Spiritual direction is an interpersonal relationship in which we learn how to grow, live, and love in the spiritual life.
The only religion that can satisfy today's ideal is a religion that will give consecration to life, and direction to human endeavor, inspire men with faith in themselves, dedicate them to high moral purpose, and give them the strength to live through their failures, and to face with high courage their supreme tragedies.
Look for echoes. Sometimes the same shape or direction will echo through the picture.
By suicide I introduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will. . . now I choose the direction of my thought and the direction of my faculties, my tendencies, my reality.
[D]ivine Providence. . . keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul.
Herd pressure is to be judged by two things: first, its intensity, and second, its direction.
If I can keep losing myself - and finding parts of myself - in other people's writing and direction, then that's all I can really ask for. That's all I want, to keep losing myself.
By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
The husband provides direction; the wife, maintenance.
Stay true to what you believe in and don't let people try to change that direction. Don't take 'no' for an answer.
I started as a community organizer. Every one of my campaigns was premised on getting new people involved. And if there's a theme in my public career it's that if ordinary people get involved then good things happen. So I want to see the Democratic Party move in that direction. And what that means is that we aren't just micro-targeting to eke out presidential victories; it means that we're showing up in places where right now we're not winning a lot.
It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction. . . [n]ot even when confronted by infinity.
Life is simplified when there is one center; one reason, one motivation, one direction and purpose.
Designers are more like artistic directors now. Before, there wasn't this idea of supervising the artistic direction of the entire house. The old way was to think you could be this couturier or designer or stylist.
Our thoughts create our reality - where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.
He had by now divested himself of schoolboy attitudes. He was unburdened by the desire to be a martyr or a hero. Any thoughts in that direction, Belgica effectively had quashed. Heroism in the corrupt sense of the age almost by definition, meant wanton self-sacrifice and bungling. For neither had he any taste. He wanted rational attainment; victory, but not at any price. No point upon the globe was worth the cost of a single life.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.
If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.
She couldn’t hide from everyone for the rest of her life… Well she could. That was the direction things were going. But she knew from long-ago experience that when you were uncertain and if you were courageous enough to let her in a real friend could do a world of good.
Losing both parents at a young age gave me a sense that you can't really control life - so you'd better live it while it's here. I stopped believing in a storybook existence a long time ago. All you can do is push in a direction and see what comes of it.