Path Quotes - Page 39

• Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path.

  Tara Brach

  Spiritual, Compassion, Self

  Tara Brach (2013). “True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart”, p.163, Bantam

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• Nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows tracings of her workings apart from the beaten paths; nor is there any better way to advance the proper practice of medicine than to give our minds to the discovery of the usual law of nature, by careful investigation of cases of rarer forms of disease.

  William Harvey

  Nature, Science, Practice Of Medicine

  1987 Making It Happen: Reflections on Leadership.

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• Do not write to impress others. Authors who write to impress people have difficulty remaining true to themselves. A better path is to write what pleases you and pray that there are others like you. Your first and most important reader is you. If you write a book that pleases you, at least you know one person will like it.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Book, Writing, People

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• Watchfulness is the path of immortality:
  Unwatchfulness is the path of death.
  Those who are watchful never die:
  Those who do not watch are already as dead.
  Those who with a clear mind have seen this truth,
  Those who are wise and ever watchful,
  They feel the joy of watchfulness,
  The joy of the path of the great.
  And those who in high thought and in deep contemplation
  With ever living power advance on the path,
  They in the end reach NIRVANA,
  The peace supreme and infinite joy.
  ~ Buddha

  Juan Mascaro

  Wise, Meditation, Joy

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• Loneliness and solitude are two different things. When you are lonely, it is easy to delude yourself into believing that you are on the right path. Solitude is better for us, as it means being alone without feeling lonely. But eventually it is best to find a person, the person who will be your mirror. Remember, only in another person's heart can you truly see yourself and the presence of God within you.

  Elif Safak

  Lonely, Loneliness, Believe

  "The Forty Rules of Love". Book by Elif Safak, March 2009.

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• Art Is a Way Out. Do not let life overwhelm you. When the old paths are choked with the débris of failure, look for newer and fresher paths. Art is just such a path. Art is distilled from suffering.

  Nathanael West

  Art, Suffering, Looks

  Nathanael West, Jonathan Lethem (2009). “Miss Lonelyhearts: & the Day of the Locust”, p.4, New Directions Publishing

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• Now why should that man have fainted? But he did,and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Wall, Men, Should

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Catherine Golden (2004). “Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wall-paper: A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.144, Psychology Press

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• Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means.

  Charles Dickens

  Courage, Integrity, Mean

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Barnaby Rudge: And Hard Times”, p.374

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• Writing stories is my way of scratching that itch: my escape from the claustrophobia of individuality. It lets me, at least for a while, live more than one life, walk more than one path. Reading, of course, can do the same.

  Emma Donoghue

  Reading, Writing, Individuality

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• God has prepared a path for everyone to follow.

  Paulo Coelho

  Alchemist, Omen, Prepared

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• It happens that the stage sets collapse. Rising, streetcar, four hours in the office or the factory, meal, streetcar, four hours of work, meal, sleep, and Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday and Saturday according to the same rhythm – this path is easily followed most of the time. But one day the “why” arises and everything begins in that weariness tinged with amazement.

  Albert Camus

  Friday, Monday, Sleep

  Albert Camus (1955). “The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays”

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• The difficult thing, the glorious thing, was to be who you really were, even if that person was cruel or dangerous, particularly if cruel and dangerous. There was courage in not distinguishing the animal you happened to be. On the other hand, you had to avoid pretending to be more of an animal than you were: take that path, start exaggerating or faking and you became just another Cubby, just as much of a liar, a hypocrite

  J. K. Rowling

  Liars, Hypocrite, Animal

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• Love is an emerald. Its brilliant light wards off dragons On this treacherous path.

  Rumi

  True Love, Inspirational Love, Love Is

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• We do not need to achieve some minimum level or capacity or goodness before God will help - divine aid can be ours every hour of every day, no matter where we are in the path of obedience.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Spiritual, Needs, Levels

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• I think everything is happening all the time, but if you don't put yourself in the path of it, you miss it.

  Gayle Forman

  Thinking, Missing, Happenings

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Jan 31, 2016

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• Or maybe it's not a miracle. Maybe this is just life. When you open yourself up to it. When you put yourself in the path of it. When you say yes.

  Gayle Forman

  Miracle

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Feb 04, 2013

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• Because the path of the righteous man was never supposed to be easy,' I whispered. 'Those who are chosen by the Lord are given a hard journey. The rewards will come later.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Journey, Men, Righteous Man

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• There are many paths to enlightenment. Some of us who have expanded to a degree of illumination have thereafter preached the dogmatic certainty of one particular path. But enlightenment doesn't care how you get there. And if you aren't going to be thinking about it in paradise, then don't worry about it now.

  Thaddeus Golas

  Spiritual, Thinking, Illumination

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• Only as a warrior can one survive the path of knowledge.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Spiritual, Warrior, Don Juan

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Separate Reality: Conversations With Don Juan”, p.214, Simon and Schuster

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• Truth is one, though the sages know it as many . God is one, though different religions approach Him differently Call Him Shiva, Vishnu, Allah, Jesus or any other form of God that you believe in . Our paths may be different. Our destination is the same.

  Amish Tripathi

  Jesus, Believe, Different

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• Pippin: I didn't think it would end this way.
  Gandalf: End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path... One that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass... And then you see it.
  Pippin: What? Gandalf?... See what?
  Gandalf: White shores... and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise.
  Pippin: Well, that isn't so bad.
  Gandalf: No... No it isn't.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Country, Rain, Journey

  "Fictional characters: Pippin, Gandalf". "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King", www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• And his paths shall be many, and who shall know his name, for he shall be beorn among us many times, in many guises, as he has been and ever will be, time without end. His coming shall be like the sharp edge of the plow, turning our lives in furrows form out of the places where we lie in our silence. The breaker of binds; the forger of chains. The maker of futures; the unshaper of destiny. -from Commentaries on the Prophecies of the Dragon, by Jurith Dorine, Right Hand to the Queen of Almoren, 742 AB, the Third Age

  Robert Jordan

  Queens, Lying, Destiny

  Robert Jordan (2009). “The Dragon Reborn: Book 3 of the Wheel of Time”, p.7, Hachette UK

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• Walk any path in Destiny's garden, and you will be forced to choose, not once but many times.

  Neil Gaiman

  Destiny, Garden, Walks

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• The Light willing, we will see one another again," Rand said. He held out his hand to Perrin. "Watch out for Mat. I'm honestly not sure what he's going to do, but I have a feeling it will be highly dangerous for all involved." "Not like us," Perrin said, clasping Rand's forearm. "You and I, we're much better at keeping to the safe paths.

  Robert Jordan

  Light, Hands, Feelings

  Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson (2013). “A Memory Of Light: Book 14 of the Wheel of Time”, p.172, Hachette UK

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• Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Fulfilled, Living Organisms, Right Path

  Marcus Aurelius (2006). “Meditations”, p.119, Penguin UK

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