Compass Quotes

“A highly developed values system is like a compass. It serves as a guide to point you in the right direction when you are lost.”
― Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

“Show not what has been done, but what can be. How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“Women emerging like aliens in a hesitant future, in a men’s world with impervious codes, may feel like dots in an uncharted territory. Discovering the crucial points, which don't line up with the unbearability of reality, may be a key to the right compass in life. ( "Terra incognita")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Watching the wonder of a dewdrop clinging on a tree leaf in the early morning sunlight can give us an ethereal thrill and at one time awaken the elapsed compass of our inner child. ("Why step out of nature")
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― Erik Pevernagie

“If we expect to identify ourselves in a second other but don’t recognize ourselves in our choice, living can turn into bitterness because the wheel of time has set another compass. When we understand that the chosen one is merely a fabrication of our imagination, the ivory tower of our expectations patently crumbles down. Only by revisiting and resetting our emotional construction do we ingrain its substance and viability. ( "Alpha and Omega")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Liberty is a supreme precious good. It is our compass and reacts to our encounters, bumps into new realities, and navigates through the complexity of our world. It is map-reading the focus of our attention and listening to the wisdom of our past. Our freedom shall follow the signals of the lighthouse of our emotional intelligence and, at the same time, take account of the social veracities. (“The infinite Wisdom of Meditation“)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“I like to borrow a metaphor from the great poet and mystic Rumi who talks about living like a drawing compass. One leg of the compass is static. It is fixed and rooted in a certain spot. Meanwhile, the other leg draws a huge wide circle around the first one, constantly moving. Just like that, one part of my writing is based in Istanbul. It has strong local roots. Yet at the same time the other part travels the whole wide world, feeling connected to several cities, cultures, and peoples.”
― Elif Shafak

“I always have a sense of trembling, but so does a compass, after all.”
― Jerzy Kosiński

“He never broke my heart. He only turned it into a compass that always points me back to him.”
― Clementine von Radics

“It was a pity that there was no radar to guide one across the trackless seas of life. Every man had to find his own way, steered by some secret compass of the soul. And sometimes, late or early, the compass lost its power and spun aimlessly on its bearings.

Alan Bishop”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Glide Path

“Why is it that we don’t worry about a compass until we’re lost in a wilderness of our own making?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“She traced an imaginary line
On the endlessly nocturnal sky.
Only to locate the north
Which seemed so near,
Yet so far.
For the compass she had
Was cracked and broken.”
― Ruqayya Shaheed Khan

“Philosophy is no trick to catch the public; it is not devised for show. It is a matter, not of words, but of facts. It is not pursued in order that the day may yield some amusement before it is spent, or that our leisure may be relieved of a tedium that irks us. It moulds and constructs the soul; it orders our life, guides our conduct, shows us what we should do and what we should leave undone; it sits at the helm and directs our course as we waver amid uncertainties. Without it, no one can live fearlessly or in peace of mind.”
― Seneca, Letters From A Stoic | Moral Letters To Lucilius

“The path you feel most called to travel on, is the most secure and protected route. Trust your inner compass.”
― Robin S. Baker

“Experience is the compass that guides us, helping us navigate the uncharted territories of life. Through experience, we acquire the tools to shape our destiny and create a meaningful and purposeful life”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“Quando você vive no mar, você não precisa de um destino. Você mal precisa de uma bússola.”
― Natalia Avila, A Falsificadora de Mapas

“Consequences are the unflinching compass that I foolishly crush under the foot of my unflinching pride.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A parent is the compass carefully laid on the map of a child who has yet to understand that the present is nothing more than the place where the future begins, not the place where the future lives.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Above us, the aurora was bleeding.
I stood frozen. The long ribbons of white unfurled all the way to the ground, growing filmier as they went. The green and blue of the aurora was unaffected. It was as if something were drawing the silvery whiteness to earth, like fingers pulling paint down a canvas, to a place just beyond the curve of the mountain---less than a mile away.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

“Leading with mindfulness is ideally facilitative in nature rather than prescriptive. Your leadership uses awareness as its compass. A compass never tells you anything about the destination. All that it does is to show you the direction. But a compass is of no use without a destination.”
― Kathirasan K, Mindfulness-Based Leadership: The Art of Being a Leader - Not Becoming One

“No matter how crazy it may feel, I found that following my intuitive hunch is always my best bet. When we are grounded, it will never steer us in the wrong direction. Acting as our guiding light and divine compass. So do not question it. Instead, place your full trust in this.”
― Robin S. Baker

“Two sides to the compass of life; ethics, the external rules, and morals, the internal values.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Rep By Rep

“Rhymes are rhymes, each rhyme a start,
few the rhymes per hour I write,
please just tell this to your heart:
search for me, no compass, quite.”
― Will Advise, На чист Български...: Pristine Bulgarian sayings...

“Fatimah handed Jasmine a lotus flower carved out of willow wood, with a magnetic needle inserted into its center and sealed with wax. As Jasmine gazed down at the wooden flower in her palm, the needle started to... twitch.
"A compass," Fatimah explained, "to guide your way through the tournament and beyond.”
― Alexandra Monir, Realm of Wonders

“It's not the Traffic Police being soft; it's just that some drivers have a compass that always points in the wrong direction!”
― Dipti Dhakul

“As technology evolves, let ethics stand as its guiding compass; setting its direction and boundaries.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero

“And don't forget some vital truth Ian… Points of view can go both ways, it is like a double edged sword, it can cut both ways. Thus it is crucial to stay focused on one’s point of view, otherwise one can get lost in the viewpoints of others, even be engulfed by them and losing ones own path in life. Be careful when you assume someone else’s point of view, it might end up destroying your own and you end up lost in their mind, without a compass back to your own mind!”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Nights

“The ferocity of the storm is always measured by the compass that we’ve taken into it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Your ‘true north’ will never be discovered by the compasses that you create.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The compass does not create that which it points us to.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough