Quotes About Direction

Tener la posibilidad de decidir a qué quiere uno dedicar su vida es un gran privilegio.

Life tosses us all hither and thither. Is there anything we can truly decide for ourselves?

It is good to have a goal. You should hold on to it. People who have lost sight of their goal often begin to live in a careless manner.

The world says, "When you were young you were dependent and could not go where you wanted, but when you grow old you will be able to make your own decisions, go your own way, and control your own destiny." But Jesus has a different vision of maturity: It is the ability and willingness to be led where you would rather not go.

Acknowledge your anguish, but do not let it pull you out of yourself. Hold on to your chosen direction, your discipline, your prayer, your work, your guides, and trust that one day love will have conquered enough of you that even the most fearful part will allow love to cast out all fear.

Where does God lead us as a people?" This question requires that we pay careful attention to God's guidance in our life together, and that together we search for a creative response to the way we have heard God's voice in our midst.

Prayer opens our eyes for ourselves and through clarification enables us to step forward in the direction of hope.

Worrying causes us to be "all over the place," but seldom at home. One way to express the spiritual crisis of our time is to say that most of us have an address but cannot be found there. We know where we belong, but we keep being pulled away in many directions, as if we were still homeless. "All these other things" keep demanding our attention. They lead us so far from home that we eventually forget our true address, that is, the place where we can be addressed.

spiritual direction as Henri understood it can be defined as a relationship initiated by a spiritual seeker who finds a mature person of faith willing to pray and respond with wisdom and understanding to his or her questions about how to live spiritually in a world of ambiguity and distraction.

Life is a narrow valley, and the roads run close together

From cradle to grave this problem of running order through chaos, direction through space, discipline through freedom, unity through multiplicity, has always been, and must always be, the task of education, as it is the moral of religion, philosophy, science, art, politics, and economy; but a boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.

The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.

Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.

In the long run men only hit what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.

In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.

A single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way

It's not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about?

It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient guidance for all our life. We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course.

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course.

In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.