Leon Russell Quotes

Sometimes, hindsight is 20/20. Sometimes it takes another situation to kind of make you look back at a different situation and really see how good you had it, you know?

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

I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.

Sometimes it's the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

There's a lot of clarity in hindsight.

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.

I think writing is really about a journey of understanding. So you take something that seems very far away, and the more you write about it, the more you travel into it, and you see it from within.

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

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.

I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

Once I opened my eyes to the realities of life, I couldn't close them.

Sometimes you don't understand what you're going through until you're on the other side of it.

I'm interested in where we are, where we're going, where we've come from.

I do know where I'm going and it's just a matter of finding the language to get there.

I always liked those moments of epiphany, when you have the next destination.

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

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.

The older you get the more you understand what you're doing.

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.

There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.