#vocation

Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#equivocation #gildor #wise

I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#necessity #passion #vocation #obedience

He who does little, but in a state to which God calls him, does more than he who labors much, but in a state which he has thoughtlessly chosen: a cripple limping in the right way is better than a racer out of it. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#god-s-will #vocation #catholicism

J'ai lu quelque part que la mort était une société secrète...Ce qui n'est qu'une fin, un pis-aller, et c'est peu dire, pour la plupart des êtres, ne peut-il devenir pour d'autres une vocation? - Quelquefois, et jamais autant que ce soir, je me le suis demandé. Et - comme toutes les vocations - contagieuse. ↗

— Julien Gracq

#vocation #death

Change cannot and will not happen overnight. But the intent to evolve will produce opportunities for growth. ↗

— Robin D. Hart

#inspirational #law #law-school #lawyers #legal

A great dread fell on him, as if he was awaiting the pronouncement of some doom that he had long foreseen and vainly hoped might after all never be spoken. An overwhelming longing to rest and remain at peace by Bilbo's side in Rivendell filled all his heart. At last with an effort he spoke, and wondered to hear his own words, as if some other will was using his small voice. "I will take the Ring," he said, "though I do not know the way. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#inspirational #lord-of-the-rings #middle-earth #motivational #tolkien

If you find what you do each day seems to have no link to any higher purpose, you probably want to rethink what you're doing. ↗

— Ronald Heifetz

#careers #jobs #vocation #change

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

#education #eyes #fixed #game #goal

Through music I either tame my demons or unleash them and allow them to be what they are. I don't want the music to be about provocation, I want the music to bring you to a place where you feel at home. ↗

— Michael Franti

#allow #bring #demons #either #feel

I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited a poisoned gene from him, a vocation without a gift. ↗

— Mavis Gallant

#began #done #dream #father #fear