I don't think I had even begun to have an idea where I was going, but …

Wendell Berry
327 citations
I don't think I had even begun to have an idea where I was going, but wherever it was, that was where I wanted to go. ✨ Wendell Berry (2001). Jayber Crow: A Novel, p.90, Counterpoint Press
Reading Thought
25

More Author Quotes

The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.
New grief, when it came, you could feel filling the air. It took up all the room there was. The place itself, the whole place, became a reminder of the absence of the hurt or the dead or the missing … ▶
This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. … ▶
It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much of his life standing deep in his own excrement in a feedlot, helping to pollute the local st … ▶
For complex reasons, our culture allows economy to mean only money economy. It equates success and even goodness with monetary profit because it lacks any other standard of measurement. I am no econo … ▶

I don't think I had even begun to have an idea where I was going, but wherever it was, that was where I wanted to go. ✨ Wendell Berry (2001). Jayber Crow: A Novel, p.90, Counterpoint Press

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes