Quotes About Destination

In an article I once wrote on Picnic, I compared a play to a journey, in which every moment should be as interesting as the destination.

A dark-windowed diesel train burst out of the building, close enough to make the bus shake. It helter-skeltered downward into the earth. "Where's it going?" Zanna said. "Crossing the Odd, to some of the other abcities," Jones said. "If you're brave enough to try, you might be able to catch a train from UnLondon to Parisn't, or No York, or Helsunki, or Lost Angeles, or Sans Francisco, or Hong Gone, or Romeless…It's a terminus.

Why's there a pharos here?" he said. "You don't put a lighthouse where no one's going to go. You put it somewhere dangerous where they have to go.

Unles we change direction, we are likely to wind up where we are headed.

There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same.

When people know the desired destination, they're free to improvise, as needed, in arriving there.

Mystery is created not from an unexpected moment but from an unexpected journey. We know where we're headed—we want to solve the mystery—but we're not sure how we'll get there.

Don't obsess about the failures. Instead, investigate and clone the successes. Next, give direction to the Rider—both a start and a finish. Send him a destination postcard ("You'll be a third grader soon!"), and script his critical moves ("Buy 1% milk").

These therapists know that the miracle can seem distant to their patients and that they need to keep their patients motivated and hopeful en route to the destination. To do so, they've devised a way of quantifying progress toward the miracle. They create a miracle scale9 ranging from 0 to 10, where 10 is the miracle. In

You have to back up your destination postcard with a good behavioral script. That's a recipe for success. What you don't need to do is anticipate every turn in the road between today and the destination. It's not that plotting the whole journey is undesirable; it's that it's impossible.

The destination was crystal clear:

the bird began to carry them to a new life in a new land. We'll be happy ever after, the queen wanted to whisper to her daughter as they flew, but she knew that was not true. Life never is that way. And so instead she held her daughter in silence, heart to heart, and as they traveled each heart drew on the other's strength, so that when they reached their destination they would be ready.

But that is the way with killers, I suppose. What is the end of all innocence for you is just another Tuesday morning for them, and they walk off back to their planet of death giving no more thought to the world of the living that we would give to any other tourist destination: a place to be briefly visited and returned from with souvenirs and a haunting sensation that we could have paid less for them.

Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. —Flannery O'Connor

Christ is not only a person, Christ is a place. When you come into Christ, you don't come into a person; you come into a place.

If you don't know where you're going, stop racing to get there. -- from Just Desert by M. T. Anderson

Because we're older. And this is where we belong." "No it isn't. It is just where we ended up.

And this is where we belong." "No, it isn't. It's just where we ended up.

Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end.

An afternoon drive down back roads, looking for something I couldn't put a name to. A route to some place where maybe my true life existed.

Sataa hidasta kirkasta lunta kuin tähdet putoilisivat Odotamme pakkasen lauhtuvan ja surun johtavan jonnekin

Wohin ich dich auch führen werde, es wird das Leben sein.

This is Great Tew. You can't find it on the map, you have to get lost on the way to Oxford.

it's about conveying the image of where you want to be, not where you are.