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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.»
«Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness»
«The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.»
«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.»
«Vocation is the spine of life.»
«The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.»
Author: Jean Rostand (Biologist, Historian) | Keywords: vocation
«Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.»

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