Path Quotes - Page 37

• You will find the way, daughter of the forest. Through grief and pain, through many trials, through betrayal and loss, your feet will walk a straight path.

  Juliet Marillier

  Daughter, Pain, Betrayal

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.58, Macmillan

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• There may be troubled waters along the many paths my life shall take, but only I as a man, may keep my vessel afloat, and guide myself straight.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Life, Perseverance, Men

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• it is only courage on the path itself that makes the path appear

  Paulo Coelho

  Paulo Coelho (2015). “Stories for Parents, Children and Grandchildren -”, p.51, Booklassic

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• We are here because over billions of years, countless variables fell into place, any of which could have taken another path. We are essentially a beautiful fluke, as are the millions of other species with which we share this planet. Our cells are composed of atoms and dust particles from distant galaxies, and from the billions of living organisms that inhabited this planet before us.

  Wendy Mass

  Beautiful, Taken, Cells

  Wendy Mass (2010). “Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life”, p.109, Hachette UK

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• 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

  Hands, Left Hand, Kind

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• It is difficult to walk at one and the same time many paths of life.

  Pythagoras

  Time, Difficult, Walks

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• We're lucky Esme thought to add an extra room. No one was planning for Ness-Renesmee." I frowned at him, my thoughts channeled down a less pleasant path. "Not you too," I complained. "Sorry, love. I hear it in their thoughts all the time, you know. It's rubbing off on me. I sighed. My baby, the sea serpent. Maybe there was no help for it. Well, I wasn't giving in.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Baby, Sorry, Sea

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• The problem [with genetic research] is, we're just starting down this path, feeling our way in the dark. We have a small lantern in the form of a gene, but the lantern doesn't penetrate more than a couple of hundred feet. We don't know whether we're going to encounter chasms, rock walls or mountain ranges along the way. We don't even know how long the path is.

  Francis Collins

  Couple, Wall, Dark

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• Sometimes we make decisions because it seems to be the only path visible at the moment. It's only later that we see there was more than one path, but the others were blocked from our vision at the time. That's the thing with hindsight, you see. Even if you can see it clearly, there's no going back. It's at that point we need to turn around and stare ahead and make a new life.

  Karen White

  Decision, Vision, New Life

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• There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Destiny, Achievement, Finals

  Ramana (Maharshi) (1959). “Collected Works”

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• Put no obstacle in her path and this will surely die a natural death; obstruct her, and it will give the situation an importance to worth fighting for.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Fighting, Giving, Obstacles

  Alexandra Adornetto (2010). “Halo”, p.117, Macmillan

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• Where he had failed, I would triumph. Where he had lost his way, I would find the path out of the labyrinth.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Labyrinth, Triumph, Way

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• On some nights, he has nowhere to sleep, on others he suffers from insomnia. "That's just how it is," thinks the warrior. "I was the one who chose to walk this path."

  Paulo Coelho

  Sleep, Warrior, Night

  "The Manual of the Warrior of Light". Book by Paulo Coelho, 1997.

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• After a short silence the doctor raised himself a little in his chair and asked if Tarrou had an idea of the path to follow for attaining peace. "Yes, he replied. "The path of sympathy.

  Albert Camus

  Doctors, Ideas, Silence

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• I understand perfectly. Darquesse isn't a separate entity. She isn't another person. She's you. If you make the wrong choices, if you stop loving the people who love you, if you allow the world to twist and turn and change you, then yes, the future we've seen will come to pass. But if you fight, and if you kick, and struggle, and refuse to give in to the apathy, or the anger, or the hopelessness, then you'll change the future, and you'll walk your own path. And I'll be right there beside you, Valkyrie. I'll always be beside you.

  Derek Landy

  Struggle, Love You, Fighting

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• He sees the land of meaning, and one path to it, and the so-called “normal” people traveling swiftly and in comfort to the land; he does not include the shipwrecked people who arrive by devious lonely routes, and the many who dwell in the land in the beginning.

  Janet Frame

  Lonely, Land, People

  Janet Frame (1980). “Faces in the water”

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• Often a star was waiting for you to notice it. A wave rolled toward you out of the distant path, or as you walked under an open window, a violin yielded itself to your hearing. All this was mission.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Stars, Waiting, Violin

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual Language Edition”, p.3, Vintage

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• You must take care to light the matches one at a time. If a powerful emotion should ignite them all at once, they would produce a splendor so dazzling that it would illuminate far beyond what we can normally see; and then a brilliant tunnel would appear before our eyes, revealing the path we forgot the moment we were born, and summoning us to regain the divine origins we had lost. The soul ever longs to return to the place from which it came, leaving the body lifeless.

  Laura Esquivel

  Powerful, Eye, Tunnels

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• There was a smile dancing on his lips, although it was a wary smile, for the world is a bigger place than a little graveyard on a hill; and there would be dangers in it and mysteries, new friends to make, old friends to rediscover, mistakes to be made and many paths to be walked before he would, finally, return to the graveyard or ride with the Lady on the broad back of her great grey stallion.

  Neil Gaiman

  Smile, Mistake, Dancing

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.190, A&C Black

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• For many years, Sierra had compared the Holy Spirit to the wind, as it said the the Bible, noting that it was always there, no matter how faint the breeze. The wind went where it wanted to go, and its path was easy to detect because it moved objects and people. But no one had ever seen the wind.

  Robin Jones Gunn

  Years, Wind, People

  Robin Jones Gunn (2009). “Sierra Jensen Collection”, p.89, Multnomah

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• Well, now that you set him on fire, I'm sure we're well on the path to reconciliation.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Fire, Wells, Reconciliation

  Alexandra Adornetto (2012). “Heaven”, p.87, Macmillan

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• Churchgoers feel righteous, responsible, and obedient to God's will. They view anyone unlike themselves as devoid of values, and therefore unworthy of God's love. By denying God to all those who have strayed from the path of righteousness, the devout are unwittingly taking on themselves a role that belongs only to God.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Views, Roles

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• Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution - paths that a sensible God would never tread but that a natural process, constrained by history, follows perforce.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Religion, Atheism, Evolution

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• You want what you can’t have. I see it in your eyes. The pain that fills your nights is because of my pack of lies. I’ve opened up the door for you to walk away. There’s a better path for you even though I want you to stay. I’ve broken the rules, I’ve veered from the path but when I met you I knew to save you was worth the wrath. Let me leave now before it’s too late. Let me leave now before you know what I am and your love becomes hate.

  Abbi Glines

  Pain, Hate, Lying

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• Find your true path. It’s so easy to become someone we don’t want to be, without even realizing it’s happening. We are created by the choices we make every day. And if we take action in order to please some authority figure, we’ll suddenly wake up down the road and say, “This isn’t me. I never wanted to be this person.

  Richard Carlson

  Order, Choices, Wake Up

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