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• Lilt pulled away. "I saw what he was doing, so I cleared a path for him. I helped him do it..." She shook her head, tears tracking the dust off her face, and turned to stare at the fallen tower. "Have we all gone mad to want this?

  Scott Westerfeld

  Dust, Mad, Tears

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• Education doesn’t make you happy. Nor does freedom. We don’t become happy just because we’re free – if we are. Or because we’ve been educated – if we have. But because education may be the means by which we realize we are happy. It opens our eyes, our ears, tells us where delights are lurking, convinces us that there is only one freedom of any importance whatsoever, that of the mind, and gives us the assurance – the confidence – to walk the path our mind, our educated mind, offers.

  Iris Murdoch

  Mean, Eye, Convince Us

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• A pretty face had been damaged by acne scars and she wore and extra forty pounds on her frame like a threat. Her eyes were dull with anger disguised as apathy. If she kept on her current path, she'd grow into the type of person who fed her kids Doritos for breakfast and purchased angry bumper stickers with lots of exclamation points. But right now, she was just another in a long line of pissed-off small-town girls with a shitty outlook.

  Dennis Lehane

  Girl, Kids, Eye

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• Once ...Why ...lie? ...when ...truth is ...the easier path

  Ellen Hopkins

  Lying, Truth Is, Easier

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• What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and colour and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker's rack. Kibii, the Nandi boy, was my good friend. Arab Ruta (the same boy grown to manhood), wo sits before me, is my good friend, but the handclasp will be shorter, the smile will not be so eager on his lips, and though the path is for a while the same, he will walk behind me now, when once, in the simplicity of our nonage, we walked together.

  Beryl Markham

  Children, Good Friend, Boys

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• O Shepherd. You said you would make my feet like hinds' feet and set me upon High Places". "Well", he answered "the only way to develop hinds' feet is to go by the paths which the hinds use.

  Hannah Hurnard

  Feet, Shepherds, Use

  Hannah Hurnard, Darien Cooper (2015). “Hinds' Feet on High Places: The Original and Complete Allegory with a Devotional and Journal for Women by Darien Cooper”, p.166, Destiny Image Publishers

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• In reality, you don’t ever change the hurricane. You just learn how to stay out of its path.

  Jodi Picoult

  Reality, Hurricanes

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.518, Simon and Schuster

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• The ones who close the path for peacefull revolution, at the same time open the path for violent revolution.

  Hugo Chavez

  Revolution, Violent, Violent Revolution

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• Oh you, straying heart, just come! Oh you, aching liver, just come! If the path to the gate is closed, Take the way by the wall, but come!

  Rumi

  Wall, Heart, Way

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• We held hands when we walked down the gingerbread path into the forest, blood dripping from our fingers. We danced with witches and kissed monsters. We turned us into wintergirls, when she tried to leave, I pulled her back into the snow because I was afraid to be alone.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Blood, Hands, Snow

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.78, Penguin

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• Home is behind, the world ahead, And there are many paths to tread Through shadows to the edge of night, Until the stars are all alight. Then world behind and home ahead, We'll wander back and home to bed. Mist and twilight, cloud and shade, Away shall fade! Away shall fade!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Stars, Twilight, Home

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Lit majors are not known for watching where they're going; most of us walk with our eyes in a book instead of on the path ahead.

  Rachel Vincent

  Book, Eye, Walks

  Rachel Vincent (2016). “Stray”, p.14, MIRA

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• If we constantly focus on the stones in our mortal path, we will almost surely miss the beautiful flower or cool stream provided by a loving Father who outlined our journey.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Beautiful, Father, Flower

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• Sometimes, instead of going down the road less taken, you just charge down the beaten path.

  Charlaine Harris

  Taken, Sometimes, Down The Road

  Charlaine Harris (2003). “Club Dead: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.161, Penguin

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• I mean it’s purposeful, even if we don’t realize it. The desire to put things in our path, to figure out how to finally leave the behind….

  Deb Caletti

  Mean, Desire, Realizing

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• He chose a certain path in life, it proved to be a misguided one, but there, he chose it, he can say that at least. As for myself, I cannot even claim that. You see, I trusted. I trusted in his lorship's wisdom. All those years I served him, I trusted I was doing something worthwhile. I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that?

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Mistake, Years, Dignity

  Remains of the Day (1989)

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• Absolutely nothing visible to the eye provides a reason for or even evidence of those terrifying shifts which can in a matter of moments reconstitute a simple path into an extremely complicated one.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Eye, Simple, Matter

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• Every Socialist outbreak only blazes new paths for Capitalism.

  Oswald Spengler

  Outbreaks, Socialist, Capitalism

  Oswald Spengler (1991). “The Decline of the West”, p.390, Oxford University Press, USA

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• We must struggle for our dreams, but when certain paths prove impossible, it would be best to save our energies in order to travel other roads.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Struggle, Order

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jun 15, 2014

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• There is a difference between finding trouble in your path and going out of your way searching for it.” -Jacen Solo

  R. A. Salvatore

  Differences, Way, Going Out

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• When was it I realized that, on this truly dark and solitary path we all walk, the only way we can light is our own? Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely. Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Lonely, Dark, Light

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.21, Grove Press

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• The six rules of maybe 1. respect the power of hope and possibilites. Begin with beleif. Hold onto it. 2. If you known where you want to go, you're already half way there. Know what you desire but, more imporantly, why you desire it. Then go. 3. hopes and dreams and heart's desires require a clear path-get out of your own way 4. Place hope carefully in your own hands and in the hands of others 5. Persist, if necessary 6. That said, most importantly-know when you've reached an end, Quit, give up, do it with courage. Giving up is not failing-it's the chance to begin again.

  Deb Caletti

  Dream, Giving Up, Heart

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• I love you, my brother, whoever you are - whether you worship in a church, kneel in your temple, or pray in your mosque. You and I are children of one faith, for the diverse paths of religion are fingers of the loving hand of the one supreme being, a hand extended to all, offering completeness of spirit to all, eager to receive all.

  Khalil Gibran

  Brother, Children, Love You

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• Life takes us on different paths... It's not up to us to evaluate or judge them, merely respect and embrace them. (Lara Lington - to Sadie Lancaster)

  Sophie Kinsella

  Judging, Different, Embrace

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• Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect ... Your have to be your own teacher and your own disciple. You have to question everything that man has accepted as valuable, as necessary.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Teacher, Men, Land

  Speech in Holland, 3 August 1929, in Lilly Heber 'Krishnamurti' (1931) ch. 2

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