Quotes About Direction

If I have even just a little sense, I will walk on the main road and my only fear will be of straying from it.

Discontent is the initial motivation to becoming content. Let restlessness propel you to your right place. Your experience of "not it" amplifies your intention to find "it," and you surely will.

What you condemn you continue. Focus on where you want to go rather than what you want to get away from.

When your intention is clear, so is the way.

The vision you use determines the results you obtain.

When you are clear on the purpose behind your act, you have the answer as to whether or not you should do it.

If light is outlawed, then only outlaws will be able to see where they're going.

I shall do this, not because I am noble or unselfish, but because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.

I've lost track of this speech, and I'm not too sure where it's headed. But I know where it started and that's what you've got to keep in mind. Has anyone seen my hat?

As Joseph Campbell wrote about middle age, 'There is perhaps nothing worse than reaching the top of the ladder and discovering that you're on the wrong wall.

When we stop loving, we embrace adharma. We judge, condemn and reject people. Invalidate them in hatred. We stop being generous. Like the Kauravas, we become mean-minded, petty, stingy, clingy and possessive. Or like the Pandavas, we become clueless, confused, in search of direction and wisdom. We forget the path to Madhuvan. We entrap ourselves in Kurukshetra.

At a symbolic level, the forest and field are metaphors for the mind. The forest is the untamed mind. The field is the domesticated mind. The consciousness is the farmer. If one is conscious like Ram, faithful and attentive, the mind will be like Sita. When one is conscious like Gautam, ignoring the mind, the mind will be seduced by temptation. In the absence of awareness, the mind will be wild with no direction.

Here is something you have to understand about stories: They point you in the right direction but they can't take you all the way there. Stories are crescent moons; they glimmer in the night sky, but they are most exquisite in their incomplete state. Because people crave the beauty of not-knowing, the excitement of suggestion, and the sweet tragedy of mystery.

Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees, and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed.

I try to just communicate what I want done as clearly and simply as possible.

Man no longer lives in the beginning--he has lost the beginning. Now he finds he is in the middle, knowing neither the end nor the beginning, and yet knowing that he is in the middle, coming from the beginning and going towards the end. He sees that his life is determined by these two facets, of which he knows only that he does not know them

It is essential for the image of the Leader that the group does not see the face of the one who goes before, but sees him only from behind as the figure stepping out ahead. His humanity is veiled in his Leader's form.

If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

It's hard sometimes to remember why we do anything in the first place. It's nice to think there's a purpose, or even a real decision that turns everything in one direction, but that's not always true, is it? We just fall into our lives.

If you don't like th road your walking, start paving anotheer one

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

we tend to steer our lives in the direction of the lessons we need to learn

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

What you do every day should contribute to giving your life meaning. If it doesn't, why are you doing it?