Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

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

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

Dostoevski was on to something. You are the path you choose. You are what your vocation is.

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

Football was not what I was put on this planet to do.

When I started making music, I was like, 'This is something I can believe I was meant to do.'

Your work is not your job. Your job is what they pay you to do; your work is what you were born to do.

Your career is what you're paid for. Your calling is what you're made for.

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

You dream what you're supposed to do.

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

Only be an actor if you can't be happy doing anything else. I don't think you should be an actor if you want to be actor. I think you should be an actor if you have to be an actor.

Music, even if I ended up doing something different or do end up doing something different in the long run, it's just something that is life blood. If I'm not participating in some way, I feel like I'm wasting my time.

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

I had a calling to become what I became - I was created to do this.

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

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

I've always considered myself lucky that I do not have many passions. There's only one pursuit that I have ever truly loved, and that pursuit is writing. This means, conveniently enough, that I never had to search for my destiny; I only had to obey it.

I have to say, I feel a weird sort of calling in filmmaking that I didn't feel with other things. I feel like there are things in life you want to do, and then things you are called to do, and hopefully you can allow yourself to want to do whatever you're called to do.

A calling is the place where your gifts, abilities, desires, and feelings of worth all meet. When you follow your calling, you feel at home, at peace - you feel as though you're where you're meant to be.

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.

I know what my dharma is: I'm supposed to be an actor.

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.