#follow

A ship's engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew's magnifying glass. Without really knowing, we divine; our life has a sister ship, following quietly another route. While the sun blazes behind the islands. ↗

— Tomas Transtromer

#away #behind #blazes #both #dew

The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand. ↗

— Nadine Gordimer

#committed #eye #fade #faint #followed

If you're serious about what you're doing, you've got to keep your head and follow your instinct. Maybe you won't reach the same dizzy heights as others, but you will get something back. ↗

— Jonny Lee Miller

#back #dizzy #doing #follow #get

When you are near the middle of your life, often God will do outrageous things to knock you back on course. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#life-missions #promptings #signs #whispers #life

Now, it is of course well known that Christ continually uses the expression 'imitators.' He never says that he asks for admirers, adoring admirers, adherents; and when he uses the expression 'follower' he always explains it in such a way that one perceives that 'imitators' is meant by it, that is not adherents of a teaching but imitators of a life.... ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#christ #christianity #follower #imitation #imitator

Lead is to lead as follow is to follow. And lead is to lead as a type of metal is to a type of metal. Which brings me to my point: To love is to lead with your heart, while allowing your ego to sink like lead.
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— Jarod Kintz

#ego #follow #heart #lead #love

I spend a fair amount of time on my computer, but I don't hack into anything. I have to open the manual and follow instructions. ↗

— Jason Ritter

#anything #computer #fair #follow #hack

Do Less. Be More. ↗

— Elizabeth Grace Saunders

#follow-your-heart #inspiration #time-investment #inspirational

We spend our lives asking the question, ‘What do people want me to do? Who do they want me to be?’ But this is a betrayal of our inner truth. We should be investing our lives in the pursuit of discovering who we are and what we were created to do. ↗

— Elizabeth Grace Saunders

#be-true-to-yourself #follow-your-heart #inner-voice #inspiration #motivation

The following Wednesday, I opted to go with Random House. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#go #house #i #opted #random