Quotes About Direction

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

E mai bine, totuÈ™i, s? o iei pe o cale greÈ™it? decât s? te r?t?ceÈ™ti complet.

The impersonal forces of over-population and over-organization, and the social engineers who are trying to direct these forces, are pushing us in the direction of a new medieval system.

We can't leave the world any longer to the direction of chance. We can't allow dangerous maniacs like Luther, mad about dogma, like Napoleon, mad about himself, to go on casually appearing and turning everything upside down.

And allow me again to assure you that when you've got yourself going, doing your True Will, you won't find you have any time to get bored.

To train the mind to move with the maximum speed and energy, with the utmost possible accuracy in the chosen direction, and with the minimum of disturbance or friction. That is Magick. To stop the mind altogether. That is Yoga.

Così adesso,volendo riassumere volendo, il problema è questo,che ho tante strade intorno e nessuna dentro.

Išla je i znala kuda treba da ide. To je bilo sve. Veli?anstveno ose?anje. Kad se sudbina napokon raskrili i postane razgovetna staza i nedvosmisleni trag i pouzdan pravac. Beskrajno vreme približavanja. TO primicanje. Kad bi moglo trajati ve?no. Pokret predavanja sudbini. To je emocija. Nema više nedoumica, nema više laži. Znati kuda. I sti?i je. Ma kakva bila, ta sudbina.

Nun, das Leben verläuft nicht so, wie du es dir vorstellst. Es geht seinen Weg. Und du deinen. Und das ist nicht derselbe Weg.

Il problema è questa strada bella strada questa strada che corre e scorre e soccorre ma non corre diritta […] Curiosamente, si disfa.

Così... Io non è che volevo essere felice, questo no. Volevo... salvarmi, ecco: salvarmi. Ma ho capito tardi da che parte bisognava andare: dalla parte dei desideri. Uno si aspettta che siano altre cose a salvare la gente: il dovere, l'onestà, essere buoni, essere giusti. No. Sono i desideri che salvano. Sono l'unica cosa vera. Tu stai con loro, e ti salverai.

C'erano un sacco di altre cose di cui non si doveva più occupare. Era come uno di quei cavalli che, scosso il fantino, tornano indietro, svagati, al piccolo trotto, mentre gli altri sono ancora a farsi scoppiare il cuore inseguendo un traguardo e un qualsiasi ordine d'arrivo.

Sarebbe tutto più semplice se non ti avessero inculcato questa storia del finire da qualche parte. [...] Tutte quelle storie sulla tua strada. [...] Magari invece siamo fatti per vivere in una piazza, o in un giardino pubblico, fermi lì, a far passare la vita, magari siamo un crocicchio [...]. Sono gli altri, le strade, io sono una piazza, non porto in nessun posto, io sono un posto.

Sensación maravillosa. De cuando el destino finalmente se descubre, y se convierte en un sendero inteligible, y huella inequívoca, y dirección exacta.

That young man will go far, she said. I don't know in what direction, but he will go far.

Make a list of what you know, what you don't know, and what you'd like to know. Make a list of possible outcomes. Choose the outcome you think is best, then go for that!

That place is the place we have always been, and if you think that where you have been is where you should be, then why go to another place that you do not know at all and may not be as good as the place you were in before somebody came along and said to you that you must go forwards—which is not what you wanted to do?

A road followed in faith was the road that led nowhere, because it stopped, suddenly and without warning, at a sign which said, unambiguously, Wrong way.

On the wall of this yard there was the wording, painted in high letters: Reliable Autos. We get you there. Get you where? asked Fanwell. Chobie smiled. Where you want to get. That's where everybody's heading, after all. To where they want to get.

There are plenty of people who might prefer to go sideways. What about them? How are we to inspire them?

But emotions and detective work did not always mix; there was something about that in Clovis Andersen's The Principles of Private Detection. What had he said? Emotions have the same effect as a magnet has on a compass…Yes, that was it. The needle swings around in a confusing way and you lose direction.

Trust your nose, but make sure it's pointing in the right direction.

That young barista you spoke to," Ulf said. "I think we should have a word with him." Blomquist took a tentative sip of his still-steaming coffee. "Why?" Ulf resisted the temptation to tell the policeman that it was not for him to question the direction of an investigation being carried out by the Sensitive Crimes Department

Don't let yourself do something simply because you've started on a path and feel that you should complete it. Life is too short for that.