The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.
A married vicar is likely to regard his vocation as a job - a tough and ill-paid one, to be sure - but a priest is seen as a pillar of the community, answerable only to his parishioners and his God, rather than to a wife and children.
There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is the age-old vocation of all humanity.
I feel about romance the same way I do about a vocation; it's a calling.
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.
Dostoevski was on to something. You are the path you choose. You are what your vocation is.
Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed. I am glad to believe that the majority of persons do find their right vocation.
Whatever vocation you decide on, track down the best people in the world at doing it and surround yourself with them.
No matter what I try to do or explore, my Kirov training, my expertise, and my background call me to return to dancing after all, because that's my real vocation, and I have to serve it.
Waiting is the great vocation of the dispossessed.