Quotes about Direction

Principles are like lighthouses. They are natural laws that cannot be broken.

We're often so busy cutting through the undergrowth we don't even realize we're in the wrong jungle.

I'm convinced that too often parents are also trapped in the management paradigm, thinking of control, efficiency, and rules instead of direction, purpose, and family feeling. And leadership is even more lacking in our personal lives. We're into managing with efficiency, setting and achieving goals before we have even clarified our values.

Once you have that sense of mission, you have the essence of your own proactivity. You have the vision and the values which direct your life. You have the basic direction from which you set your long- and short-term goals.

The clock represents our commitments, appointments, schedules, goals, activities—what we do with, and how we manage our time. The compass represents our vision, values, principles, mission, conscience, direction—what we feel is important and how we lead our lives.

You cannot change the direction of the wind, but you can adjust your sails to always reach your destination." So it is that when disasters occur in our lives and we go within to discover our inner strength or to seek discernment, we have choices to continue in the same direction the storm of life has paved for us, or adjust our sail and get back on track to what we believe and know to be our path in life.

I think it should contain two basic parts: vision and principles. Vision deals with the mental picture of what you are about. And principles deal with how you go about it.

The gravity pull of some of our habits may currently be keeping us from going where we want to go.

How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.

One if the hardest things in life to learn are which bridges to cross and which bridges to burn.

Love provides the motive for obeying the commands of the law, but the law provides specific direction for exercising love.

The universe is intentional. It is always moving in the direction of greater love, regardless whether or not we consciously align with that love.