Quotes About Detours

Not all spiritual paths lead to the harmonious Oneness. Indeed, most are detours and distractions, nothing more.

Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours.

Life is a journey without reliable tour guides. You made plans and then you got distracted and took detours that proved to be dull, disastrous, or wonderful, or a combination of all three. – Josie Navarre (heroine)

Interruptions are the spice of life.

Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion.

Reverence requires a certain pace. It requires a willingness to take detours, even side trips, which are not part of the original plan.

Lessons often come dressed up as detours and roadblocks

Trust reverses the detours of adversity into highways of destiny.

Too many people try to find security and significance in too many places. They look in relationships; they look in popularity; they look in money and possessions. But these are all detours and dead ends.

Time does not give one much leeway: it thrusts us forward from behind, blows us through the narrow tunnel of the present into the future. But space is broad, teeming with possibilities, positions, intersections, passages, detours, U-turns, dead-ends, one-way streets. Too many possibilities, indeed.

A frame is a psychological model you build for yourself to organize and carry out a strategy to attain a goal; to move from spot A to spot B while guarding against detours and resistance."

There wasn't a woman alive who could go from point A to B without stopping at C, D, X, and 12 along the way.

Logic is never linear. It dashes to and fro and bounces off walls and makes hairpin turns and gets lost during detours. Anything can be a catalyst, usually something unrelated to the task at hand, ricocheting your thoughts into an unexpected direction—a direction that inevitably leads to a solution linear thinking could never have approached.

I've been lonely for so long. And I've been hurt so deeply. If only I could have met you again a long time ago, then I wouldn't have had to take all these detours to get here.' Tengo shook his head. 'I don't think so. This way is just fine. This is exactly the right time. For both of us. [...] We needed that much time.... to understand how lonely we really were.

We can make detours with our mind but we can't distract the truth from our heart.

Qui-Gon looked suddenly sad. "No, Obi-Wan. Secrets must be exposed when found. Detours must be taken when encountered. And if you are the one who stands at the crossroads or the place of concealment, you must never leave it to another to act in your place.

So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes.

But that's how it is on a sailing ship, and in this respect its journey parallels that of life: simply knowing where you want to go isn't enough, because life is a windblown voyage, consisting mainly of the detours imposed by alternating calm and storm.

When we honor our souls' truth, in whatever form that comes to us, and have the courage to follow where it leads, in spite of challenges, distractions or unexpected detours that come our way--the reply from the Spirit world is truly miraculous.

Ces jeux de mémoire me réservent mille tentations de détours.

It's always the same with diversions; you get involved.

You should pay more attention to the caravan, the boy said to the Englishman, after the camel driver had left. We make a lot of detours, but we're always heading for the same destination. And you ought to read more about the world, answered the Englishman. Books are like caravans in that respect.

side trips have been as important to my life as the main voyages. Maybe more important.

Flaws like roadmaos I see. They are detours to you that I don't take.