Quotes About Direction

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do." —Epictetus

you must remember that while the canvas of your life is painted with daily experiences, behaviors, reactions, and emotions, you're the one controlling the brush.

Was ist meine Absicht?

There's really only two emotions that count, and that's love and that's fear. And in all of your movements through life, you're either moving in the direction of one or the other. In order to have a meaningful life, you have to choose love.

Life is beautiful if you are on the road to somewhere

Babas?z büyürsen âlemin bir merkezi ve s?n?r? olduÄŸunu anlamaz, her ÅŸeyi yapabileceÄŸini san?rs?n...ama bir süre sonra ne yapaca??n? bilmez, dünyada bir mana, bir merkez bulmaya çal???r, sana hay?r diyecek birini aramaya baÅŸlars?n.

No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive, he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.

It is not so much a question of how far you have traveled as which way you face. It is facing life the right way, with .the right spirit, that will push you forward.

You cannot look into a cradle and read the secret message traced by a divine hand and wrapped up in that bit of clay, and more than you can see the North Star in the magnetic needle. God has loaded the needle of that young life so it will point to the star which presides over poetry, art, law, medicine, or whatever your own pet calling is, until you have wasted years precious life, yet, when once free, the needle flies back to its own star.

The blowing winds are but our servants When we hoist a sail.

The enemy gate is down.

What am I now, Alai? Still good. At what? At--anything. There's a million soldiers who'd follow you to the end of the universe. I don't want to go to the end of the universe. So where do you want to go? They'll follow you. I want to go home, thought Ender, but I don't know where it is.

Maybe I will do what I want with my life! The only problem is that I have no idea what I want to do with it.

The enemy's gate is down.

he would have been lost except he started out lost and when you start out completely lost, it's hard to get loster.

Now she understood that someone had to end the council by declaring specifically what had been decided and what must happen next. Without absolute clarity, people would go off and dither, especially if they had doubts about the decision.

It wasn't the soldiers who changed. It was the leader.

Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight" (Proverbs 3:5-6).

If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.

It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

If you start forgetting you're already lost.

He glanced up in my direction and I froze. Quickly I turned away. There are rocks deep enough in this earth that no matter what the rupture, they will never see the surface. There is, I think, a fear of love. There is a fear of love.

roads were made for journeys not destinations

At fifteen my mind was directed to study, and at thirty I knew where to stand.