“When we are walking our chosen path, we walk elegantly, emanating light.”
Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra
Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), About Elegance
“When we are walking our chosen path, we walk elegantly, emanating light.”
Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra
Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), About Elegance
Roger A. Caras (1928–2001) American photographer
Gracie Allen (1902–1964) American actress and comedienne
Source: How to Become President (1940), Ch. 1 : Government jobs pay big money
Context: As we walk hand in hand through the pathways of knowledge, remember that I am giving you freely and without stint the full accumulation of my two months’ experience as a candidate. I have on file a complete record of everything I’ve said and done. Ever since I threw my hat in the ring I have had myself shadowed, and the results were very entertaining. The things that go on in those back rooms, you wouldn’t believe.
So now we begin our journey together. If you follow these instructions carefully, you will find that every step of your progress, like the path that climbs up and up from the sheltered valley, offers you an ever-wider and more facinating vista, until at last you come out upon the summit of the wrong hill.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924–2018) 10th Prime Minister of India
Vajpayee addresses the nation on Independence Day in 2002. Quoted from Vajpayee No More: Here Are His Five Most Powerful Quotes https://swarajyamag.com/insta/vajpayee-no-more-here-are-his-five-most-powerful-quotes Swaraja, Aug 16 2018
“Every walk we take offers subjects for profound meditation”
Gideon Mantell (1790–1852) British scientist and obstetrician
The Medals of Creation or First Lessons in Geology (1854)
Context: Every walk we take offers subjects for profound meditation,—every pebble that attracts our notice, matter for serious reflection; and contemplating the incessant dissolution and renovation which are taking place around us in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature, we are struck by the force and beauty of the exclamation of the poet—
"My heart is awed within me, when I think
Of the great miracle which still goes on
In silence round me—the perpetual work
Of Thy Creation, finished, yet renewed
For ever!"
“We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne book The Scarlet Letter
Source: The Scarlet Letter
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Source: I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World
“Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learnt to walk.”
Cyril Connolly book The Unquiet Grave
Part I: Ecce Gubernator (p. 23)
The Unquiet Grave (1944)