Bernice Johnson Reagon Quotes

I still don't know quite what I'm supposed to do or be.

I'm not lost, because I haven't any idea where to go that I might get lost on the way to. I'd like to get lost, because then I'd know where I was going, you see.

Until I understand where I am, I can’t get to where I am going. This is the value of a compass when we are out walking or hiking and need to know we’re going in the right direction. But we also have an internal North Star. It’s that little nudge that tells us if we are on the right path to fulfilling our potential, or on the wrong path wasting energy traveling somewhere we don’t need to go. So my advice to you is, pull out that compass every once in a while and make sure you are navigating in the right direction on your journey.

How can you get very far, If you don't know who you are? How can you do what you ought, If you don't know what you've got? And if you don't know which to do Of all the things in front of you, Then what you'll have when you are through Is just a mess without a clue Of all the best that can come true If you know What and Which and Who.

It is important that we know where we come from, because if you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, you don't know where you're going. And if you don't know where you're going, you're probably going wrong.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

I really do feel like Los Angeles is my home now and, as cliche as this sounds, I felt like I found myself here and I really know who I am now. There was a long period like I was drifting or floating through life, and now I feel like I have a definitive target - and future.

I know where I was before, and I know where I want to go.

I just kind of, like, know who I am. I think that comes from having an incredibly strong sense of purpose for a very long time.

Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.

And so he who looks down at his feet will not know the truth, but he who discerns by the sun which way to go.

You can physically move yourself around but there's that great line that Adam wrote: "Does it define for life, like print of thumb?" I think it does.

You don't always have to know who you are. Sometimes, it's enough just to know what to do next.

The most dangerous thing you can do is know who you are.

Before we met, I was as lost as a person could be and yet you saw something in me that somehow gave me direction again.

Granny Weatherwax was not lost. She wasn't the kind of person who ever became lost. It was just that, at the moment, while she knew exactly where SHE was, she didn't know the position of anywhere else.

You can spend your life competing in a world that talks too loud / You can lose your own direction getting lost among the crowd / Confusion - is it any wonder that the road ahead's not clear / Well you can try too hard to find it now I realise it's here

After all this time, I know exactly where I belong.

If I was ever to have a child, this is what I'd tell it: 'Child,' I'd say, 'don't never mess with time. Keep now now and then then. And if you ever get lost in thick smoke, child, set still till it clears. Set still till you can see where you are and where you been and where you're going, child.

Vision is knowing who you are, where you're going, and what will guide your journey.

Once you know who you are and to whom you are linked, you will know what to do

I have never seen a man lost who was on a straight path.

Everybody has to know where they're coming from, what they're doing, why they're doing it, who they are. These are essentials.

Her clarity gave her purpose and her purpose gave her clarity.

If we hope to go anywhere or develop ourselves in any way, we can only step from where we are standing. If we don't really know where we are standing... We may only go in circles.