotes About Vocation

Whether we call it a job or a career work is more than just something we do. It is a part of who we are.

Mortals must do what they are here to do creatively or they will become cranky.

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life to carry out a concrete assignment which demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated. Thus, everyone's task is as unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.

Work is an essential part of being alive. Your work is your identity.

Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter.

You need not see what someone is doing to know if it is his vocation, you have only to watch his eyes: a cook mixing a sauce, as surgeon making a primary incision, a clerk completing a bill of lading, wear that same rapt expression, forgetting themselves in a function. How beautiful it is, that eye-on-the-object look.

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

The cool thing about my profession is that I can do it until the day I die.

He had found his vocation: to fight the Lord's battles in the Academy and the world at large.

It matters not at all that I do not want to marry, that I am afraid of the wedding, afraid of consummating the marriage, afraid of childbirth, afraid of everything about being a wife. Nobody even asks if I have lost my childhood sense of vocation, if I still want to be a nun. Nobody cares what I think at all. They treat me like an ordinary young woman, bred for wedding and bedding, and since they do not ask me what I think, nor observe what I feel, there is nothing that gives them pause at all.

Il nous faudra répondre à notre véritable vocation, qui n'est pas de produire et de consommer jusqu'à la fin de nos vies, mais d'aimer, d'admirer et de prendre soin de la vie sous toutes ses formes.

Some people are born to get married, have children and live happily ever after, and others to became philosophers.

each of us has his or her role in life, and if we know ourselves well enough to understand what that role is, we will be happy doing nothing else but what we can do best.

Poor Clares.

When this happens, something "clicks" within you, and you know you have found what you were created to do. It is an instinctive, gut-level, spiritual experience. You'll know it when you see, hear and feel it.

From the first audition on stage, I knew I loved acting.

Now I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am.

You just can't take the doctor out of you.

We're not all called to be Dorothy Day.

I was on stage from an early age. It always felt to me like something I was born to do.

Anything that has a creative element attached to it - I will take it up, similar to my career choices.

It's just nice to be employed.