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"Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession is what you were put on earth to do. With such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
"Work is love made visible." ~ Kahlil Gibran
"We work to become, not to acquire." ~ Elbert Hubbard
"A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls." ~ Sam Keen
"A job is something we do to get a paycheck and pay our bills. Jobs are legitimate, at times, but work is why we are here in the universe. Work and calling often go together." ~ Matthew Fox
"Every calling is great when greatly pursued." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
"An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence." ~ Honore de Balzac
" Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it." ~ Viktor Frankl
“You owe it to all of us to get on with what you're good at.” ~ W.H. Auden
“Discovering vocation 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 “out there” calling me to be something I am not. It comes from a voice “in here” calling me to be the person I was born to be, to fulfill the original selfhood given me at birth by God.” ~ Thomas Merton
"The man who in his work finds silence, and who sees that silence is work, this man in truth sees the Light and in all his works finds peace." ~ Bhagavad Gita