Jodi Picoult Quotes

We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

We're often so busy cutting through the undergrowth we don't even realise we're in the wrong jungle.

It's amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.

Sometimes I'll go down a path, and I'll just pray that something's going to come to get me out of this path that I'm on.

How do you tell somebody how to find what they're looking for when ten years ago you came from the same place, and have yet to find it yourself?

Psycho-babble is that language spoken by sailors who have become so interested in navigating their way around their boat that they have forgotten to read the stars and sea. They may be able to get from the galley to the head but will be lost in their journey from point to port.

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

If he was lost for a moment, he would dive straight back into its honey.

There's just no vision. You have no ground, no vision.

Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.

Not all those who wander are lost.

There are no signposts in the sea.

Here's a secret: Everyone, if they live long enough, will lose their way at some point. You will lose your way; you will wake up one morning and find yourself lost. This is a hard, simple truth.

Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.

I am convinced that it is the light and the way.

Leaders set a very clear path every day, in a thousand different ways, of what the people must attend to, inhibit, and keep it current in front of them.

I lost my way for a long time.

What's missing from the world is a sense of direction.

Direction, not intention determines your destination.

Look where you are going because you will inevitably go where you are looking.

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.

It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.

It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

I believe for everyone who goes astray, someone will come to show the way.