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"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."
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"When I stop [working] the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm working."
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Personal Development
"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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"When God chooses you to deliver a message, to have a purpose, no one and nothing can reverse the course of His plan."
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"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."
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"Dostoevski was on to something. You are the path you choose. You are what your vocation is."
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"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."
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"No man engaged in a work he does not like can preserve many saving illusionsabout himself. The distaste, the absence of glamour, extend from the occupation to the personality. It is only when ourappointed activities seem by a lucky accident to obey the particular earnestness of our temperament that we can taste the comfort of complete self-deception."
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"You can't possibly know that you're going to be a writer!" Miss Frost said. "It's not a career choice."
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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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"But remember that good intentions pave many roads. Not all of them lead to hell."
Ethics
"It was at that moment he realized that his spirit was truly human once more. For he no longer remembered how to be alone without being lonely."
Psychology
"I know this is your hand now,' she tells him. "Roland would have never touched me like that." Connor smiles, and Risa takes a moment to look down at the shark on his wrist. It holds no fear for her now, because the shark has been tamed by the soul of a boy. No- the soul of a man."
Relationship
"When you drop a pebble into a pond, ripples spread out, changing all the water in the pool. The ripples hit the shore and rebound, bumping into one another, breaking each other apart. In some small way, the pond is never the same again."
Consequence
"I love you, Risa," he says. "Every last part of me."
Devotion
"You see demons in the eyes of the world, and the world sees a bottomless pit in yours."
Perception
"The question wasn't whether or not I cared about him; the question was, how much? I'm glad Tennyson didn't ask that, because then I'd have to ask myself; and I already knew the answer. I cared far more than was safe."
Romance
"I always take credit for my acts of cruelty. To do otherwise is cowardice."
Accountability
"You should never apologize for existing, Lev. Not even to all those people out there who wish you didn't."
Affirmation
"Maybe we're standing like coins on the edge?"Allie considered this. "Meaning?""Meaning, we might be able to shake things up a little, and find a way to come up heads.""Or tails," suggested."
Insight
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