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I have these secret pangs of shame about being single, like I wasn't good enough to get a husband. Rita reminded me of something I'd told her once, about the five rules of the world as arrived at by this Catholic priest named Tom Weston. The first rule, he says, is that you must not have anything wrong with you or anything different. The second one is that if you do have something wrong with you, you must get over it as soon as possible. The third rule is that if you can't get over it, you must pretend that you have. The fourth rule is that if you can't even pretend that you have, you shouldn't show up. You should stay home, because it's hard for everyone else to have you around. And the fifth rule is that if you are going to insist on showing up, you should at least have the decency to feel ashamed.So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.
— Anne Lamott, Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
In my opinion, if 100% of the people were farming it would be ideal. If each person were given one quarter-acre, that is 1 1/4 acres to a family of five, that would be more than enough land to support the family for the whole year. If natural farming were practiced, a farmer would also have plenty of time for leisure and social activities within the village community. I think this is the most direct path toward making this country a happy, pleasant land.
— Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution
Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.
— Hannah Arendt, On Revolution
Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.
— George Takei, To the Stars
The emancipation of the working class can only be achieved by the working class itself — without the assistance of governments.
— pierre-jospeh proudhon
[R]evolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning
A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure. It will be a good thing for the Rougon family to be founded on a massacre, like many illustrious families."--Monsieur de Carnavant
— Émile Zola, The Fortune of the Rougons
And is it not sects, bodies of definite, uncompromising principles, that lead us into revolutions?
— Vladimir Lenin
Lenin only believes in the revolution and in the virtue of expediency.'One must be prepared for every sacrifice, to use, if necessary, every stratagem, ruse, illegal method, to be determined to conceal the truth, for the sole purpose of accomplishing, despite everything, the communist task'.
— Albert Camus
Preparation for the future was necessary, and he was willing to admit that the great change would perhaps come in the upheaval of a revolution. But he argued that revolutionary propaganda was a delicate work of high conscience. It was the education of the masters of the world. It should be as careful as the education given to kings.
— Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
If there was a spectre haunting France in the 1780's, it was not that of revolution but that of state bankruptcy. The whole social and political structure of France stood in the way of tapping the wealth of the better-off, the only sure way of emerging from the financial impasse.
— J.M. Roberts, The New History of the World
FAITES L'AMOUR ET RECOMMENCEZ (make love and make it again)
— Anouk Markovits, I am Forbidden
We can fight fire with water provided we can get it there soon enough. But often we act when it's too late. The result is splattered in the pages of our history: bloodbaths, uprisings, revolutions, you name. And on it goes. We learn so slowly. After so many centuries, we're still a people who eat fire and drink water.' 'Why bother,then?' 'Because we have to believe that one day we'll learn.
— Arlene J. Chai
If you are eager to find the reason I became the Kvothe they tell stories about, you could look there, I suppose."Chronicler's forehead wrinkled. "What do you mean, exactly?"Kvothe paused for a long moment, looking down at his hands. "Do you know how many times I've been beaten over the course of my life?"Chronicler shook his head.Looking up, Kvothe grinned and tossed his shoulders in a nonchalant shrug. "Neither do I. You'd think that sort of thing would stick in a person's mind. You'd think I would remember how many bones I've had broken. You'd think I'd remember the stitches and bandages." He shook his head. "I don't. I remember that young boy sobbing in the dark. Clear as a bell after all these years."Chronicler frowned. "You said yourself that there was nothing you could have done.""I could have," Kvothe said seriously, "and I didn't. I made my choice and I regret it to this day. Bones mend. Regret stays with you forever.
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
You wake from dreams of doom and--for a moment--you know: beyond all the noise and the gestures, the only real thing, love's calm unwavering flame in the half-light of an early dawn.
— Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings
So at the end of this day, we give thanksFor being betrothed to the unknown.
— John O'Donohue
When the path ignites a soul,there's no remaining in place.The foot touches ground,but not for long.
— مجدود بن آدم سنائی
Be still:There is no longer any need of comment.It was a lucky windThat blew away his halo with his cares,A lucky sea that drowned his reputation.
— Thomas Merton
It's all well and good to look back after the fact and see what we should have done, but we rarely know what path is best when we take that first step.
— Christine Feehan, Oceans of Fire
In the construction of houses, choice of woods is made. Straight un-knotted timber of good appearance is used for the revealed pillars, straight timber with small defects is used for the inner pillars. Timbers of the finest appearance, even if a little weak, is used for the thresholds, lintels, doors, and sliding doors, and so on. Good strong timber, though it be gnarled and knotted, can always be used discreetly in construction.
— Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings: Miyamoto Musashi
It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think yours is the only path.
— Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Mystics are not themselves. They do not existin selves. They move as they are moved,talk as words come, see with sightthat enters their eyes. I met a womanonce and asked her where love had led her.Fool, there's no destination to arrive at.Loved one and lover and love are infinite.
— فرید الدین عطار
A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape.
— Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
They thought that it would be a disgrace to go forth as a group. Each entered the forest at a point that he himself had chosen, where it was darkest and there was no path. If there is a path it is someone else's path and you are not on the adventure.
— Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work
The difference between a path and a road is not only the obvious one. A path is little more than a habit that comes with knowledge of a place. It is a sort of ritual of familiarity. As a form, it is a form of contact with a known landscape. It is not destructive. It is the perfect adaptation, through experience and familiarity, of movement to place; it obeys the natural contours; such obstacles as it meets it goes around.
— Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
It is not we who seek the Way, but the Way which seeks us. That is why you are faithful to it, even while you stand waiting, so long as you are prepared, and act the moment you are confronted by its demands.
— Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings
The most important thing in my life is to be the best mother that I can be to my daughter and two sons; full of blessings and love. I can guide them, pray for their goals to be achieved, and follow a good path; but ultimately it will be up to them to live their own lives and make their own choices knowing there are rewards and consequences.
— Ana Monnar
Like wind-- In it, with it, of it. Of it just like a sail, so light and strong that, even when it is bent flat, it gathers all the power of the wind without hampering its course.Like light-- In light, lit through by light, transformed into light. Like the lens which disappears in the light it focuses.Like wind. Like light.Just this--on these expanses, on these heights.
— Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings
Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell.
— Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings
There are two Paths to the Innermost: the Way of the Mystic, which is the way of devotion and meditation, a solitary and subjective path; and the way of the occultist, which is the way of the intellect, of concentration, and of trained will; upon this path the co-operation of fellow workers is required, firstly for the exchange of knowledge, and secondly because ritual magic plays an important part in this work, and for this the assistance of several is needed in most of the greater operations. The mystic derives his knowledge through the direct communion of his higher self with the Higher Powers; to him the wisdom of the occultist is foolishness, for his mind does not work in that way; but, on the other hand, to a more intellectual and extrovert type, the method of the mystic is impossible until long training has enabled him to transcend the planes of form. We must therefore recognize these two distinct types among those who seek the Way of Initiation, and remember that there is a path for each.
— Dion Fortune, Esoteric Orders and Their Work and The Training and Work of the Initiate
In the mid–path of my life, I woke to find myself in a dark wood,' writes Dante, in The Divine Comedy, beginning a quest that will lead to transformation and redemption. A journey through the dark of the woods is a motif common to fairy tales: young heroes set off through the perilous forest in order to reach their destiny, or they find themselves abandoned there, cast off and left for dead. The road is long and treacherous, prowled by wolves, ghosts, and wizards — but helpers also appear along the way, good fairies and animal guides, often cloaked in unlikely disguises. The hero's task is to tell friend from foe, and to keep walking steadily onward.
— Terri Windling
Listen, O lord of the meeting rivers,things standing shall fall,but the moving ever shall stay.
— Basava, The Lord of the Meeting Rivers: Devotional Poems of Basavanna
No enunciation of the Truth will ever be complete, no method of training will ever be suitable for all temperaments, no one can do more than mark out the little plot of infinity which he intends to cultivate, and thrust in the spade, trusting that the soil may eventually be fruitful and free from weeds so far as the bounds he has set himself extend....
— Dion Fortune, Esoteric Orders and Their Work and The Training and Work of the Initiate
When we speak of the Path we mean much more than a course of study. The Path is a way of life and on it the whole being must co-operate if the heights are to be won.
— Dion Fortune, Esoteric Orders and Their Work and The Training and Work of the Initiate
This is what the path of Dharma is like. It's not that you have to do all the practices. It is sufficient to take just one of them, whichever one you really have an affinity with, and through practicing that one alone, for the rest of your life, you will achieve enlightenment. Whichever practice you choose doesn't matter; they are all valid methods for achieving enlightenment—if you practice. The key is to practice with diligence for the rest of your life.
— Dhomang Yangthang, The Union of Dzogchen and Mahamudra
My home drove meinto the wilderness.Few look for me. Few hear me.
— Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings
Rites–of–passage stories…were cherished in pre–literate societies not only for their entertainment value, but also as mythic tools to prepare young men and women for life’s ordeals. A wealth of such stories can be found marking each major transition in the human life cycle: puberty, marriage, childbirth, menopause, death. Other rites–of–passage, less predictable but equally transformative, include times of sudden change and calamity such as illness and injury, the loss of one’s home, the death of a loved one, etc. These are the times when we wake, like Dante, to find ourselves in a deep, dark wood — an image that in Jungian psychology represents an inward journey. Rites–of–passage tales point to the hidden roads that lead out of the dark again — and remind us that at the end of the journey we’re not the same person as when we started. Ascending from the Netherworld (that grey landscape of illness, grief, depression, or despair), we are ‘twice–born’ in our return to life, carrying seeds — new wisdom, ideas, creativity and fecundity of spirit.
— Terri Windling
PATIENCE is the antidote to anger, a way to learn to love and care for whatever we meet on the path.
— Pema Chödrön, The Pocket Pema Chodron
As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a confusion, or a freedom.
— Jasper Johns
I’m afraid of committing myself,” she thought to herself. She wanted to follow all possible paths and so ended up following none.
— Paulo Coelho, Brida
Song for the Puberty Rite of a Girl Named Cowaka:A poor man takes the songs in his hand And drops them near the place where the sun sets. See, Cowaka, run to them and take them in your hand, And place them under the sunset.
— Frances Densmore, Papago Music
Sometimes interesting paths create interesting people and sometimes interesting people create interesting paths!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Your path will shine when you shine on your path!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Whichever path you choose, always know how to quit this path, always know where the exit is because once realised that the path is wrong, it has to be left immediately!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
But, Leader, she is wrong - "Maybe she is," Quill say and looks at Becca. Her heart pounds so hard she can barely hear him. "But you don't know that for sure, now do you, Banshee?
— K. Weikel, Hiding Behind A Mask
From the beginning I knew my destination, and I chose my route accordingly. But am I working toward an extreme of joy, or of pain? Will I achieve a minimum, or a maximum?
— Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others
My path is full of petals–I have swept it for no others.My thatch gate has been closed–but opens now for you. It’s a long way to the market, I can offer you little– Yet here in my cottage there is old wine for our cups.
— Du Fu
A river unneeded still finds its way down to the ocean...
— Will Advise
If you follow your heart, you will find your own sacred path.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
All the paths kneel before the decisive minds!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The moment you think that there is no path before you, path disappears! The moment you think the opposite, path appears! All paths need people who see them!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
If you light a lamp for someone it will also brighten your path.
— Buddhist proverb
God cuts out our path, makes a groove in the clay with His finger, and we poor blind ants slide down into it.
— Maria McCann, As Meat Loves Salt
I paved the path to the very place I don’t want to be. But passing the blame off to someone else doesn’t put me any place else.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
If you don't know where you want to go, then it doesn't matter which path you take.
— Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
I look at youAnd I want to build thingsFour wallsA roofA room with a viewI look at youAnd I want to build thingsA stack of logsA roaring fireA starlit night with youI look at youAnd I want to build thingsHike a secret trailwhere the world cannot find usA bench built for twoPicture this - lightning and thunderPicture this- my telephone numberPicture this- discovery and wonderPicture this- the moon as we slumberI look at you And I want to build thingsI just need my handsYour smileAnd for you to want this too
— José N. Harris
SnowWhile falling it hides your passageWhen finished it documents your path
— Richard L.  Ratliff
When frustrated and weary take time to accept that there is no such thing as an insurmountable mountain...You merely have to find the right path...
— Virginia Alison
Holy Spirit convicts us when we do something wrong, He guides us back to the right path
— Sunday Adelaja
Never depend on a road, depend on your strides
— Munia Khan
One way or another way it will happen..., until then make the correct choice. You don't want to go into the wrong path!
— Deyth Banger, All As None
Don’t wander around with your eyes closed, know your path clearly
— Sunday Adelaja
The Lord has predestined a certain path for every person
— Sunday Adelaja
You never find riches on a well trodden path.
— Jeffrey Fry
There is always a path to our target
—  the problem is to discover it!
If you are a path-creator, you don’t need a path!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Your habits guide and sculpt your path. The same process that builds habits can break habits.
— Farshad Asl, The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity
No path is irreversible
—  you just return back and walk!
An endless path is frightening but the path that ends is even more frightening!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Make it your mission to encourage everyone who crosses your path.
— Skip Prichard
It is a great privilege to travel alone on the right path knowing at heart that one day millions too will travel on that same road!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The Lord has predestined a specific path for every person
— Sunday Adelaja
The whole world may call you to follow the wrong path! In such a case, tell the whole world to buzz off!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
For pilgrims walking...every footfall is doubled, landing at once on the actual road and also on the path of faith.
— Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
Anyway, I think the two of you should be free to do whatever you want right now. When you're young, you think the only way to happiness is the hard road... but it's actually much simpler than that.
— Inio Asano, Solanin
You will never be lonely on the right path because the truth itself is the best companion a person can ever have!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
A lost road will remember your footsteps because someday you may want to return, tracing the way.
— Munia Khan
Water is the most perfect traveller because when it travels it becomes the path itself!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
When you find the best path ahead of you, leave all other paths behind you!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The path to tranquility gets through the storms!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The festivals can not stop my path of walk; for me, every day is a day of war, is a day of struggle, is a day of work.
— Tanmaya Guru
A person chose their path. Or they made a new one.
— Victoria Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows
May righteous God guide you on a right path.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A wrong path may take you to the right wisdom!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The rogue has suffered much. He needs someone to remind him of why he once believed in a good path...
— Elizabeth Carlton, The Royal Rogue
People die from checkmate..., they run and run they are always the figure king, they run and run one of their paths once it's blocked they run and run keep it again a path is blocked they run in this place again and again.... with the time the path goes small and small one moment you have one path and then a other figure comes and it has been blocked by it... so you are killed by this you can't protect yourself. It's the best attack ever made, it's called checkmate!
— Deyth Banger
If the path is beautiful, all you have to do when walking in that path is to be beautiful so as to not ruin the beauty of the path!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
When people like the path you walk and the style you walk in that path, they will start following you!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Only the exceptional paths bring exceptional glories!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Know all the paths, but walk on your path! Be original!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Where we are going is touching the invisible, invisible becoming visible...
— Deyth Banger
Choose the paths which are not worn out by many feet!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
If you are unable to reach a person you must know that this happens not because that the roads are closed but because you don’t know the true paths to reach that person!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
If you find wisdom, you will discover the light of bright path.
— Lailah  Gifty  Akita
I know where I come from, where I am now and where the wish to go.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Only you can find your sacred path.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
People want the here and now, rather than the there and after; as most are living in the where and what.
— Anthony Liccione
I was on the path of the warrior, when I realized I was the warrior.
— Neetal Parekh
Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.
— George Herbert
Those who seek only the rapture of divine union and quiescence of the mystic state are likewise not on our path. Such navel gazers lose the script for why they are even incarnated in the first place. To the sorcerer there is not much point in moments of primordial awareness if it does not carry over into the living levels of consciousness; no purpose to receiving the uncreated and clear light, if one cannot reflect it outward through world and deed; and no purpose in being a sovereign if you cannot leave the kingdom better than you found it.
— Jason G. Miller, Financial Sorcery: Magical Strategies to Create Real and Lasting Wealth
Unless you leave the known paths, no one will realize your footprints!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The nicest thing about being lost is that you get rid of the fear of losing your path!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
One can easily forget his destination when walking in a marvellous path towards his destination! The attraction of the path can be much stronger than the attraction of the target!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The longest path is always the one you walk with fear!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
In reality, when you feel depressed, lonely, betrayed, or any unwanted feelings, this is an important moment on the spiritual path. This is when real transformation can take place.
— Pema Chödrön
To know your life purpose is to connect with a higher power.
— Shannon L. Alder
As long as you keep on walking on the old paths, you will never have footprints on the new paths!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
However, Heaven can only show you the way. You must walk the path yourself.
— Akatsuki no Yona
The goal had been important only for the sake of finding the path to it.
— Sten Nadolny, Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit
If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
— Frank A. Clark
The path to success is not a straight line.
— Harley King
Many have said, “Follow my steps” I say to you, create your own paths, and follow no one, live, risk it all, die and be free.
— Quetzal
You may lose your path, but you must never lose your hope, because hope is the path to all the paths!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
When the wind likes a path, the weeds around that path will tremble all day long!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Watch the fools! Watch them carefully! Learn their paths so that you can learn how to avoid them!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
I hope you remember that if you encounter an obstacle on the road, don’t think of it as an obstacle at all… think of it as a challenge to find a new path on the road less traveled.
— Hyeonseo Lee, The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story
Sometimes you find your way and sometimes way finds you!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Always ask yourself why God created me? If you know the answer, you are on the right path .
— Ghalia Altawil
Choose to live life.Choose your own career paths.Choose your own destiny.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
There is no correct path. We pave our own roads. Don't be afraid to find your own way. ...I hate to see people hung up on "what they're supposed to do". Decide for yourself. There is no other way
— Alex Gaskarth
When you know the destination, the path is easy.
— Ratmir Timashev, CEO Veeam
This trail is never-changing, it won’t lead you astray. It won’t always be easy to follow and at times it will look too narrow for your paws. Follow it anyway, and you’ll overcome every challenge you face.” -Faolan
— Brittany L. Engels, Rompita Kero, Healing for the Broken Heart
We're all here. We're close to the truck, and we met Kenton, a fine citizen of Salem. We rescued Izzy and found our way through a very sad darkness, dangers that we knew from Izzy's Orion interpretation would be waiting for us. We're definitely on the right track.
— Jonathan Friesen, Both of Me
Weak needs a path to reach anywhere
—  strong needs only a ground to reach anywhere!
If you know the right path, never keep it to only yourself! If you know the wrong path, never keep it to only yourself!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone.
— Alexander Graham Bell
I'd gotten someone killed.The price people seem to pay for crossing my path.
— Marie Lu, Prodigy
She is so free with herself and so certain of her path, something I now cynically believe only comes from not being aware of the infinite multitude of right paths.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
You will choose your path, or perhaps it will choose you.
— Gemma Malley, The Resistance
My route, Sior Francis—and don't be surprised when you hear it—my route when I set out to find God... was... laziness. Yes, laziness. If I wasn't lazy I would have gone the way of respectable, upstanding people. Like everyone else I would have studied a trade—cabinet-maker, weaver, mason—and opened a shop; I would have worked all day long, and where then would I have found time to search for God? I might as well be looking for a needle in a haystack: that's what I would have said to myself. All my mind and thoughts would have been occupied with how to earn my living, feed my children, how to keep the upper hand over my wife. With such worries, curse them, how could I have the time, or inclination, or the pure heart needed to think about the Almighty?But by the grace of God I was born lazy. To work, get married, have children, and make problems for myself were all too much trouble. I simply sat in the sun during winter and in the shade during summer, while at night, stretched out on my back on the roof of my house, I watched the moon and the stars. And when you watch the moon and the stars how can you expect your mind not to dwell on God? I couldn't sleep any more. Who made all that? I asked myself. And why? Who made me, and why? Where can I find God so that I may ask Him? Piety requires laziness, you know. It requires leisure—and don't listen to what others say. The laborer who lives from hand to mouth returns home each night exhausted and famished. He assaults his dinner, bolts his food, then quarrels with his wife, beats his children without rhyme or reason simply because he's tired and irritated, and afterwards he clenches his fists and sleeps. Waking up for a moment he finds his wife at his side, couples with her, clenches his fists once more, and plunges back into sleep.... Where can he find time for God? But the man who is without work, children, and wife thinks about God, at first just out of curiosity, but later with anguish.
— Nikos Kazantzakis, Saint Francis
Because everyone is doing it doesn't make it right and because you stand out doesn't make it wrong. Just find a path that you can defend.
— Temi 'T Quest' Sholeye
Keep traveling, even if you don't know where the road will end.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Virginia: Oh, you made it. Tony: I was going to say the same to you. I've been here quite a whileVirginia: Really?Tony: Yes, about an hour.Virginia: I didn't know it was a race.Tony: I didn't know that was a path.
— Kathryn Wesley, The 10th Kingdom
Success is finding your own path in life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, The Alphabets of  Success: Passion Driven Life
Create your own path.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Illuminate your path to a greater success.
— Vishwas Chavan
Whenever new shorts cuts open the old roads get freer
— Saahil Prem
You have to choose what you want to be.You have to choose your own path in life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Tell me about your life since I last saw you." | "There are no great mysteries to tell. My path is always there, and I do everything I can to follow it in a dignified way." | "What is your path?" | "The path of someone seeking love." | "And love's path is really complicated." | "Because on that path we can go either to heaven or to hell?
— Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
When we seek from Zen (or from any spiritual path) the fulfillment of our fantasies, we separate from the earth and sky, from our loved ones, from our aching backs and hearts, from the very soles of our feet. Such fantasies insulate us for a time; yet in ten thousand ways reality intrudes, and our lives become anxious scurrying, quiet desperation, confusing melodrama.
— Charlotte Joko Beck, Nothing Special
You learn to ride on the path and keep your eyes open so you can see what is there, not what you wish were there.... And then after all you might discover that what is there is what you wished for all along.
— Kate Elliott, Traitors' Gate
You haven't loved yet," he said. "You've only been trying to love; beginning to love. Trust alone is not love, illusion is not love, desire alone is not love. All these were paths leading you out of yourself, it is true, and so you thought they led to another, but you never reached the other. You were only on the way.
— Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love
Listen to your heart, it will guide you on the right path.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
... Because one who seeks the highest must not leave any path untried.
— Peter Høeg, The Quiet Girl
walkin' thru path is struggling to the aim ahead. imaginin' what final could see will give big motivation to step with spirit. many obstacles seem nothing. but when struggling ends nothingGod knows this effort
— wasiman waz
A brand precedes, parallels, and leaves a path behind. What your brand will say, is saying, and has said matters more the deeper we go into the globalized, digitized, connection economy.
— Ryan Lilly, #Networking is people looking for people looking for people
If you are not on your path of purpose, you will only have misery in your life.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Most successful people chose the path and did the things in their own way, against all the rules and guidelines, but we are everyday told to follow the rules to be a successful person.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
Listen to your instincts. It will guide you to the right path.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Your sincere and honest effort only,shall lead you to the path of SUCCESS!!!								 - Adbhut
— Santosh Adbhut Kumar
You only live once in your life.Decide the the path to be travel by you in this life.
— Lailah GiftyAkita
As long as you're moving, it's easier to steer.
— Anonymous
If you could go back and change just one thing about your life, would you? and if you did, would that change make your life better? Or would that change ultimately break your heart? or break the heart of another? would you choose an entirely different path? or would you change just one thing? just one moment. one moment that you always wanted back.
— Lucas Scott
I love books because I don't have to wait for the commercials to be over to find out what happens.
— Unknown.
All the various types of teachings and spiritual paths are related to the different capacities of understanding that different individuals have. There does not exist, from an absolute point of view, any teaching which is more perfect or effective than another. A teaching's value lies solely in the inner awakening which an individual can arrive at through it. If a person benefits from a given teaching, for that person that teaching is the supreme path, because it is suited to his or her nature and capacities. There's no sense in trying to judge it as more or less elevated in relation to other paths to realization.
— Namkhai Norbu, Dzogchen: The Self-Perfected State
Obedience is a foundational stepping-stone on the path of God’s will.
— Elizabeth George, A Woman After God's Own Heart
Luna had told us not to drop the rose, not to leave the path. But we never dropped the rose - it was on me the whole time - and we didn't leave the path, not really. We just took a shortcut through the shadows and the brush, something idiots have been doing in fairy tales since the beginning of time.
— Seanan McGuire, Ashes of Honor
Watching someone you love go through difficult times is like being trapped in your own body but paralyzed. You want to yell at them, scream, help them, but your body won’t move, and you know that no matter how hard you try, in the end, the path is theirs to choose. You can’t choose for them. What a terrifying concept, especially considering we hardly see every option when we’re stuck in our own self-defeat.
— Rachel Van Dyken, Toxic
No matter how far down a path you go, if it's the wrong path, turn around and go back home - before it is too late.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
Whatever my path, I have faith I will end up where I need to be.
— Celia McMahon, Skye
Either you take a path, RIGHT or LEFT, and if it was a mistake, turn back and take the other path, because your are the one who can change it.
— Adel Sakura
Since the day I’d left Yoroido, I’d done nothing but worry that every turn of life’s wheel would bring yet another obstacle into my path; and of course, it was the worrying and the struggle that had always made life so vividly real to me.
— Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
Will you share that path with me always?”“Nothing would please me more.
— Sarah Holman, A Different Kind of Courage
The one who asks questions does not lose his way.
— Akan proverb
Every road will take you somewhere! But the question is: To where? To a sunny place or to a place full with shadows? Those who are very sure of their paths often end up in the second place! Don’t be so sure with your path, question it ten times, question it hundred times!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
If you are walking on the wrong path not knowingly, that is bad for you; if walking knowingly, that is stupid for you and if you lead others on the wrong path deliberately that is a shame for you!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Stay away from people who gossip and spread rumors. They are choosing the path of emotional bullying and negativity.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Never leave me behind
—  you are the only path I can walk without hesitations.
Deja Vu confirms a faithful path worth taking.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
Do you ever feel like you're on the wrong path in your life? What if I told you there is no wrong path? Every path in your life is always the right path, the perfect path. So I say enjoy the view and appreciate that the path you're on, is leading you where you need to go….
— James A. Murphy, The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations
No matter which path you are on, always do this: Question your path! If you are on the wrong path, change it; no matter on which mile of the road, change it! Till you find the right path, change all the paths!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Surely you may happen to get loston the way, but naturally that issimply how you find your self.
— Morgan Chabane
If you Surrender to temptation thenweak is your soul, for you like grassthat alows the wind to be its "controlfreak". A strong soul knows what itwants and adheres to its principles likea tree that stands still despite thecondition.
— Morgan Chabane
Some will and some won't, some do and some don't. If you won't and you don't, then you have no one else to blame. If you will and you do, the world will beat a path to your doorstep…
— James A. Murphy, The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations
Even the longest beautiful path is perceived as very short and even the shortest ugly path is perceived as very long! Beauty changes the perceptions!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
If the path you walk is the right one, then the big question comes: How many people have you directed to that path?
— Mehmet Murat ildan
...I see myself at crossroads in my life, mapless, lacking bits of knowledge - then, the Moon breaks through, lights up the path before me...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
Well everybody's got a story to tell And everybody's got a wound to be healed I want to believe there's beauty here So, I guess you're tired of holding on I can't let go, I can't move on I want to believe there's meaning here How many times have you heard me cry out "God please take this"? How many times have you given me strength to Just keep breathing? Oh I need you God, I need you now. Standing on a road I didn't plan Wondering how I got to where I am I'm trying to hear that still small voice I'm trying to hear above the noise Though I walk, though I walk through the shadows And I, I am so afraid Please stay, please stay right beside me With every single step I take How many times have you heard me cry out? And how many times have you given me strength? I need you now I need you now
— Plumb
Do not be afraid to walk the path that you must go just because you cannot see the end. The path becomes clearer as you continue to go on.
— Tracy Allen
His way isn't the same as mine, nor mine as his. But we're both in search of our destinies, and I respect him for that.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Quing-Jao: I am a slave to the gods, and I rejoice in it.Jane: A slave who rejoices is a slave indeed.
— Orson Scott Card, Xenocide
The man journeyed far, and he heard and saw many strange things on his travels. He learned that - that the friend and the enemy are but two faces of the same self. That the path one believes chosen long since, constant and unchangeable, straight and wide, can alter in an instant. Can branch, and twist and lead the traveler to places far beyond his wildest imaginings. That there are mysteries beyond the mind of mortal man, and that to deny their existence is to spend a life of half-consciousness.
— Juliet Marillier, Daughter of the Forest
People enter different paths seeking for happiness and fulfillment. We must respect other people's individuality. Just because they're not on your path doesn't mean they are on the wrong track.
— Ogwo David Emenike, Happiness Recipe: Eat and Stay Happy
There are those laughing their way to hell; and those, crying themselves to heaven.
— Anthony Liccione
We all have different paths in life. As in purpose, so is happiness. As our purposes differ, so do our roads to happiness differ, though we may have common grounds.
— Ogwo David Emenike, Happiness Recipe: Eat and Stay Happy
Staying in alignment with truth will always illuminate the path of another soul’s journey.
— Molly Friedenfeld, The Book of Simple Human Truths
Find then follow the path that enables you to create the life you want to live.
— Steven Redhead, The Solution
Just because a path never existed, doesn't mean that it isn't there...
— Lionel Suggs
All the different religion are erally like different paths leading to the same goal. So there is no question of prescribing any rigid set of principles or practices. Everyone has got the right to follow his own path and approach God in his own way.
— Kedar Nath Tiwari, Comparative Religion
Deepening awareness and nonjudgmental acceptance of one’s thoughts fosters a new relationship with them, creating the space to purposefully shift mental focus away from the ruminative thought patterns that pave the road to suffering.
— Dan Mager, Some Assembly Required: A Balanced Approach to Recovery from Addiction and Chronic Pain
Following the Universal Way means practicing selflessness and extending virtue to the world unconditionally. In this way one not only eliminates the heavy contamination accumulated throughout many lifetimes but may also bring about the possibility of restoring one's original divine nature and become an integral being of the multi-universe.
— Lao Tzu, Hua Hu Ching: The Unknown Teachings of Lao Tzu
Not by refraining from action does man attain freedom from action. Not by mere renunciation does he attain supreme perfection.
— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, The Bhagavad Gita
Today religious nuts outnumber monkey nuts in the world.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
Staring thus closely at time we suddenly realize that what many look upon as a bromide is really a bombshell; namely, the fact that "there is no time like the present." Indeed, no! For it is the only time God grants to any of us. He does not give us years, months, days, or even hours. He grants us nothing but the truly, indivisible, yet immense and immeasurable, Now. This is "your time" - part of "your hour.
— M. Raymond, Now!
Prayer's value is not that it makes challenges go away,but that it changes my perception and experience within them.~ Life at First Sight: Finding the Divine in the Details
— Phyllis Edgerly Ring, Life at First Sight: Finding the Divine in the Details
Without our Spiritual nature, life's a gift we can never fully unwrap."~ With Thine Own Eyes: Why Imitate the Past, When We Can Investigate Reality?
— Ron Tomanio, Diane Iverson, Phyllis Ring
After your daily bread, if you ask God for anything, ask 'him' to make you right in the head.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
If I bad mouth the Truth, and nothing but the Absolute Truth, then, kick my butt. Otherwise, ye of bad faith, keep your stupid trap shut.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
The 'Good News' is, the messiah cometh. The bad news is, he never does.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
Truth in, untruth out. Seek thus, within-without
— Fakeer Ishavardas
Life is too short to bullshit.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
But there is no such being as an ordinary man or woman if by ordinary you mean what so many people mean: negligible. Each human being is so tremendous that he or she merits a reverence that is really religious. For each is a creation of God; each a mirror of Divinity; each a feature or a facet on the Face of Christ; each an object of constant care and concern to the Trinity. There is nothing ordinary in the sense that so many of us use that word, about any human being.
— M. Raymond
Be great. Get thy "Self". Know who you are. Beyond this body, and being. You are more than what you're seeing.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
Five acts - humility, gratitude, vegetarianism, yearning, and crying - get you "It". Have you tried it?
— Fakeer Ishavardas
The power to change comes from within and they have to want to change. Instead, be a role model and encourage by example.
— Sharon Law Tucker
If your fancied god hates those you hate, then, this bumbling idiot is as little, and as buggered, as you are, O' little one.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
God wants you to face the reasons why you separate yourself from Him. He will show you what you fear, what you need, and what you desire. He will inventory your beliefs and values, and help you line them up with His truth.
— Michael Barbarulo
To move into what God has in mind for you, it is necessary to discover your purpose, to know where you are going, and to understand the reason for your existence.
— Pedro Okoro, Crushing the Devil: Your Guide to Spiritual Warfare and Victory in Christ
The practice of cultivating altruism has a beneficial effect not only from the religious point of view but also from the mundane point of view, not only for long term spiritual development but even in terms of immediate rewards.
— Dalai Lama XIV
The sheer size, extent, and magnitude of the blood vessels tell us two things: the awesomeness of God’s work in man and the fact that as human beings, every one of us is a walking wonder, an amazing work of art.
— Pedro Okoro, Crushing the Devil: Your Guide to Spiritual Warfare and Victory in Christ
Knowledge comes by revelation through the study of the Scriptures
— Pedro Okoro
I seem to have contracted a style, yet I'm not quite sure what that style is - except that it won't let me write certain things on Facebook. I have contracted a name too it seems. And a face. And a body. And forty seven different flavors of who am I. I have a mother. I have a father. A sister. And a brother. Friends. Three dogs. A knife. A spoon. Dental Floss and a pair of fancy tight jeans. Is the world waiting for me to save it? What is this thing called World anyway and who was it told me it was false but that I should work like hell to save it? Purifying forty seven flavors of who am I. I've no idea what this means or even if it's allowed on Facebook. Mother, sister, father, brother, friends, dogs - a small sharp knife with a bent point that refuses to fit in the slot. Did God come to tell me She is real? The world false? Did Buddha? It's just an ordinary Wednesday night and I seem to have contracted a style - and a name - and a body - but when I look for the one who did, I can't seem to find him anywhere. Yet here came all these words.Good night, my friends. Sleep. Sleep like you've never slept before.
— Freddie Owens
The key for me was to have faith and trust in God to transform me. This was scary because the foundation that once kept me safe and secure was being taken from me!
— Michael Barbarulo
Quincy laughed. "If I were Elizabeth I shouldn't thank either of you for that comforting diagnosis. Would it do any good to open Aunt Sarai's grave and drive a stake through her? If you believe in as much sorcery as that, you must regret the days of witch-burners, Carew."Carew said quietly, "No. Witch-burners were barbarous blunderers. If I wanted to suppress a dangerous letter, could I do it by burning the envelope and leaving the letter loose? The witch would come back unchanged; I should merely have postponed the danger until another time and place. And have further handicapped myself to meet it, by depriving the witch, by violent death, of the years allotted her, or him, for evolution."Joseph said with dry humor, "She might not have used them for that, Carew. At least not for your idea of it."Carew shrugged. "That would be her responsibility, not mine. And, in any case, she would be that many years nearer the time of her inevitable change."This time Joseph did not answer, only smiled.
— Evangeline Walton, Witch House
It is widely unknown, but nonetheless true that Catholicism fervently promotes the 'spiritual disciplines' whereas Protestantism has largely neglected them altogether. Does 'volunteerism' facilitate the formation of Christ's character in us or rather does it reveal our level of Christ-like maturity through the work of the Holy Spirit in us? Jesus modeled son-ship and gave all of His time, shared his talents,and invested all of His treasure while affirming others as He proclaimed through demonstrations the Kingdom of God.'Christ-likeness cannot be self-efforted' (Woods, 2007)." ~R. Alan Woods [2013]
— R. Alan Woods, The Journey Is the Destination: A Book of Quotes With Commentaries