Detours quotes
49 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Being in the neighborhood and the poverty stricken environment that I grew up in, I took a detour. I gravitated towards some of the individuals that did a lot of the wrong things with the right intentions."
"Whenever you notice your thoughts detour into attack mode, say out loud or to yourself: Happiness is a choice I make."
"Things that look like shortcuts are actually detours (disguised as less work)."
"Not all spiritual paths lead to the harmonious Oneness. Indeed, most are detours and distractions, nothing more."
"Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet. Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street."
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"We make a lot of detours, but we're always heading for the same destination"
"The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings."
"Thanksgiving was nothing more than a pilgrim-created obstacle in the way of Christmas; a dead bird in the street that forced a brief detour."
"The really happy woman is the one who can enjoy the scenery when she has to take a detour. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but rather a manner of traveling."
"Poland is smaller than France or Germany, for example. What would a common foreign policy look like? Would the trip I took to Kiev last week require a detour through Brussels in the future? Would it require approval from Brussels? While the West, for its part, doesn't think twice about other countries when it comes to its projects?"
"A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them."
"Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour."
