Quotes about path

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“The path to success is to take massive, determined action.”

“You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.”

“I want you to be happy, and him to be happy. And yet when you walk that aisle to meet him and join yourselves forever you will walk an invisible path of the shards of my heart Tessa. I would give over my own life for either of yours.”

“I am suddenly left alone again on the sunny path, with a memory of the rain.”

“Getting lost along your path is a part of finding the path you are meant to be on.”

“Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.”

“Whatever you do, do it for love. If you keep to that, your path will never wander so far from the light that you can never return.”

“I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.”

“Sometimes, instead of going down the road less taken, you just charge down the beaten path.”

“You aren't afraid of throwing yourself in the path of danger, but you're terrified of letting anyone in.”

“Behaviour that's admired
is the path to power among people everywhere.”

“I chose the path less traveled but only because I was lost. Carry a map. - Phoebe Traeger”

“Depending on the situation, sometimes you can know a person better in ten minutes than someone you have crossed paths with all your life.”

“More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.”

“When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, I reach my end, for artless I surrendered to one who is my undoing and my end.”

“God has a prepared path for us to follow. We just have to read the omens he has left for us.”

“Stories took twists and turns down fairy-tale paths or down very human everyday ones. You think you’re at the end of the book, and it’s only the end of a chapter.”

“February dawn -- frost
on the path
Where I paced all winter.”

“The mighty lion toys with the mouse that crosses his path—any other reaction would mar his fearsome reputation.”

“My ma used to say that crying is good for you. Tears are the path that free your mind of sorrowful thoughts.”

“We revel in the laxness of the path we take.”

“Go now. Our journey is done. And may we meet again, in the clearing, at the end of the path.”

“I'm not going out of my way looking for devils; but I wouldn't step out of my path to let one go by.”

“I'll succeed,' Hazel promised. 'And Hecate? I'm not choosing one of your paths. I'm making my own.”

“Life takes us on different paths… It's not up to us to evaluate or judge them, merely respect and embrace them.
(Lara Lington - to Sadie Lancaster)”

“We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our paths and canceling our plans by sending us people with claims and petitions.”

“We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most diverse and interesting of conceivable universes—one indifferent to our suffering, and therefore offering us maximum freedom to thrive, or to fail, in our own chosen way.”

“Even if I'm following the path my parents set, I need to take my own dreams and beliefs with me.”

“Now why should that man have fainted? But he did, and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!”

“God has prepared a path for everyone to follow.”

“Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.”

“Thy life’s journey lies along its own path, Ian,” she said, “and I cannot share thy journey—but I can walk beside thee. And I will.”

“It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think yours is the only path.”

“Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.”

“So I stepped away, reminding myself that when you're a spy, sometimes all you can do is go on. One foot in front of the other, wherever the narrow path might lead.”

“If you are drawn to the left hand path, it's usually because you've had some kind of life experience that has shocked you, awakened you.”

“your lives be as full and happy as ours, and may the seasons be kind to you and your friends. The door of our Abbey is always open to any travellers roaming the dusty path between the woodlands and the plains.”

“Over the years they both reached the same wise conclusion by different paths: it was not possible to live together in any other way, or love in any other way, and nothing in this world was more difficult than love.”

“A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.”

“Come now, my child, if we were planning to harm you, do you think we'd be lurking here beside the path in the very darkest part of the forest?”

“The past does not have to be your prison. You have a voice in your destiny. You have a say in your life. You have a choice in the path you take.”

“When I was six I had a chicken that walked backward and was in the Pathe News. I was in it too with the chicken. I was just there to assist the chicken but it was the high point in my life. Everything since has been anticlimax.”

“Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.”

“Their desire was silent yet magnificent, like a thousand daisies attuning their faces toward the path of the sun.”

“It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out
of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a
short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.”

“Lilt pulled away. "I saw what he was doing, so I cleared a path for him. I helped him do it…" She shook her head, tears tracking the dust off her face, and turned to stare at the fallen tower. "Have we all gone mad to want this?”

“We must begin our practice by walking the narrow path of simplicity, the hinayana path, before we can walk upon the open highway of compassionate action, the mahayana path.”

“The heart knoweth its own sorrow and there are times when, like David, it is comforting to think that our tears are put in a bottle and not one of them forgotten by the one who leads us in paths of sorrow.”

“Who knew that the path to a womans heart was through the soul of an honest man?”

“You enter the forest
at the darkest point,
where there is no path.

Where there is a way or path,
it is someone else's path.

You are not on your own path.

If you follow someone else's way,
you are not going to realize
your potential.”

“Cynicism was a one-way path, and once taken the way back was lost forever.”

“She threw herself eagerly into the paths of unsuitable men.”

“Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle.”

“You do the easy thing, the appealing thing, the peaceful thing, mostly it turns sour in the end. But if you take the hard path - ah, that's how you reap the sweet rewards. Duty. Sacrifice. They mean something.”

“The paths to liberation are numerous, but the bank along the way is always the same, the Bank of Karma, where the liberation account of each of us is credited or debited depending on our actions.”

“The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage.”

“I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.”

“To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.”

“You can measure your worth by your dedication to your path, not by your successes or failures.”

“Paths that cross will cross again.”

“[No] matter what a waste one has made of one's life, it is ever possible to find some path to redemption, however partial.”

“The world follows its own course. Each possesses his own thoughts, each treads his own path. So it is with your mother, and so it is with your starling. As it is with everyone. The world follows its own course.”

“A black cat crossed my path, and I stopped to dance around it widdershins and to sing the rhyme”

“And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.”

“We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each othereverywhere.”

“I don’t know what I’m doing in the next five minutes and she has the next ten years figured out. I’ll worry about making it out of ninth grade alive. Then I’ll think about a career path.”

“It could have happened lots of ways. But this is the way it happened. This is the path we took. This is our story.”

“He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet.”

“From Santi's earthly tomb with demon's hole,
'Cross Rome the mystic elements unfold.
The path of light is laid, the sacred test,
Let angels guide you on your lofty quest.”

“If you let people break your spirit and detour you from your path, then you have not been true to yourself or those you're here to touch, those who believe in you.”

“If you get stuck to the committed path then…
this wall has to be..
KNOCKED DOWN!!”

“The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.”

“there is no path to peace, but peace itself is the path.”

“A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood.”

“Some tiny creature, mad with wrath, is coming nearer on the path.”

“seeker of truth
follow no path
all paths lead where
truth is here”

“he knew that a part of his life was complete and that whatever path he chose, he would experience the ache of unfulfilled dreams.”

“[Neighbor is] not he whom I find in my path, but rather he in whose path I place myself, he whom I approach and actively seek.”

“taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path.”

“Would you complain because a beautiful sunset doesn't have a future or a shooting star a payoff? And why should romance 'lead anywhere'? Passion isn't a path through the woods. Passionthe woods.”

“On the heights, the paths are paved with daggers.”

“It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.”

“I intend to follow the path of virtue. It will not be overcrowded.”

“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”

“The obstacle is the path.”

“Fate isn’t one straight road…there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.”

“Choosing to be honest is the first step in the process of love. There is no practitioner of love who deceives. Once the choice has been made to be honest, then the next step on love's path is communication.”

“Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH…”

“Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.”

“If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.”

“Everything depends on which path you take.”

“Which path do you intend to take, Nell?' said the Constable, sounding very interested. 'Conformity or rebellion?'
Neither one. Both ways are simple-minded - they are only for people who cannot cope with contradiction and ambiguity.”

“The universe conspires to reveal the truth and to make your path easy if you have the courage to follow the signs.”

“We are all fools blessed with the knowledge that certain events will come to pass no matter what path we take to get there. The wise ones follow their angels while they may.”

“That's weak! You don't know what caring is… Caring is love. And love fights! Love doesn't look for the path of least resistance. Hell's bells, Roderick, if love was that easy everyone would have it. You're a coward!”

“Humm humm haaa. Rahmumm humm haaaa," intoned Opal, finishing her chant. "Peace be inside me, tolerance all around me, forgiveness in my path. Now, Mervall, show me where the filthy human is so that I may feed him his organs.”

“I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will point to your final destination.”

“I yearn to be a woman of more depth, but I'm not so fond of the path I'd need to follow to get there.”

“… whether he stayed or left, whether they walked the same path or not. They could live on opposite sides of the world, and she would still be his.”