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Quotes About Destination

There are times when one feels liberated from one's limits and human imperfections. At such moments, we see ourselves there, in a little corner of our little planet, our eyes fixed in wonder on the cold and yet deep beauty of that which is eternal, that which is elusive. Life and death are fused together and there is no evolution, nor destination, there is only BEING.
~ Albert Einstein
Io mi chiamo Dann Rail. -E allora? -No, niente, volevo dire che... stai per partire? -Sì. -Dove vai? -E tu? -Io da nessuna parte. Io non parto. -E cosa fai qui? -Sono venuto a prendere qualcuno. -Chi? -Te.
~ Alessandro Baricco
Yo soy una plaza. No llevo a ningún sitio: soy un sitio.
~ Alessandro Baricco
Not all taxi drivers, Paul had discovered, actually wanted to take passengers to their destination; some of them, he felt, were in it for the arguments, or the opportunity to pontificate, or for the sheer pleasure of driving past those trying to summon them at the road edge. He made up his mind. What was the point of having a bulldozer if you were not going to make at least some use of it?
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Perhaps one day she would find a place where she would stay. That would be good. To know that the place you were in was your own place—where you should be.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
In her experience, the places one set off for were usually still there no matter when one arrived; it would be different, naturally enough, if towns, villages, houses moved—then one might have a real reason to hurry—but they did not.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
On the wall of this yard there was the wording, painted in high letters: Reliable Autos. We get you there. Get you where? asked Fanwell. Chobie smiled. Where you want to get. That's where everybody's heading, after all. To where they want to get.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
what life had taught me is that where we come from is a point -- not the starting point, not the defining point -- just a point. It's where we are that really counts.
~ Alexandra Fuller
Todo creyente debe atravesar algunos desiertos espirituales en su peregrinación a la ciudad celestial.
~ Donald S. Whitney
Donna VanLiere's "A Christmas Blessing" "Don't ever take your EYES off the FINISH line. If you take your eyes off the GOAL, you'll never make it to the END.
~ Donna VanLiere
Is it not lack of faith that leads men to fear the scrutiny of reason? If the destination is doubtful, than the path must be fraught with fear. A robust faith need not fear, for if God exists, then reason cannot help but lead us to Him. Cogito, ergo Deus est,'says St. Augustine, I think, therefore God is.
~ Donna Woolfolk Cross
Runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.
~ Dorothy Parker
so was the road to heaven.
~ Douglas E. Richards
It turns out that, however you might wish otherwise, you eventually wind up wherever it was you were going. If you get on the plane to Chicago, and I would ask you to follow me closely here, you are going to land in Chicago. We are now arriving where a godless education must necessarily go. The public schools in America were not secular, they were godless. The public schools in America were not neutral, they were godless. The public schools in America were not even agnostic, they were godless.
~ Douglas Wilson
Always live your life as if you were already halfway to a dream.
~ Dr. Rich Melheim
Of all the places you could go, I just thought youd choose somewhere that has somebody that you know.
~ Drake
Private flights back home, no stop-over.
~ Drake
Our plan was to go from Los Angeles to Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, where Nan's family had a lake house
~ Drew Barrymore
Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
~ E. B. White
Life is a journey, not a destination. Happiness is not "there" but here, not "tomorrow" but today.
~ Sidney Greenberg
Life isn't about the final destination or the accomplishments and accolades; it's about the journey and the opportunities for learning—and how we grow as a result.
~ Michael Eisen
A journey may be long or short, but it must start at the very spot one finds oneself.
~ Jim Stovall
One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you don't change direction, you end up where you are headed.
~ John Gibbons