Quotes About Direction

Why does causation run always from past to future, or does it make sense to think that the future might influence the past?

He was gifted with the special capability of making many mistakes, mostly in the right direction. I envied him for this and tried in vain to imitate him, but found it quite difficult to make good mistakes.

Most plates move relatively slowly—the North American Plate, for example, is shifting westward at about twenty millimeters a year, somewhat less than the rate at which human fingernails grow. The Pacific Plate is, by contrast, something of a speed demon: it moves ten times as rapidly, and in a habitual northwesterly direction, covering something like two centimeters each year.

There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.

How will the fact of being women have affected our lives? What precise opportunities have been given us, and which ones have been denied? What destiny awaits our younger sisters, and in which direction should we point them?

El hombre no es entonces sino un accidente indiferente en la superficie de la tierra; está sobre la tierra como el explorador perdido en el desierto; puede ir a izquierda, a derecha, puede ir donde quiera, pero no llegará jamás a ninguna parte, y la arena cubrirá sus huellas.

Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.

We cannot take a single step towards heaven. It is not In our power to travel in a vertical direction. If however we look heavenward for a long time, God comes and takes us up. He raises us easily.

It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls into despair at the first onslaught of affliction. He whose soul remains ever turned toward God though the nail pierces it finds himself nailed to the very center of the universe. It is the true center; it is not in the middle; it is beyond space and time; it is God.

Repentance then is not the punctiliar decision of a moment but a radical heart transformation that reverses the whole direction of life.

God demonstrated His wisdom in that, even as people in Europe began despising the gospel, He was already preparing to go somewhere else.

Love empowers the engine; law guides the direction. They are mutually interdependent. The notion that love can operate apart from law is a figment of the imagination. It is not only bad theology; it is poor psychology. It has to borrow from law to give eyes to love.

Commandments are the railroad tracks on which the life empowered by the love of God poured into the heart by the Holy Spirit runs. Love empowers the engine; law guides the direction. They are mutually interdependent. The notion that love can operate apart from law is a figment of the imagination. It is not only bad theology; it is poor psychology. It has to borrow from law to give eyes to love.

Evidência circunstancial é uma coisa ilusória - respondeu Holmes de modo pensativo; - pode demonstrar claramente determinado pormenor, mas se você alterar o seu ponto de vista, por pouco que seja, poderá notar que a evidência aponta de modo comprometedor noutra direcção completamente oposta.

If you think you're lost in life] even though your mind didn't know it, your soul has never been lost. It knows exactly where it's going, and if your ego will step out of the way and allow you to be guided, you will move directly towards you purpose in life.

Have you ever thought about the grid of Manhattan?' It's like...a metaphor for life. You think you have the freedom to walk anywhere. But in fact... you are strictly controlled. Up or down. Left or right. Nothing in between. No other options.' Life should be like an open space...you should be able to walk in whatever direction you choose.

You don't always have to know who you are. Sometimes, it's enough just to know what to do next.

Have you ever shaken up a compass and seen the arrow whirling around, trying to find a place to settle?" says Alex abruptly. "Well, that's my brain. It's all over the place.

I don't know who I am any more. I have no bloody idea. ... I don't know who I am. Or what my goal is...or where I'm headed in life. Or anything

That girl is going to go far. I have no idea in which direction- but she'll go far

Don't beat yourself up for not knowing all the answers. You don't always have to know who you are. You don't have to have the big picture, or know where you're heading. Sometimes it's enough just to know what you're going to do next.

Planst grow towards the light. Do people grow towards the light?" Tessa says, in that joking way she has. Professor Russell says mildly "Yes, my dear. I believe we do. We have, of course, many different kinds of light" Professor Russell continues, almost dreamily. "Sometimes our light might be a faith, or an ideology, or even a person, and we grow towards that.

Alicia," he says abruptly, "that's Maggie Stevens coming in. Could you—" "Absolutely," she says, trained like a racehorse, and starts to move smoothly toward the door. "And Alicia—" adds Luke, and she quickly turns back. "I want to know exactly who fucked up on those figures.

The blind man cannot move without a guide