Quotes About Direction

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Respice finem; that is to say, in all your actions, look often upon what you would have, as the thing that directs all your thoughts in the way to attain it.

Operating a household without a budget is akin to operating a business without a plan, without goals, and without direction.

In proportion to their number, [incompatible immigrants] will infuse into [the nation] their spirit, warp or bias its direction, and render it a heterogeneous, incoherent, distracted mass.

Sì: vi sono alcuni che necessariamente smarriscono la strada, poiché per loro non esiste una strada giusta.

Du gehst und gehst … du wirst von solchem Gange niemals zu rechter Zeit nach Hause zurückkehren, denn du bist der Zeit und sie ist dir abhanden gekommen.

How do you expect to arrive at the end of your journey if you take the road to another man's city?(100)

People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.

Discretion tells us what God wants of us and what He does not want of us.

The madman runs to the East and his keeper runs to the East, both are running to the East. Their purposes differ.

Because God's love is in me, it can come to you from a different and special direction that would be closed if He did not live in me, and because His love is in you, it can come to me from a quarter from which it would not otherwise come. And because it is in both of us, God has greater glory.

A spirit that is drawn to God in contemplation will soon learn the value of obedience: the hardships and anguish he has to suffer every day from the burden of his own selfishness, his clumsiness, incompetence and pride will give him a hunger to be led and advised and directed by somebody else.

here in the Rue Rossini, there comes to Slothrop the best feeling dusk in a foreign city can bring: just where the sky's light balances the electric lamplight in the street, just before the first star, some promise of events without cause, surprises, a direction at right angles to every direction his life has been able to find up till now.

receding in an asymmetric V to the east where it's dark and there are no more bars.

She would give them order, she would create constellations

Each is a cold announcement of dead ends, suns that will refuse to stand, but flee south, ever south, leaving us to north-without-end.

Alcuni di noi, però, pur non andando da nessuna parte, ingannano se stessi, convincendosi invece che stanno andando da qualche parte: per ingannarsi a questo modo ci vuole una specie di talento naturale, e le obiezioni che si levano a questo riguardo sono rare, ma ciò nonostante insidiose.

Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options

Hay un proverbio senegalés que dice: «Cuando no sepas adónde vas, párate y mira de dónde vienes».

The Christian nationalist movement is not a grassroots movement. Understanding its appeal to a broad mass of American voters is necessary in explaining its strength but is not sufficient in explaining the movement's direction. It is a means through which a small number of people — quite a few of them residing in the Washington, DC, area — harness the passions, resentments, and insecurities of a large and diverse population in their own quest for power.

You can live your life out of circumstance or you can live your life out of a vision. WERNER ERHARD

Anger begs us to make a powerful commitment to what we will or will not tolerate in our lives any longer, making it our best friend if we can turn it in the right direction.

Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken" eloquently captures the inherent paradox in living: every choice for contains within it all of the choices not for.

If you don't know where you're going, you may miss it when you get there