Quotes About Guidance

The unruliest of men bend before the leader that has the sense to see and the will to do.

Books have long been instruments of the divinatory arts.

Every book can be, for the right reader, an oracle, responding on occasion even to questions unasked..

The Lord's Prayer is less than fifty words long, and six of those words are devoted to asking God not to lead us into temptation.

Great truths do not take hold of the hearts of the masses. And now, as all the world is in error, how shall I, though I know the true path, how shall I guide? If I know that I cannot succeed and yet try to force success, this would be but another source of error. Better then to desist and strive no more. But if I do not strive, who will? Chuang Tzu

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

E mai bine, totuÈ™i, s? o iei pe o cale greÈ™it? decât s? te r?t?ceÈ™ti complet.

Era un consejo demasiado bueno como para que yo pudiera seguirlo.

Moral education, ought never, in any circumstances, to be rational.

Providence takes its cue from men

modo de hacerlo por sí mismo. Ése es el sentido, supongo, del ritual tibetano: alguien que esté ahí sentado todo el tiempo y diciéndonos qué es qué.

Light illuminates the path of humanity: it is our own fault if we go over the brink.

Išla je i znala kuda treba da ide. To je bilo sve. Veli?anstveno ose?anje. Kad se sudbina napokon raskrili i postane razgovetna staza i nedvosmisleni trag i pouzdan pravac. Beskrajno vreme približavanja. TO primicanje. Kad bi moglo trajati ve?no. Pokret predavanja sudbini. To je emocija. Nema više nedoumica, nema više laži. Znati kuda. I sti?i je. Ma kakva bila, ta sudbina.

Venga, le ho detto Perchè? Guardi fuori, è già l'alba. E allora? E' ora che lei torni a casa a dormire. Che c'entra che ora è, sono mica una bambina. Non è questione di ore, è questione di luce. Che cavolo dice? E' la luce giusta per tornare a casa, è fatta apposta per quello. La luce? Non c'è luce migliore per sentirsi puliti.

Sensación maravillosa. De cuando el destino finalmente se descubre, y se convierte en un sendero inteligible, y huella inequívoca, y dirección exacta.

Que nadie pueda olvidar lo hermoso que sería si, para cada mar que nos espera, hubiera un río para nosotros. Y alguien - un padre, un amor, alguien- capaz de cogernos de la mano y de encontrar ese río imaginarlo, inventarlo- y de depositarnos sobre su corriente, con la ligereza de una sola palabra, adiós.

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.

Em geral, as pessoas só pedem conselhos - dizia - para não segui-los, ou, quando os seguem, só para ter alguém a quem recriminar por havê-los dado.

We need a person whom we can make our little god on this earth, as the old Kgatla saying had it. Whether it was a spouse, or a child, or a parent, or anybody else for that matter, there must be somebody who gives our lives purpose.

It is my duty to help them solve the mysteries in their lives. That is what I am called to do.

Doctors are allowed to tell us things which they might not do themselves. They know what the right thing is, but they may not be able to do it themselves. That does not mean that their advice is bad advice.

They're always helpful, those people. Which people? asked Ulf. Librarians. They know everything.

A road followed in faith was the road that led nowhere, because it stopped, suddenly and without warning, at a sign which said, unambiguously, Wrong way.

Mother was right, you know. It's an odd thing, isn't it: you never want your mother to be right, but the older you get, the more right you realise your mother was. All those things that mothers say, all those annoying things, turn out to be right.