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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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"You can't possibly know that you're going to be a writer!" Miss Frost said. "It's not a career choice."
"The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function."
"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."
"I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything anything I ever did I'd still be writing. It's beyond a compulsion."
"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."
"A job is a vocation only if someone else calls you to do it for them rather than for yourself. And so our work can be a calling only if it is reimagined as a mission of service to something beyond merely our own interests. Thinking of work mainly as a means of self-fulfillment and self-realization slowly crushes a person."
"A true writer is someone the gods have called to the task."
"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."
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"While a democratic process is morally desirable for arriving at a decision, it doesn't necessarily produce the best outcomes."
"Fate has this weird way of making your wish come true by supplementing it with ten other spiteful things."
"I swear by the self-assurance with which elderly men sitting in public tilt sideways to allow the gas to escape loudly."
"Turn those deep feelings and obsessions of your heart into captivating pieces of literature."
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