Quotes About Direction

You can't keep yourself from falling in love, but you can steer yourself away from the wrong people.

It's always difficult to tell someone when they're still in love with someone that I think they're going in the wrong way.

The people may be made to follow a path of action but they may not be made to understand it.

The universe is intentional. It is always moving in the direction of greater love, regardless whether or not we consciously align with that love.

Love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

I'm driven. I am. I'm driven for some reason. But I don't know where I'm going.

Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.

I love being directed. I always find it helpful to have someone else's brain in the mix and not just have to rely on myself.

I think the hardest thing in life is when we see those we love turn down a wrong path, and when no entreaty will induce them to retrace their steps.

No one wants to believe that it's all completely random, that the direction of our lives is nothing more than a complex series of accidents, little nuclear mushroom clouds, and we're just living in the fallout.

Phillip is the Paul McCartney of our family: better-looking than the rest of us, always facing a different direction in pictures, and occasionally rumored to be dead.

You must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction. Random wandering will not move you forward. It will instead disappoint and frustrate you and make you anxious and unhappy and hard to get along with (and then resentful, and then vengeful, and then worse).

alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.

Don't underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces, able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities.

Attend to the day, but aim at the highest good. Now, your trajectory is heavenward. That makes you hopeful. Even a man on a sinking ship can be happy when he clambers aboard a lifeboat! And who knows where he might go, in the future. To journey happily may well be better than to arrive successfully….

An aim reduces anxiety, because if you have no aim everything can mean anything or nothing, and neither of those two options makes for a tranquil spirit. Thus, we have to think, and plan, and limit, and posit, in order to live at all. How then to envision the future, and establish our direction, without falling prey to the temptation of totalitarian certainty?

An aim provides a destination, a point of contrast against the present, and a framework, within which all things can be evaluated.

It indicates clearly that people need ordering principles, and that chaos otherwise beckons.

If you bend everything totally, blindly and willfully towards the attainment of a goal, and only that goal, you will never be able to discover if another goal would serve you, and the world, better. It is this that you sacrifice if you do not tell the truth.

To walk that border is to stay on the path of life, the divine Way.

All people serve their ambition. In that matter, there are no atheists. There are only people who know, and don't know, what god they serve.

Everyone needs a concrete, specific goal—an ambition, and a purpose—to limit chaos and make intelligible sense of his or her life.

To move forward with resolve, it is necessary to be organized—to be directed toward something singular and identifiable.

Perhaps it is better to conceptualize it this way: Everyone needs a concrete, specific goal—an ambition, and a purpose—to limit chaos and make intelligible sense of his or her life. But all such concrete goals can and should be subordinated to what might be considered a meta-goal, which is a way of approaching and formulating goals themselves. The meta-goal could be "live in truth.