"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
— Henry David Thoreau

"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there."
— George Harrison

"Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark."
— Bryce Courtenay

"Study the past if you would define the future."
— Confucius

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
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— Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

"One cannot be in two places at once"
— 17th century proverb

"Grab your box of chocolates and get off my wall."
— Frank McMahon, IV

"We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course."
— Arthur Golden (Memoirs of a Geisha)

"Until one is committed there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness.

Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: the moment one definitely commits oneself, the Providence moves too.

All sorts of things occur to help one that would otherwise never have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way."
— W.N. Murray, The Scottish Himalayan Expedition

"Mind you, Thunder Bay has a lot of outskirts. It's actually two cities melded together, so in a sense it has twice as many outskirts as other places. It's understandable that we got lost...."
— Paul Quarrington (The Ravine)