Quotes About Direction

Again, living purposefully entails living consciously.

Neither the front nor the back entrance of the Custom-House opens on the road to Paradise

Happiness is not a state of being. Happiness is a vector, it is movement.

So much of my life had been under tight control. So much of Quinn's life had been wild insanity. What we needed now was both: a directed burst of controlled insanity.

Griping is for those without a plan of action...

Happiness is a vector. It can only be defined by the speed at which you're moving away from pain.

The problem with setting out to change the world was that you were never the only one. It was an endless tug-of-war with powerful players pulling—not just against you, but in every direction—so that whatever you did, even if you made progress against all those vectors, at some point you were bound to go sideways.

I am lost in every possible way-Lev

It's neither negative nor positive in itself-it's what you do with the attention that matters.

we longed for healing and happiness—as if happiness is a state of being. But it's not. Happiness is a vector. It's movement.

Je questionnai l'un de ces hommes, et je lui demandai où ils allaient ainsi. Il me répondit qu'il n'en savait rien, ni lui, ni les autres ; mais qu'évidemment ils allaient quelque part, puisqu'ils étaient poussés par un invincible besoin de marcher.

Tout ce qui plaît a une raison de plaire, et mépriser les attroupements de ceux qui s'égarent n'est pas le moyen de les ramener où ils devraient être.

I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.

There is light somewhere.

You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody. It's the deceivers who make you feel bad.

Mi sono sempre piaciute le gambe. E' stata la prima cosa che ho visto quando sono nato. Ma allora stavo cercando di uscire. Da quel momento in poi ho sempre tentato di andare nell'altra direzione, ma con fortuna piuttosto scarsa.

You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody.

Parece no haber más propósito en la variabilidad de los seres vivientes y en la acción de la selección natural que en la dirección en la sopla el viento.

The mission statement provides the WHY that inspires the HOW.

Where do you want to go? was his responce. I don't know Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.

If your knuckles are bloodier than your knees,then you're fighting the wrong battle.

All suburban housing developments look alike, and besides, every Yankee who ever crossed the Potomac except Ulysses S. Grant got lost as soon as he reached the Virginia side.

Discipline is not so much the way by which we are constrained, but the way we channel our energy in a particular direction.

when you trust the Lord God to give you the next step, when you wait in humility upon Him, *He* will open the doors or close them, and you'll get to rest and relax until He says, 'Go.