Top 32 Detour In Life Quotes

#1. Cool is the emotional straightjacket. It makes us less available for connection which makes us less equipped for leadership roles.

Brene Brown

#2. Sometimes God's sudden turn in your life feels like a detour, but in actuality it is the straightest way to your destiny!

Alisa Hope Wagner

#3. Victor was sinking, straight through his skin and the bed and the floor, right down into black.

V.E Schwab

#4. God never loses any part of our past for his future when we surrender ourselves to him. Every mistake, sin, and detour we take in the journey of life is taken by God and becomes his gift for a future of blessing.

Peter Scazzero

#5. I thought having a chronic illness would make my life detour in ways I didn't want to accept, but I've learnt that have a chronic illness made the only detours that are worth the growth.

Nikki Rowe

#6. The wickedness of the world was a part of creation, I knew this, and the Angel of Death had been created on that day when life first appeared, yet i was embittered, I wept for what i had lost and what the world had lost and would yet lose again.

Alice Hoffman

#7. Someone Else's words can detour your potential!

John Di Lemme

#8. Sadie, Carter, Annabeth and I exchanged uneasy looks. Normally when a god says, We must stop him , it means, You must stop him while I sit back and enjoy a cold beverage. But Nekhbet seemed serious about joining the gang.

Rick Riordan

#9. Life is not meant to be an interstate highway. It's a winding mountain road with hills and dips, stop signs and school zones. Let friends and family be the data for your GPS satellite feed, and never forget that sometimes an unexpected detour leads to a hidden miracle.

Emily March

#10. Want me to drive?" Wade asks. "I won't take any detours."
I slam on the brakes and come to a dead stop right in the middle of the road. "Sure. Why not? My life is one big fucking detour," I yell. Then I bang my head on the steering wheel and I can't help it. I start to cry.

Carolee Dean

#11. I thought following a straight road would lead me right to my destination. Like the road would just take me there because I was following all the rules. And if the road curved, I couldn't be sure about where I was going. But look where it got me. Maybe it's time for a detour.

Susane Colasanti

#12. Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#13. 'Landfill' by Daughter has calming, rich tones that are only improved upon by the gorgeous voice of Daughter.

Ben Lovett

#14. There's no place like home. And there's no toilet like your own.

Taylor York

#15. There is memory in the forest.

Margaret Widdemer

#16. Every journey taken always includes the path not taken, the detour through hell, the crossroads of indecision and the long way home.

Shannon L. Alder

#17. the two biggest hindrances to living the life God designed you to live: Wanting to be like others (envy), and wanting to be liked by others (people-pleasing.) These traps are subtle, but they distract and detour millions of people from the purposes they were created to fulfill.

Rick Warren

#18. Detour from your dreams and life becomes nothing but a bore.

Sevada Harutyunyan

#19. Perhaps the old man had chosen to look up through - or at least around - his problems while still smiling, knowing that a detour didn't have to alter the destination, it merely changed the path.

Kathy Harris

#20. softly spoken apology for this detour in my life was powerful in its simplicity.

Vikki Claflin

#21. Anybody who has had the pleasure of reading an article about themselves in the press knows that, on the whole, there is a huge amount of inaccuracy, value judgment and the use of a crowbar to insert editorial bias that reflects the current political leaning of that particular paper.

Jo Brand

#22. Failure is a detour

NightBits

#23. Merry Christmas me bollocks. The words of the Pogues's 'Fairytale of New York' also came to mind: surrounded by scumbags and maggots, I prayed God it would be my last in Los Teques.

Paul Keany

#24. Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn't mean to take.

Angela N. Blount

#25. Author says he suffered from both "a craving to be famous" and "a horror of being known to like being known.

T.E. Lawrence

#26. Your life may have taken a detour, but God is still on the throne. He has brought you this far, and sooner or later, your peace will be restored.

Joel Osteen

#27. I squinted at the cue ball, then at the triangle of balls farther down the table.
"You're a tiny bit off," I said.
I felt him smile. "How much you want to bet?"
"Five dollars."
I felt him give a soft shake of his head.
"Your jacket."
"You want my jacket?"
"I want it off.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#28. People who live on the devil's territory are automatically under his power

Sunday Adelaja

#29. For every failure, there's an alternative
course of action. You just have to find it.
When you come to a roadblock,
take a detour.

Mary Kay Ash

#30. I'm also interested in something that can happen later in life. In midstream, you can suddenly take what looks like a detour; I'm sure I've taken many detours.

Joe Bradley

#31. Often what may appear as a detour in life is actually the most direct and empowering path to your destination.

James Arthur Ray

#32. In the end, everything happens for a reason. Paths are meant to be crossed for a higher purpose than what we realize at the moment. Life for everyone goes on. This is just a fork in the road that has taken me for a slight detour. Tomorrow I'll pick up a new map and set my sights on a new direction.

A.M. Willard

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