Quotes About Destination

Most journeys have a clear beginning, but on some the ending is less well-defined. The question is, at what point do you bite your lip and head for home?

if you don't have a destination, you'll never go anywhere.

Garret went across the street to the library. There was a hole in the sidewalk the size of a bathtub. Construction was being done, was always being done. It was the journey that mattered, Garret thought woozily, the getting-there part. The mayor, and then the president, had begun saying that. "And where are we going?" the mayor had asked. "When will we get there? What will happen to us once we get there?" He really wanted to know.

On marche très vite alors qu'on voudrait que le chemin n'eût jamais de fin. Et le chemin a pris fin.

Sometimes when you like where you end up, you don't care how you got there.

Roy raised my hand to his lips. "Sometimes when you like where you end up, you don't care how you got there.

Be careful when you leave Atlanta, because you'll end up in Georgia.

But home isn't where you land; home is where you launch. You can't pick your home any more than you can choose your family.

The ray of light has to know where it will ultimately end up before it can choose the direction to begin moving in" "Fermat's principle sounds weird because it describes light's behavior in goal-oriented terms. It sounds like a commandment to a light beam: "Thou shalt minimize or maximize the time taken to reach thy destination.

the ray of light has to know where it will ultimately end up before it can choose the direction to begin moving in.

what I'm getting at is like the distinction between tourist and a traveler. The tourist experience is superficial and glancing. The traveler develops a deeper connection with her surroundings. She is more invested in them -- the traveler stays longer, makes her own plans, chooses her own destination, and usually travels alone: solo travel and solo participation, although the most difficult emotionally, seem the most likely to produce a good story.

Spain and England are the best, and of course I dream one day to be there.

People get caught up in asking whether Americans should be going here or there. What it boils down to is the call of the Lord. If the Lord has called you to a specific area, that's where you are going to see the fruit.

We now fly with an airbus, which has 210 seats, six times the week to Palma to the spider of the air Berlin.

There is a path from me to you that I am constantly looking for.

Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.

A man of purpose focuses on his destination, not his situation. Don't let your situation mislead you!

A man's greatest care should be for that place where he lives longest; therefore eternity should be his scope.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Functionally, a man is somewhat like a bicycle. A bicycle maintains its poise and equilibrium only so long as it's moving forward towards something.

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

The GPS unit became almost equally obstreperous, though, over Richard's unauthorized route change, until they finally passed over some invisible cybernetic watershed between two possible ways of getting to their destination, and it changed its fickle little mind and began calmly telling him which way to proceed as if this had been its idea all along.

Why would that cause him to pack up his bolt, chord, and sphere, and hurry to Ecba, of all places?