Diana Gabaldon Quotes

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

It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now my existence is satisfactory.

The big thing is that you know what you want.

One of the hardest things to do is to be present and open and clear about who you are and what you stand for. We all have issues with that.

I want to be a woman who has a little bit more figured out, who doesn't have so many doubts.

I think we all do: I think we wonder if we're supposed to be here, if we're doing the right thing, if we even want to be here. At least, I do all the time.

If, in moving through your life, you find yourself lost, go back to the last place where you knew who you were, and what you were doing, and start from there.

Later in life, one of the compensations is gliding effortlessly into focus in a thing. Since it is who we are, anything that is not the focus or supportive thereof is just not us. Even outside issues, when they arise, are interesting in that they only help define the focus more clearly.

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

A lucky person gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they're about to do and thinks it still matters.

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

I have no idea where I'm going but here's the real question: What am I doing here in the first place?

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

You will never be indecisive if you know your purpose.

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.

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

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.

You must always know what it is that you want.

Knowing where you are going is the first step to getting there.

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

I know where I'm going. And if I don't know where I'm going, I don't tend to get anywhere.

Not one of us can lie or pretend. We're all fixed in good faith in a certain concept of ourselves.

You have to be what you are. Whatever you are, you gotta be it.

Thus, when you wake up in the morning, called by God to be a self again, if you want to know who you are, watch your feet. Because where your feet take you, that is who you are.