Contrariwise: Literary Tattoos Over 600 tattoos from books, poetry, music, and other sources.

going from — toward

"A traveller! I love his title. A traveler is to be reverenced as such. His profession is the best symbol of our life. Going from--toward; it is the history of every one of us."

- Henry David Thoreau, first published in The Journal of Henry D. Thoreau (1906)

This is Krissy's tattoo:

I've been wanting another tattoo for a while. With my background of Boy Scouts of America, I always thought I would get the 12 points of the Scout Law on my legs. But while reading through some quotes I found this one. It jumped out at me and I drove straight to the shop. I didn't care about the cost, I just knew that I had to have this.

Currently I work for a residential treatment facility for juveniles with duel diagnosis. It's a tough job, but I feel like I'm making a difference in the world. I'm always telling the youth I work with that it doesn't matter what your background is or where you're coming from, but where you're going and what you do to get there that matters. None of the youth know my history, they just understand that I know what I'm talking about.  But my history and background are not so different from what they are coming from. I try to show them that if you put your mind to it you can pull out of whatever negative, trauma and loss filled past into something grand and amazingly awesome! So really, it's not where you're going from but what you're going toward.