Mazes Quotes

• Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.

  Barbara Sher

  Leadership, Motivation, Real

  Barbara Sher (2010). “I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It”, p.180, Dell

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• At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.

  John Green

  Alaska, Labyrinth, Looks

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.118, Penguin

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• To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wisdom, Life Changing, Buddhism

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• There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.

  Philip K. Dick

  Inspirational, Life, Moving

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The VALIS Trilogy”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Life is like a maze in which you try to avoid the exit.

  Roger von Oech

  Inspirational, Life Is Like, Trying

  Roger Von Oech (2001). “Whack on the Side of the Head”, Mjf Books

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• Life is no straight and easy corridor along which we travel free and unhampered, but a maze of passages, through which we must seek our way, lost and confused, now and again checked in a blind alley. But always, if we have faith, a door will open for us, not perhaps one that we ourselves would ever have thought of, but one that will ultimately prove good for us

  A.J. Cronin

  Life, Faith, Religious

  "Knight's Treasury of Illustrations". Book by Walter B. Knight, p. 149, 1956.

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• It is safer to search in the maze than to remain in a cheeseless situation

  Spencer Johnson

  Life, Change, Situation

  Spencer Johnson (1998). “Who Moved My Cheese?: An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life”, p.32, Penguin

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• The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present

  Terry Brooks

  Shifting, Possibility

  Terry Brooks (2000). “The Scions of Shannara”, p.35, Del Rey

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• The path I choose through the maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing, but also a way of being--one of many ways--and knowing the paths I have followed and the ones left to take will help me understand what I am becoming.

  Daniel Keyes

  Knowing, Way, Path

  Daniel Keyes (2012). “Flowers For Algernon”, p.138, Hachette UK

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• I have thrust myself into this maze,
  Haply to wive and thrive as best I may.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, May, Thrive

  William Shakespeare, Brian Morris (1981). “The Taming of the Shrew: Second Series”, p.187, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Love, Happiness, Dream

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• Happiness ... leads none of us by the same route.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Happiness, Routes, Happiness And Love

  Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.), Charles Caleb Colton (1861). “Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.”, p.165

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• It's a lot easier to complete a maze if you start at the end.

  Dale Watson

  Easier, Ends, Ifs

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• Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

  Octavio Paz

  Men, Thinking, Mirrors

  Octavio Paz (1985). “The Labyrinth of Solitude: And the Other Mexico ; Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude ; Mexico and the United States ; The Philanthropic Ogre”, p.212, Grove Press

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• I am the Walker and the Maze.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Walkers

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• A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.

  Margaret Atwood

  Long, Rats

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.143, Random House

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• Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it, genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Success, Character, Effort

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• Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

  Gautama Buddha

  Love, Positive, Inspiring

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• Eloquence the soul, song charms the senses.

  John Milton

  Song, Soul, Charm

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. 555

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• Firmness of purpose is one of the best instruments of success.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Success, Purpose, Firmness

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• The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior.

  Earl Warren

  Character, Men, Path

  Earl Warren's Speech at the Louis Marshall Award Dinner of the Jewish Theological Seminary, Americana Hotel, New York City, November 11, 1962.

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• It was as if we were at the heart of a maze. We were overwhelmed by the enormity of the tasks ahead. Mary had given us a bottle of milk and a spoonful of loose tea, and so, unable to decide what to do, we did what all Irish men and women do: we had tea. Suddenly the sun appeared and not for the first or last time we felt it uplifting us and changing everything. It seemed like a holiday.

  Niall Williams

  Uplifting, Heart, Holiday

  Niall Williams, Christine Breen (1989). “O Come Ye Back to Ireland: Our First Year in County Clare”, Soho PressInc

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• One day I get to that spot where I've discovered the secret to the maze, and then I've got free running the rest of the way. It's a great feeling.

  Will Hobbs

  Running, Feelings, Secret

  Source: scholar.lib.vt.edu

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• Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom.

  Robert E. Howard

  Civilization, Customs, Precedence

  Robert E. Howard (2006). “Kull: Exile of Atlantis”, p.95, Del Rey

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• Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.

  Honore de Balzac

  Perfect, Looks, Literature

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.39, The Floating Press

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