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1 " A promise is a direction taken, a self-limitation of choice. As Odo pointed out, if no direction is taken, if one goes nowhere, no change will occur. One's freedom to choose and to change will be unused, exactly as if one were in jail, a jail of one's own building, a maze in which no one way is better than any other. "
― Ursula K. Le Guin , The Dispossessed (Hainish Cycle, #6)
2 " Having arrived at this point, he had found no direction in which to go save that of further withdrawal into a subjectivity which refused existence to any reality or law but its own. During these postwar years he had lived in solitude and carefully planned ignorance of what was happening in the world. Nothing had importance save the exquisitely isolated cosmos of his own consciousness. Then little by little he had had the impression that the light of meaning, the meaning of everything was dying. Like a flame under a glass it had dwindled, flickered and gone out, and all existence, including his own hermetic structure from which he had observed existence, had become absurd and unreal. "
― Paul Bowles , The Spider's House
3 " My life has no purpose no direction no aim no meaning and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right? "
4 " It is incredibly important to set goals for your business, as if you have no direction for your business, your online business will be a failure. "