If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there.
- Topic: Goals, Purpose
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One day Alice came to fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. “Which road do I take?” she asked. His response was a question: “Where do you want to go?” “I don’t know,” Alice answered. “Then, “said the cat, “it doesn’t matter.”
It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
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