Losing Our Way Quotes

Most popular losing our way quotes

Not all those who wander are lost. - J. R. R. Tolkien quote.
Not all those who wander are lost.

Travel famous

It is never too late—in fiction or in life—to revise.

change life

To be tested is good.  The challenged life may be the best therapist. - Gail Sheehy quote.
To be tested is good.  The challenged life may be the best therapist.

challenges

It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh quote.
It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.

courage

Mistakes are a fact of life
It is response to error that counts. - Nikki Giovanni quote.
Mistakes are a fact of life
It is response to error that counts.

error

One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it. - Albert Camus quote.
One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it.

know yourself life as a journey

The descent into the depths always seems to precede the ascent. - Carl Jung quote.
The descent into the depths always seems to precede the ascent.

know yourself

Not till we are lost ... do we begin to find ourselves. - Henry David Thoreau quote.
Not till we are lost ... do we begin to find ourselves.

know yourself

By losing your goal—you have lost your way, too! - Friedrich Nietzsche quote.
By losing your goal—you have lost your way, too!

goals

The book asks why lost people sometimes develop into greater human beings than those who have never been lost in their whole lives. - Nelson Algren quote.
The book asks why lost people sometimes develop into greater human beings than those who have never been lost in their whole lives.
What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is in relation to everything else. - Margaret Atwood quote.
What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is in relation to everything else.
It's easy to lose our way when we lose our why.
There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night. - Albert Camus quote.
There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.
People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson quote.
People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night. - Kahlil Gibran quote.
One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

adversity

The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one's life. - Dalai Lama XIV quote.
The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one's life.
It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally.  It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand. - Madelein K. L'Engle quote.
It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally.  It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.
It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way. - Rollo May quote.
It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened.  But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen. - Thomas Merton quote.
We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened.  But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

spiritual stumble

None of us can help the things life has done to us.  They're done before you realize it, and once they're done they make you do other things until at last everything comes between you and what you'd like to be, and you've lost your true self forever. - Eugene O'Neill quote.
None of us can help the things life has done to us.  They're done before you realize it, and once they're done they make you do other things until at last everything comes between you and what you'd like to be, and you've lost your true self forever.
I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled.  Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value.  Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. - Boris Pasternak quote.
I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled.  Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value.  Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.
In a dark time, the eye begins to see. - Theodore Roethke quote.
In a dark time, the eye begins to see.