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Quotes About Direction

When you are on a journey, it is certainly helpful to know where you are going or at least the general direction in which you are moving, but don't forget: The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That's all there ever is.
~ Eckhart Tolle
to sin means to miss the mark, as an archer who misses the target, so to sin means to miss the point of human existence.
~ Eckhart Tolle
The finger pointing to the moon is not the moon.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Sanctification is more about the direction than the distance we have traveled.
~ Ed Welch
There was no means by which I might know, and so I chose the center opening as being as likely to lead me in the right direction as another. Here
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
It was all a matter of chance and so I set off down that which seemed the easiest going, and in this I made the same mistake that many of us do in selecting the path along which we shall follow out the course of our lives, and again learned that it is not always best to follow the line of least resistance.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
Društvo je nebesko telo koje se okre?e i treba ga procenjivati na osnovu mesta koje zauzima na nebu svakog pojedinca; a trenutno je svoju svetlost usmeravalo ka Lili.
~ Edith Wharton
When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment we have no compass to govern us; nor can we know distinctly to what port we steer.
~ Edmund Burke
They cannot finde that path, which first was showne, But wander too and fro in waies vnknowne . . .
~ Edmund Spenser
Yet New York is always the chef, never the diner. Being
~ Edmund White
You're in a straight line, buddy-boy, and it doesn't lead anywhere.....except maybe the grave.
~ Edward Albee
History properly so-called can be written only by those who find and accept a sense of direction in history itself. The belief that we have come from somewhere is closely linked with the belief that we are going somewhere.
~ Edward Hallett Carr
You barely realize what just happened. It is called faith. You just turned in Jesus' direction and you are listening. You want what he offers.
~ Edward T. Welch
Still, she heard herself say, "Sometimes you take detours to get where you need to go.
~ Edwidge Danticat
A "new world" view of the brain suggests instead that communication is itself an emotional phenomenon that depends on three interrelational rather than "mental" variables: direction, distance, and anxiety. The capacity of those with whom you are communicating to hear you depends primarily on these three variables.
~ Edwin H Friedman
One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it.
~ Albert Camus
Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem - in my opinion - to characterize our age.
~ Albert Einstein
Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
~ Albert Einstein
I believe we have inherited a world of suffering that must be transcended through the development of pointed direction, fostering an evolution to a higher level of consciousness.
~ Albert Jackson
Jesus was called to throw himself on the wheel of world history, so that, even though it crushed him, it might start to turn in the opposite direction. Tom Wright, The Lord and His Prayer (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1996), 69.
~ Albert Schweitzer
At work, either you will be telling a machine what to do or a machine will be telling you what to do.
~ Alec Ross
Siempre lo mismo! ¡Siempre hay que aparentar la posesión de un fin! ¡Siempre el camino rectamente marcado!
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
Coro Nadie llega a ninguna parte, las ciudades huyen y se esconden. Ejércitos de caminantes señalan falsos rumbos. Hemos nacido para no llegar
~ Alejandro Dolina
Manuel Mandeb entró en la niebla y se sintió más tranquilo. Prefería caminar en la cerrazón porque el rumbo era incierto, las ubicaciones discutibles y las apariencias confusas. Mandeb sentía terror ante lo irrefutable, ante las decisiones del amor tomadas, ante lo que ya nunca podría ser de otro modo.
~ Alejandro Dolina