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"The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function."
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"Dostoevski was on to something. You are the path you choose. You are what your vocation is."
"The answer is neither job, nor paycheck; it is authentic, holistic work born from states of awareness and being. Through the coalescence of joy, wonder, enthusiasm, appreciation, experimentation, perpetual curiosity, exploring new avenues, welcoming surprise and wandering, I have begun the next leg of my journey; I have brought the spirit of the traveler home."
"If you are a singer, you must sing. If you are a dancer, you must dance. If you are a writer, you must write. Don't suffocate your heart."
"You can't possibly know that you're going to be a writer!" Miss Frost said. "It's not a career choice."
"Who is willing to be satisfied with a job that expresses all his limitations? He will accept such work only as a 'means of livelihood' while he waits to discover his 'true vocation'. The world is full of unsuccessful businessmen who still secretly believe they were meant to be artists or writers or actors in the movies."
"For Foucauld and the Little Brothers, life in the desert was not a flight from the world but rather a school of love and prayer to learn to enter more deeply into humanity. Their goal was to shout the gospel not so much with their mouths as with their lives."
"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."
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"But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard."
"Yet when one suspects that a man knows something about life that one hasn't heard before one is uneasy until one has found out what he has to say."
"If you deny that any principles of conduct at all are common to and admitted by all men who try to behave reasonably - well, I don't see how you can have any ethics or any ethical background for law."
"Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a century, and you will see its working merit."
"So far I go with the Socialists as to think it a pretty general rule that, where monopoly is necessary, it is better in public hands."
"I have not heard that even the New York abortion has done very much in the States where it has been enacted."
"Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows."
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