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Letter "V" » vocation
«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.»
Author: Avery Brundage
(Administrator, President)
| Keywords:
amusement, higher education, pastime, re-creation, recreation, sportsman, vocation
«Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness»
Author: Georges Simenon
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
profession, The Writings, unhappiness, vocation, vocations, writing
«The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Men and Women
| Keywords:
vocation, vocations
«The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.»
«When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a belovedperson, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken thatlight on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought ofthe unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in thehearts you encounter.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
awaken, beloved, cast, faces, glow, surrounding, T, The Faces, The Face of, The Glow, torn, unhappiness, vocation, vocations
«Vocation is the spine of life.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
spine, spines, The Spine, vocation
«The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.»
«Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
absorbing, enforced, grudged, grudges, grudging, holiday, holidays, interruptions, vocation
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