Quotes About Direction

Let the path become where I choose to walk, and not otherwise established.

How shall I go on, with my introspective and ambitious life?

Why do I have so many thoughts, they are driving me crazy. Why am I always going anywhere, instead of somewhere?

If this was lost, let us all be lost always.

else the responsibility for your life.

Why do I have so many thoughts, they are driving me crazy. Why am I always going anywhere, instead of somewhere? Listen to me or not, it hardly matters. I'm not trying to be wise, that would be foolish. I'm just chattering.

these were men whose indefatigable zeal modern philosophers were indebted for most of the foundations of their knowledge. They had left to us, as an easier task, to give new names, and arrange in connected classifications, the facts which they in a great degree had been the instruments of bringing to light. The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind.

Non v'è contributo migliore di un fermo proposito per tranquillizzare la mente, di un obiettivo, cioè, su cui l'anima fissi il suo sguardo intellettivo.

They desired, therefore, that I should engage with a solemn promise, that if the vessel should be freed, I would instantly direct my course southward.

would not lead them further north, if they strenuously desired the contrary; but that I hoped that, with reflection, their courage would return.

If you're in doubt choosing between two actions, remember this is an example of free will, and if you later regret your choice, it may nevertheless steer you in the right direction.

All she wanted was for me to have a dream, a direction, to stop drifting. She wasn't the only one. I wanted me to stop drifting—still do.

although the more specific the purpose, the better.

Sometimes, life leaves you without directions, without guideposts or signs. When this happens, you just have to pick a direction and run like hell.

You want to go back to my house the long way? he asked. Or the shortcut? You have to be cold- Long way, I replied. The long way, for sure.

Two things were impossible to him: to stand still or to move aimlessly.

I've always been short on time in my life, never on what to use it for.

They used to rush through here, and it was wonderful to watch, it was the hurry of men who knew where they were going and were eager to get there. Now they're hurrying because they are afraid. It's not a purpose that drives them, it's fear.

what's the most depraved type of human being?" "The man without a purpose.

It is not proper for man's life to be a circle, she thought, or a string of circles dropping off like zeros behind him—man's life must be a straight line of motion from goal to farther goal, each leading to the next and to a single growing sum, like a journey down the track of a railroad, from station to station to—oh, stop it!

I've always been short on time in my life, never on what to use it for.

Quédate aquí hasta que tú misma contestes. No tienes sitio adonde ir; no puedes moverte; no puedes empezar a planearte un camino hasta... hasta que sepas lo suficiente como para escoger un final.

Life consist of motion with purpose

Whatever road I take, the guiding star is within me;