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• Some things are so impossible, so fantastic, that when they happen, you are not at all surprised. Their sheer impossibility has made you imagine them too many times in your head, and when you find yourself on that longed-for moonlit path, it seems unreal but still, somehow, familiar. You dreamed of it, of course; you know it like a memory.

  Andrew Sean Greer

  Memories, Finding Yourself, Impossible

  Andrew Sean Greer (2007). “The Confessions of Max Tivoli: A Novel”, p.65, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Although we were not able to shatter that highest and hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you it has 18 million cracks in it, and the light is shining through like never before, filling us all with the hope and the sure knowledge that the path will be a little easier next time, and we are going to keep working to make it so, today keep with me and stand for me, we still have so much to do together, we made history, and lets make some more.

  Hillary Clinton

  Glasses, Light, Shining

  "Is it sexist to talk about Hillary Clinton's age?" by David Frum, www.cnn.com. April 21, 2014.

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• To let God make us, instead of painfully trying to make ourselves; to follow the path that his love shows us, instead of through conceit or cowardice or mockery choosing another; to trust Him for our strength and fitness as the flowers do, simply giving ourselves back to Him in grateful service,—this is to keep the laws that give us the freedom of the city in which there is no longer any night of bewilderment or ignorance or uncertainty.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Flower, Grateful, Ignorance

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2008). “A Country Doctor”, p.238, Bantam Classics

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• A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor. Yet soon or late in every man's life comes a day when it is not easy, a day when he must choose. (Maester Aemon)

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Brave, Honor

  George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One”, p.671, Bantam

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• His love for her was a gift he gave her daily, expecting nothing in return. He walked at her side, his love for her a torch to guide her footsteps along the dark path she walked.

  Margaret Weis

  Dark, Torches, Love For Her

  Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman (2011). “Dragons of a Fallen Sun: War of Souls Trilogy, Volume One”, p.34, Wizards of the Coast

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• Seeker of truth follow no path all paths lead where truth is here.

  e. e. cummings

  Truth Is, Truth Seekers, Seekers

  "73 poems (3)". Book by E. E. Cummings, 1962.

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• May Starclan light your path.

  Erin Hunter

  Light, May, Starclan

  Erin Hunter (2015). “Warriors: Mapleshade's Vengeance”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• Along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox—the single most worthy path of the fearless mind . . . .

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Lying, Knives, Fearless

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (2007). “We”, p.103, Modern Library

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• Love can't mature in one room. It has to come out of the full sharing of everything: joys, aspirations, downfalls, all of it. That's the only real path to love.

  Leon Uris

  Real, Joy, Rooms

  Leon Uris (1977). “Trinity”

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• 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

  Tolerance, Finishing, Opal

  Eoin Colfer (2014). “Artemis Fowl:”, p.459, Penguin UK

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• For I am Saruman the Wise, Saruman Ring-maker, Saruman of Many Colours!' I looked then and saw that his robes, which had seemed white, were not so, but were woven of all colours, and if he moved they shimmered and changed hue so that the eye was bewildered. I liked white better,' I said. White!' he sneered. 'It serves as a beginning. White cloth may be dyed. The white page can be overwritten; and the white light can be broken.' In which case it is no longer white,' said I. 'And he that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.' - Gandalf

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Wise, Eye, Light

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.187, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No pictorial or sculptural combinations of points of human loveliness, do more than approach the living and breathing human beauty as it gladdens our daily path.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Breathing, Combination, Approach

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “The Works of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

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• The straight path must sometimes be crooked.

  Carole Wilkinson

  Sometimes, Crooked, Straight Path

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• One thing: you have to walk, and create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path. It is not so cheap, to reach to the ultimate realization of truth. You will have to create the path by walking yourself; the path is not ready-made, lying there and waiting for you. It is just like the sky: the birds fly, but they don't leave any footprints. You cannot follow them; there are no footprints left behind.

  Rajneesh

  Lying, Healing, Sky

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• You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice. If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill. I will choose a path thats clear. I will choose Freewill.

  Neil Peart

  Fear, Kindness, Voice

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• All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phantoms of the mind that walk in darkness; and though he had seen many spectres in his time, and been more than once beset by Satan in divers shapes, in his lonely pre-ambulations, yet daylight put an end to all these evils; and he would have passed a pleasent life of it, in despite of the devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity to mortal man than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put together, and that was - a woman.

  Washington Irving

  Lonely, Night, Men

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• To THINK BIG and to use our talents doesn't mean we won't have difficulties along the way. We will - we all do... If we choose to see the obstacles in our path as barriers, we stop trying. "We can't win," we moan. "They won't let us win."

  Benjamin Carson

  Mean, Winning, Thinking

  "Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story". Book by Benjamin Carson, 1990.

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• From the bottom of my heart, I wanted to give up; I wanted to give up on living. There was no denying that tomorrow would come, and the day after tomorrow, and so next week, too. I never thought it would be this hard, but I would go on living in the midst of a glomy depression, and that made me feel sick to the depths of my soul. In spite of the tempest raging within me, I walked the night path calmly.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Giving Up, Heart, Night

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.48, Grove Press

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• And we passed through the cavern of rats. And we passed through the path of boiling steam. And we passed through the country of the blind. And we passed through the slough of despond. And we passed through the vale of tears. And we came, finally, to the ice caverns.

  Harlan Ellison

  Country, Ice, Tears

  Drew Ford, Harlan Ellison (2016). “Grave Predictions: Tales of Mankind’s Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian and Disastrous Destiny”, p.83, Courier Dover Publications

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• He gave me heaven and earth, and assumed I'd be satisfied; Actually I was too embarrassed to argue. The spiritual seekers are tired, two or three at each stage of the path. The rest who have given up never knew your address at all. There are so many in this gathering who wish the candle well. But if the being of the candle is melting, what can the sorrow-sharers do?

  Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

  Spiritual, Tired, Two

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• I was remembering the things we had done together, the times we had had. It would have been pleasant to preserve that comradeship in the days that came after. Pleasant, but alas, impossible. That which had brought us together had gone, and now our paths diverged, according to our natures and needs. We would meet again, from time to time, but always a little more as strangers; until perhaps at last, as old men with only memories left, we could sit together and try to share them.

  John Christopher

  Memories, Men, Trying

  John Christopher (2013). “The Pool of Fire”, p.134, Simon and Schuster

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• I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep. You may have heard of me.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Song, Kings, Princess

  "The Name of the Wind". Book by Patrick Rothfuss, March 27, 2007.

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• Clambering up the Cold Mountain path, The Cold Mountain trail goes on and on: The long gorge choked with scree and boulders, The wide creek, the mist-blurred grass. The moss is slippery, though there's been no rain The pine sings, but there's no wind. Who can leap the world's ties And sit with me among the white clouds?

  Gary Snyder

  Rain, Clouds, Wind

  Gary Snyder (2010). “Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems”, p.46, Counterpoint Press

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• When you choose the path, you choose the destination.

  Glenn Beck

  Destination, You Choose

  Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe, Jason Wright (2008). “The Christmas Sweater”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

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• Hindsight, I think, is a useless tool. We, each of us, are at a place in our lives because of innumerable circumstances, and we, each of us, have a responsibility (if we do not like where we are) to move along life's road, to find a better path if this one does not suit, or to walk happily along this one if it is indeed our life's way. Changing even the bad things that have gone before would fundamentally change who we are, and whether or not that would be a good thing, I believe, it is impossible to predict. So I take my past experiences... and try to regret nothing. -Drizzt Do'urden

  R. A. Salvatore

  Regret, Believe, Moving

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