Cheryl Strayed Quotes

Not just whether but how we find our way truly matters.

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to." "I don't much care where –" "Then it doesn't matter which way you go.

Anyone who has ever asked for directions knows you need two crucial pieces of information to get good results: a starting point and a destination.

When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

With a labyrinth, you make a choice to go in - and once you've chosen, around and around you go. But you always find your way to the center.

If you want to go east, don't go west.

You're not making a decision if you come to a fork in the road. There is no 'it' to take. It's one or the other.

Direction, not intention determines your destination.

Everything depends on which path you take.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth.

Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?

Choosing a path means having to miss out on others

The result of the voyage does not depend on the speed of the ship, but on whether or not it keeps a true course.

Direction determines destination.

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?

Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?

A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape.

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there.

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

It's impossible to map out a route to your destination if you don't know where you're starting from.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.

I like to move forward and notice things along the roadside that indicate where I should go.

We're all pilgrims on the same journey - but some pilgrims have better road maps.