What makes a life significant? / William James
I resolve to become a jungle doctor / Albert Schweitzer
From The ethics of authenticity / Charles Taylor
Solitude of self / Elizabeth Cady Stanton
From Nicomachean ethics / Aristotle
The vigor of life / Theodore Roosevelt
Making the match : career choice / Lee Hardy
Choosing / Gary D. Badcock
The place of responsibility / Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Vocation / Frederick Buechner
Vocation as grace / Will Campbell
Learning in war-time / C.S. Lewis
From Nicomachean ethics / Aristotle
The martyrdom of Perpetua
From Therese / Dorothy Day
Three biographical sketches : Ray Kroc, Iris Chang, Joseph S. ("Smiley") Landrum
Elegy written in a country churchyard / Thomas Gray
From Just work / Russell Muirhead
Why work? / Dorothy L. Sayers
Two tramps in mud time / Robert Frost
To be of use / Margaret Piercy
The door in the wall / H.G. Wells
From The Sabbath / Abraham Joshua Heschel
The world is too much with us ; and, Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey / William Wordsworth
Friendship and vocation / Gilbert Meilaender
The changing nature of work in the United States : implications for vocation, ethics, and faith / Robert Wuthnow
Generativity crises of my own / Bonnie Miller-McLemore
There's no place like work / Arlie Russell Hochschild
Defining a doctor / Abigail Zuger
The village blacksmith / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
An invisible web / Wendell Berry
Two eulogies for Yitzhak Rabin / King Hussein and Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof
Living like weasels / Annie Dillard
The choice / William Butler Yeats
Filial relations / Jane Addams
Martha Nussbaum, interviewed by Bill Moyers
Matthew 25:14-30 : the parable of the talents
On his blindness / John Milton
From Grounding for the metaphysics of morals / Immanuel Kant
From The life of Charlotte Brontë / Elizabeth Gaskell
From the screenplay of Good Will Hunting / Matt Damon and Ben Affleck
Sonny's blues / James Baldwin
The undeclared major / Will Weaver
From The autobiography of Malcolm X / Malcolm X with Alex Haley
From The giver / Lois Lowry
The ancient people / Willa Cather
From A dresser of sycamore trees / Garret Keizer
Invictus / William Ernest Henley
The last hours / Stephen Dunn
A letter to his wife, 1861 / Sullivan Ballou
Weddings / Yevgeny Yevtushenko
From Thoughts in solitude / Thomas Merton
The road not taken / Robert Frost
Composing a life story / Mary Catherine Bateson
From Jayber Crow / Wendell Berry
From East of Eden / John Steinbeck
An American life story / Dan McAdams
Robert McG. Thomas, 60, chronicler of unsung lives / Michael T. Kaufman
The death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy.
