Quotes About Direction

the insidious palace lie that we will get over crushing losses means that our emotional GPS can never find true north, as it is based on maps that no longer mention the most important places we have been to.

You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice about writing, or life, I have ever heard. So

Once you know where true is, it defines everything else that has to happen.

If you're lost in the forest, let the horse find the way home.

Getting found almost always means being lost for a while

clarity of vision—especially

we thought were castles turn out to be prisons, and we desperately want out, but even though we built them, we can't find the door. Yet maybe if you ask God for help in knowing which direction to face, you'll have a moment of intuition. Maybe you'll see at least one next right step you can take.

may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.

it may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.

Life is not a submarine. There are no plans.

Old age on a good day is a dance we don't know the steps to: we falter. We may not be going in the direction we'd anticipated, or have any clue at all about which way to turn next.

have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice about writing, or life, I have ever heard.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other (one perfect sunrise gazing at another!) but in looking outward together in the same direction.

There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification of life is one of them.

I believe that what a woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly. What we fear is not so much that our energy may be leaking away through small outlets as that it may be going down the drain.

There are certain roads that one may follow. Simplification of life is one of them.

379I believe that what a woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly. What we fear is not so much that our energy may be leaking away through small outlets as that it may be going 'down the drain.

To be without purpose is the same as being dead, only less peaceful.

Don't fall so madly in love with the night that you lose your way.

Wisdom is strength. Collect yourself, whatever you are, into something with a purpose.' 

No te enamores tanto de la noche como para perder tu camino.

A firm hand was placed against my chest to steady me and to hold me back.

You are but a stray thread that needs to be trimmed.

Anger did move me and perhaps in the wrong way.