Lauren DeStefano Quotes

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

Do not ask directions from the people around you. Ask directions from the person who called you.

Does anyone really know where they're going to?

One of the greatest values of mentors is the ability to see ahead what others cannot see and to help them navigate a course to their destination.

A lighthouse doesn't save the ships; it doesn't go out and rescue them, it's just this pillar that helps to guide people home.

These are all I have. I do not have the wide, bright beacon of some solid old lighthouse, guiding ships safely home, past the jaggedrocks. I only have these little glimmers that flicker and then go out.

Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: 'My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.' This stranger is a theologian.

He pulled out turned west and started driving towards the glow it was thousands of miles away, he started driving towards the glow.

There is no fair wind for one who knows not whither he is bound.

When we venture in that unfamiliar sea, we trust blindly in those who guide us, believing that they know more than we do.

Why were there no buoys in life to show you the way?

If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

I haven't a clue how my story will end, but that's all right. When you set out on a journey and night covers the road, that's when you discover the stars.

A learned man came to me once. He said, "I know the way, -- come." And I was overjoyed at this. Together we hastened. Soon, too soon, were we Where my eyes were useless, And I knew not the ways of my feet. I clung to the hand of my friend; But at last he cried, "I am lost.

You have to know where you were going in order to get there.

Well, when one's lost, I suppose it's good advice to stay where you are until someone finds you.

It's like many other things in life, Ellie. You keep on the path and all's well. You get off it and the next thing you know you're lost if you're not lucky.

When we are lost in the woods, the sight of a signpost is a great matter.

It's so important, so comforting, to have lampposts in this world who can light the way.

Fate never promises to tell you everything up front. You aren't always shown the path in life you're supposed to take. But if there was one thing she'd learned in the past few weeks, it was that sometimes, when you're really lucky, you meet someone with a map.

The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not.

The future and where we're going can be very terrifying, in some ways, but it's also really inspirational.

A map is the dead body of where you've been. A map is the unborn baby of where you're going. There are no maps. Maps are pictures of what isn't.

What, really, was the difference between something hounding you and something leading you somewhere?

Those who fall in love with practice without science are like a sailor who enters a ship without a helm or a compass, and who never can be certain whither he is going.