Quotes about path
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“If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them — not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.”

Anne Brontë book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. III : A Controversy; Gilbert to Helen

World, Learning

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

Anthony Robbins (1960) Author, actor, professional speaker

Success, Motivational, Success

“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.”

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature

Dreams, Sleep

“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.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Life, Happiness, Heart

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

Azar Nafisi book Reading Lolita in Tehran

Source: Reading Lolita in Tehran

Memory

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

Robin S. Sharma (1965) Canadian self help writer

Source: The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life

Parting

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

Audre Lorde (1934–1992) writer and activist

Feeling, 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.”

Jim Butcher book Changes

Source: Changes

Love, Light

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

André Gide (1869–1951) French novelist and essayist

Smile, Flowers, Sun

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

Charlaine Harris book Club Dead

Source: Club Dead

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

Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss

Source: Shadow Kiss

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

Seamus Heaney (1939–2013) Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer

Source: Beowulf

People

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

Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer

Source: Simply Irresistible

Travel

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

David Baldacci book The Simple Truth

Source: The Simple Truth

Life, Dependency, Personality

“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.”

Woody Allen book Mere Anarchy

"My Speech to the Graduates"
Side Effects (1980)
Variant: Mankind is facing a crossroad - one road leads to despair and utter hopelessness and the other to total extinction - I sincerely hope you graduates choose the right road
Source: Mere Anarchy

Wisdom, History, Time, Despair

“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.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Of Love and Other Demons

Source: Of Love and Other Demons

Fate

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

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

God, Reading

“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.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: The Story of Us

Books, Thinking

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

Jack Kerouac Book of Haikus

Source: Book of Haikus

Winter

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

Robert Greene book The 48 Laws of Power

Source: The 48 Laws of Power

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

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Retribution

Tear, Cry

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

Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) French poet

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

Stephen King (1947) American author

“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.”

Robert E. Howard (1906–1936) American author

"Beyond the Black River" (1935)
Context: "There's nothing in the universe cold steel won't cut," answered Conan. "I threw my ax at the demon, and he took no hurt, but I might have missed in the dusk, or a branch deflected its flight. 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."

Way

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

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

“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)”

Sophie Kinsella book Twenties Girl

Source: Twenties Girl

Life

“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.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi

Source: Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

God, People

“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.”

Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002) American evolutionary biologist

Way, History, Freedom, Suffering

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

Natsumi Ando (1970) Manga artist

Source: Kitchen Princess, Vol. 05

Dreams, Parent

“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!”

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) American feminist, writer, commercial artist, lecturer and social reformer

Source: The Yellow Wall-Paper

Time

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

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

God

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

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

Understanding

“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.”

Diana Gabaldon book Written in My Own Heart's Blood

Source: Written in My Own Heart's Blood

Life

“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 book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Variant: It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Feeling, Thinking

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

Frank Herbert book God Emperor of Dune

Source: God Emperor of Dune

People, Thinking

“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.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: United We Spy

“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.”

Nikolas Schreck American musician and writer

Life

“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.”

Brian Jacques (1939–2011) British fiction writer known for Redwall animal fantasy novels

Happiness, Travel, Season

“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.”

Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer

Love, World, Way

“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.”

Agatha Christie book The Hound of Death

Source: The Hound of Death

Love, World, Law, Mother's Day

“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?”

Kenneth Patchen (1911–1972) American writer and poet

Thinking, Parting

“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.”

Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer

Source: When God Whispers Your Name

Life, Past

“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.”

Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer

Life

“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.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

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

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Virgin Suicides

Source: The Virgin Suicides

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.”

Thomas Hardy book Far from the Madding Crowd

Source: Far from the Madding Crowd

Love, Marriage, People, Way

“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?”

Scott Westerfeld book Behemoth

Source: Behemoth

Tear, Help, Madness

“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.”

Chögyam Trungpa (1939–1987) Tibetan Buddhist lama and writer

Source: The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation

“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.”

Hannah Hurnard book Hinds' Feet on High Places

Source: Hinds' Feet on High Places

Thinking, Tear, Time, Heart

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

Melissa de la Cruz (1971) American writer

Soul, Heart

“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.”

Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer

Source: The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work

Way

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

Chris Wooding book Poison

Source: Poison

Way

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

Anne Taintor (1953) American artist

Men

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

Jeanette Winterson book Sexing the Cherry

Source: Sexing the Cherry (1989)

“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.”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

Source: The Son of Neptune

Peace

“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.”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi

Way, Dependency

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

Mary Stewart book The Crystal Cave

Source: The Crystal Cave

God, 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.”

Barbara Kingsolver (1955) American author, poet and essayist

Soul

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

John Burroughs (1837–1921) American naturalist and essayist

Learning

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

Elizabeth Gilbert Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Source: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Failure, Success

“Paths that cross will cross again.”

Patti Smith Just Kids

Source: Just Kids

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

Charles Frazier book Cold Mountain

Source: Cold Mountain

Life

“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.”

Haruki Murakami book The Strange Library

Source: The Strange Library

World

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

Joanne Harris book Chocolat

Source: Chocolat

Cats, Singing, Dance

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

Frank Herbert book Dune

Source: Dune

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

Tim McGraw (1967) American country singer

Variant: We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everyhwere.

Life

“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.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

Thinking

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

Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

Way

“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.”

William Golding book Lord of the Flies

Source: Lord of the Flies

Life, Understanding, Parting

“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.”

Dan Brown book Angels & Demons

Source: Angels & Demons

Angels, Light

“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.”

Allison DuBois (1972) American psychic

People

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

Yoshiki Nakamura (1969) Artist

Source: Skip Beat!, Vol. 02

“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.”

Seth Godin (1960) American entrepreneur, author and public speaker

"Competition as a crutch" http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2012/07/competition-as-a-crutch.html Seth's Blog (2012-07-16) <br class="br">Source: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

Way, Problem

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

Richard Rohr (1943) American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest

Source: Things Hidden: Scripture as Spirituality

Peace

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

Marcus Sedgwick (1968) British writer and illustrator

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

Edward Gorey (1925–2000) American writer, artist, and illustrator

Source: The Evil Garden

Madness

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

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

3
73 poems (1963)

Truth

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

Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the Rock

Source: Finnikin of the Rock

Life, Dreams, Parting

“[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.”

Gustavo Gutiérrez (1928) Peruvian theologian

Source: A Theology of Liberation

“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.”

Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator

Freedom, Reading

“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.”

Tom Robbins Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

Source: Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

Beauty, Star, Passion, Future

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

Robert Jordan The Path of Daggers

Seanchan saying
(15 September 1992)
Source: The Path of 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.”

Hans Urs Von Balthasar (1905–1988) Swedish Catholic theologian

Source: Unless You Become Like This Child

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

Lloyd Alexander book Westmark

Source: Westmark

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

George Lucas (1944) American film producer

Source: Star Wars - Episode I: The Phantom Menace

Hate, Fear, Suffering, Anger

“The obstacle is the path.”

Sara Shepard (1973) Author

Source: Unbelievable

“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.”

Dean Koontz Odd Thomas

Source: Odd Thomas

Fate

“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.”

Bell Hooks book All About Love: New Visions

Source: All About Love: New Visions

Love, 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…”

Jack Kerouac book Big Sur

Big Sur (1962)

Love, Life, Way, Girl

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

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher

Happiness, People, Spring

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

Anatole France (1844–1924) French writer

Beauty, Beauty

“Everything depends on which path you take.”

Paulo Coelho book Brida

Source: Brida

Dependency

“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.”

Neal Stephenson (1959) American science fiction writer

Source: The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

People, Way

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

Lisa Unger (1970) American author

Truth, Courage, Universe

“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.”

Alethea Kontis (1976) American writer

Source: Enchanted

Fools, Angels, Knowledge

“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!”

Karen Marie Moning book To Tame a Highland Warrior

Source: To Tame a Highland Warrior

Love, Hell, Fight, Relationship

“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.”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

Source: The Time Paradox

Peace, Forgiveness

“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.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

Past

“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.”

Jen Lancaster (1967) American writer

Source: Bright Lights, Big Ass: A Self-Indulgent, Surly, Ex-Sorority Girl's Guide to Why It Often Sucks in the City, or Who Are These Idiots and Why Do They All Live Next Door to Me?

“… 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.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Mine Till Midnight

World

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