Path Quotes - Page 28

• All paths are present, always... and we can but choose among them.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Philosophy

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• Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.' Say not, ' I have found the path of the soul.' Say rather, 'I have met the soul walking upon my path.' For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Journey

  Khalil Gibran, “Self-Knowledge XVII”

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• Paths are made by walking

  Franz Kafka

  Made, Walking

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• And so I learned that familiar paths traced in the dusk of summer evenings may lead as well to prison as to innocent untroubled sleep.

  Albert Camus

  Summer, Sleep, May

  Albert Camus (1982). “The stranger”

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• Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Friendship, Kindness, Heart

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• At Tara in this fateful hour, I place all Heaven with its power, And the sun with its brightness, And the snow with its whiteness, And the fire with all the strength it hath, And the lightning with its rapid wrath, And the winds with their swiftness along their path, And the sea with its deepness, And the rocks with their steepness, And the earth with its starkness: All these I place, By God's almighty help and grace Between myself and the powers of darkness!

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Fire, Wrath, Rocks

  FaceBook post by Madeleine L'Engle from Nov 14, 2015

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• An ash-gray dog with a white blaze on its forehead burst onto the rough terrain of the market on the first Sunday in December, knocked down tables of fried food, overturned Indians' stalls and lottery kiosks, and bit four people who happened to cross its path.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Dog, Sunday, White

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• Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness, and keeping all the commandments of God.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Happiness, Design, Faithful

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• And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal in their own separate orbits. From far off they look like beautiful shooting stars, but in reality they're nothing more than prisons, where each of us is locked up alone, going nowhere. When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for the briefest moment. In the next instant we'd be in absolute solitude. Until we burned up and became nothing.

  Haruki Murakami

  Beautiful, Lonely, Stars

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Aug 06, 2014

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• He continued on, on to the glacier, towards the dawn, from ridge to ridge, in deep, new-fallen snow, paying no heed to the storms that might pursue him. As a child he had stood by the seashore at Ljósavík and watched the waves soughing in and out, but now he was heading away from the sea. "Think of me when you are in glorious sunshine." Soon the sun of the day of resurrection will shine on the bright paths where she awaits her poet. And beauty shall reign alone.

  Halldór Laxness

  Children, Sunshine, Thinking

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• Meanwhile it's got stormy, the tattered fog even thicker, chasing across my path. Three people are sitting in a glassy tourist cafe between clouds and clouds, protected by glass from all sides. Since I don't see any waiters, it crosses my mind that corpses have been sitting there for weeks, statuesque. All this time the cafe has been unattended, for sure. Just how long have they been sitting here, petrified like this?

  Werner Herzog

  Fog, Clouds, Glasses

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• To travel a circle is to journey over the same ground time and time again. To travel a circle wisely is to journey over the same ground for the first time. In this way, the ordinary becomes extraordinary, and the circle, a path to where you wish to be. And when you notice at last that the path has circled back into itself, you realize that where you wish to be is where you have already been ... and always were.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Wise, Time

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• The greater evil who is in- When both in wayward paths are straying? The poor sinner for the pain Or he who pays for the sin?

  Juana Inés de la Cruz

  Pain, Evil, Pay

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• The world is so much larger than I thought. I thought we went along paths--but it seems there are no paths. The going itself is the path.

  C. S. Lewis

  World, Seems

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Perelandra”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• No, a true seeker, one who truly wished to find, could accept no doctrine. But the man who has found what he sought, such a man could approve of every doctrine, each and every one, every path, every goal; nothing separated him any longer from all those thousands of others who lived in the eternal, who breathed the Divine.

  Hermann Hesse

  Men, Goal, Siddhartha

  Hermann Hesse, Stanley Appelbaum (1998). “Siddhartha”, p.60, Courier Corporation

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• I felt like a rich vagabond who had passed through the world paving my way with gold fairy dust, then realizing too late that the path disintegrated as soon as I passed over it.

  Amy Tan

  Dust, Gold, Vagabonds

  Amy Tan (2005). “Saving Fish from Drowning”, p.18, Penguin

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• Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, "Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world?" neither intolerable nor everlasting - if thou bearest in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination. Pain is either an evil to the body (then let the body say what it thinks of it!)-or to the soul. But it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity and tranquility. . . .

  Marcus Aurelius

  Pain, Attitude, Thinking

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• Show us not the aim without the way. For ends and means on earth are so entangled That changing one, you change the other too; Each different path brings other ends in view

  Arthur Koestler

  Mean, Views, Different

  Arthur Koestler (2015). “Darkness at Noon”, p.247, Simon and Schuster

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• And for a moment, I understand that I have friends on this lonely path; that sometimes your place is not something you find, but something you have when you need it.

  Libba Bray

  Lonely, Needs, Sometimes

  Libba Bray (2010). “Rebel Angels”, p.376, Simon and Schuster

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• He thought of the number of girls and women she had seen marry, how many homes with children in them she had seen grow up around her, how she had contentedly pursued her own lone quite path-for him. ~ Stephen speaking of Rachael

  Charles Dickens

  Girl, Children, Growing Up

  Charles Dickens (2001). “Hard Times”, p.61, Courier Corporation

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• We're straying from the path of salvation because we remember that we once belonged to the world and were content in that belonging.

  Daniel Quinn

  World, Remember, Salvation

  Daniel Quinn (2010). “The Story of B”, p.325, Bantam

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• Selfishly, perhaps, Catti-brie had determined that the assassin was her own business. He had unnerved her, had stripped away years of training and discipline and reduced her to the quivering semblance of a frightened child. But she was a young woman now, no more a girl. She had to personally respond to that emotional humiliation, or the scars from it would haunt her to her grave, forever paralyzing her along her path to discover her true potential in life.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Girl, Children, Emotional

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• Interior of the hand. Sole that has come to walk only on feelings. That faces upward and in its mirror receives heavenly roads, which travel along themselves. That has learned to walk upon water when it scoops, that walks upon wells, transfiguring every path. That steps into other hands, changes those that are like it into a landscape: wanders and arrives within them, fills them with arrival.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Hands, Mirrors, Water

  Rainer Maria Rilke, “Palm”

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• [Our] first and foremost duty [is] to seek the Lord until we open the path of communication from God to our own soul.

  Brigham Young

  Communication, Soul, Firsts

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• Utopia is the process of making a better world, the name for one path history can take, a dynamic, tumultuous, agonizing process, with no end. Struggle forever.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Struggle, Names, Forever

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2013). “Pacific Edge: Three Californias”, p.95, Macmillan

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