Following Your Own Path Quotes

• One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

  Blaise Pascal

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Discovery

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest.
  Always do what you are afraid to do.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Stars, Fear

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• Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.

  Joseph Campbell

  Steps, Bliss, Finding Your Path

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• Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us; the labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; and where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Hero, Adventure

  "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" by Joseph Campbell, New World Library, (Ch. 1), 2008.

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• If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Government, Bed, Want

  Speech to luncheon clubs, Galveston, Texas, December 8, 1949, The New York Times, p. 23, December 9, 1949,.

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• You are responsible for the world that you live in. It is not government's responsibility. It is not your school's or your social club's or your church's or your neighbor's or your fellow citizen's. It is yours, utterly and singularly yours.

  August Wilson

  School, Responsibility, Government

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• A person's wound is where their passion is born.

  Marilyn Hamilton

  Teaching, Passion, Personality

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• Is it sufficient that you have learned to drive the car, or shall you look and see what is under the hood? Most people go through life without ever knowing.

  June Singer

  Being Yourself, Knowing, People

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• If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Personality, Shows, Havens

  Zora Neale Hurston (1969). “Dust tracks on a road”

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• After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Happiness, Real, Personality

  Evelyn Underhill, Carol Poston (2010). “The Making of a Mystic: New and Selected Letters of Evelyn Underhill”, p.273, University of Illinois Press

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• If the horse you're drawing looks more like a dog, make it a dog.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Dog, Horse, Drawing

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• [T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.

  William James

  Differences, Personality, Important

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• I am never afraid of what I know.

  Anna Sewell

  Healing, Personality, Intellectual

  Anna Sewell (1895). “Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse”, p.145

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• An artist is a person who has invented an artist.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Artist, Intellectual, Intelligence

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• The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery.

  Seymour Papert

  Teaching, Discovery, Benefits

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• While "cute" is hopelessly anchored to the Teletubby ideal, "ugly" is free to take infinite varieties. In this way, ugly is beautiful.

  Jim Toomey

  Cute, Beautiful, Ugly

  Jim Toomey (1999). “Poodle The Other White Meat: A Sherman's Lagoon Collection”, p.4, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Life is not a multiple choice test, it's an open-book essay exam.

  Alan Blinder

  Book, Teaching, Multiple Choice

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• It is impossible for anyone to be responsible for another person's behavior. The most you or any leader can do is to encourage each one to be responsible for himself.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Teaching, Leader, Impossible

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• It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

  George H. W. Bush

  Funny, Stupid, Patriotic

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