Rumi Quotes

For years and years I have done the work I was born for.

I am motivated to write because it is what I am meant to do. It is not a choice - it is what I am. I did not choose writing - it chose me. And I believe it is necessarily that way. Anyone doing this for some other reason should not be.

When something is a vocation, you don't really make a decision about it.

Sometimes you just know what you're placed on this earth to do.

I really knew with every fiber of my being that acting was - for lack of a better word - my calling.

I really believe that what I do as an actress is my God-given talent. This is my calling, not my career.

I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.

I always had the intuition, even as a little child, that I was called for a big project.

When you have a sense of calling, whether it's to be a musician, soloist, artist, in one of the technical fields, or a plumber, there is something deep and enriching when you realize it isn't just a casual choice, it's a divine calling. It's not limited to vocational Christian service by any means.

If you do what you were born to do, I think you will never grow old.

After a few years, I understood that this is what I was meant to do.

The only durable sense of success is if you've followed your calling.

When you find something that you really love to do, you kind of just know instantly that, OK yeah, I want to do this for the rest of my life.

I believe that the only way to truly be fulfilled, the only way to truly be the person that God created us to be, is to live in our passion, is to do what we're passionate about. It changes everything about us.

You remember our talk about purpose and meaning?" he asked me, the smile disappearing. "Well, I think this might be mine. I think this is what I was meant to do, Georgina.

You don't chose your passion, your passion choses you

Vocation is the place where the world's greatest need and a person's greatest joy meet.

There are lots of things we're able to do, but I'd like to land on the one thing I was MADE to do.

People with the strongest and healthiest sense of calling are not obsessed with their calling. They are preoccupied with the Caller.

When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

To find one's calling is perhaps not the easiest thing in the world, but probably the most important.

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

I'm very lucky that I love what I do. I've never thought of it as work. I've never done it for the money.

Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path... this is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.