#destination

The whole struggle was over, and yet there seemed to have been no moment of victory. You might say, if you liked, that the power of choice had been simply set aside and an inflexible destiny substituted for it. On the other hand, you might say he had delivered from the rhetoric of his passions and had emerged in unassailable freedom. Ransom could not for the life of him, see any difference between these two statements. Predestination and freedom were apparently identical. He could no longer see any meaning in the many arguments he had heart on the subject. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#predestination #freedom

Even a snail will eventually reach its destination. ↗

— Gail Tsukiyama

#destiny #goals #life #patience #snail

Pandora's Box could not be unopened, no one could return to Eden. ↗

— Selena Kitt

#destiny #disillusionment #doom #doomed #eden

It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#course #destination #distance #historical #line

It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination. ↗

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

#both #built #despair #destination #easy

What most people don't understand is that UFOs are on a cosmic tourist route. That's why they're always seen in Arizona, Scotland, and New Mexico. Another thing to consider is that all three of those destinations are good places to play golf. So there's possibly some connection between aliens and golf. ↗

— Alice Cooper

#another #arizona #between #connection #consider

Everything is as it was, I discover when I reach my destination, and everything has changed. ↗

— Michael Frayn

#destination #discover #everything #i #reach

A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there. ↗

— H. Stanley Judd

#best way #destination #final #get #good

You will now have a starting place and a destination, and you will be able to determine what it will cost you to get there. You will be going someplace. ↗

— H. Stanley Judd

#cost #destination #determine #get #going

Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations. ↗

— Eudora Welty

#destinations #knowing #mesmerized #their #travelers