#destination

When I was growing up in Terrell, Texas, I felt that it was not where I was supposed to be. I knew that I was meant for a different destination. I think that the minute I was born, there was something inside telling me where I would go, it's like energy - an intangible destiny. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#destination #destiny #different #energy #felt

Knowing the path to follow doesn't make it a breeze to step along. If every desire were only a skip, hop, and a jump away, we'd all have arrived. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#destination #goals #life #richelle #richelle-goodrich

Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison. ↗

— Simone Weil

#contrary #destination #idea #nothing #origin

There is history the way Tolstoy imagined it, as a great, slow-moving weather system in which even tsars and generals are just leaves before the storm. And there is history the way Hollywood imagines it, as a single story line in which the right move by the tsar or the wrong move by the general changes everything. Most of us, deep down, are probably Hollywood people. We like to invent “what if” scenarios--what if x had never happened, what if y had happened instead?--because we like to believe that individual decisions make a difference: that, if not for x, or if only there had been y, history might have plunged forever down a completely different path. Since we are agents, we have an interest in the efficacy of agency. ↗

— Louis Menand

#decisions #fate #history #individuals #predestination

If you’ve been there, done that, gotten the t-shirt, isn’t it time to move on to a new destination? Don’t waste a lot of time stressing the “could have’s” – because if it should have, it would have! ↗

— Mandy Hale

#destination #journey-of-life #letting-go #letting-go-of-the-past #living-in-the-moment

Red flags are moments of hesitation that determine our destination. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#destiny #follow-your-gut #gut-feelings #hesitation #inner-voice

No one has free will until they are an adult, and by then the choices that were made for them, have already set them on a course that gives limited freedom in the choices to be made. ↗

— J.D. Stroube

#course #destination #fate #free-will #freedom

Happiness is a state of mind, a choice, a way of living; it is not something to be achieved, it is something to be experienced. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#destination #happiness #inspirational #life #motivational

For us, from Korea's perspective, China is the number one investment destination as well as number one trading partner. ↗

— Lee Myung-bak

#destination #investment #korea #number #partner

The whole struggle was over, and yet there seemed to have been no moment of victory. You might say, if you liked, that the power of choice had been simply set aside and an inflexible destiny substituted for it. On the other hand, you might say he had delivered from the rhetoric of his passions and had emerged in unassailable freedom. Ransom could not for the life of him, see any difference between these two statements. Predestination and freedom were apparently identical. He could no longer see any meaning in the many arguments he had heart on the subject. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#predestination #freedom