Path Quotes - Page 40

• Maybe the paths that you each shall tread are already laid before your feet though you do not see them

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Feet

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.261, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Molly slapped the lid back down then pushed past Luce into the foyer stumbling over Shelby in her path. �Excuse you � they said gruffly at the same time eyeing each other suspiciously. �Oh good. � Gabbe leaned in to give Luce a hug. �Molly'�s made a friend.�

  Lauren Kate

  Past, Excuse You, Giving

  Lauren Kate (2011). “The Fallen Sequence: An Omnibus Edition”, p.695, Delacorte Press

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• Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Taken, Journey, Lines

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Sexing the Cherry”, p.2, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Feelings of longing seemed to burst from her heart; they ran in all directions, like streams of blood, seeking out paths to all the places in the wide landscape where she had lived, to all her sons roaming through the world, to all her dead lying under the earth.

  Sigrid Undset

  Lying, Heart, Son

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• We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep. We rise; one wand'ring thought pollutes the day. We feel, conceive, or reason; laugh or weep, Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away; It is the same: for, be it joy or sorrow, The path of its departure still is free. Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Dream, Sleep, Men

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.1701, Delphi Classics

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• Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise. Whoever feels himself walking on the path, and refuses to praise--that man or woman steals from others every day--is a shoplifter! The sun became full of light when it got hold of itself. Angels only began shining when they achieved discipline. The sun goes out whenever the cloud of not-praising comes. The moment the foolish angel felt insolent, he heard the door close.

  Rumi

  Angel, Men, Clouds

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.122, Shambhala Publications

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• Knowledge is the key that unlocks all the doors. You can be green-skinned with yellow polka dots and come from Mars, but if you have knowledge that people need, instead of beating you, they'll beat a path to your door.

  Benjamin Carson

  Doors, Yellow, Keys

  "Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence". Book by Ben Carson and Cecil Murphey, 1996.

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• All he knew was that they fit somehow, and that he felt as if he spent most of his life traveling a path that led inexorably to her.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Fit, Felt, Ifs

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• Life is more a matter of choosing than knowing. He could never know the eventual destination of his path, but he could always choose in which direction to take each step.

  Matthew Woodring Stover

  Knowing, Matter, Steps

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• My ma used to say that crying is good for you. Tears are the path that free your mind of sorrowful thoughts.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Free Your Mind, Tears, Cry

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Retribution”, p.141, Macmillan

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• Come, dear heart. Lean on me and let us walk this path together.

  Juliet Marillier

  Heart, Together, Dear

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Son of the Shadows: Book Two of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.564, Macmillan

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• Life is funny isn’t it? Just when you think you’ve got it all figured out, just when you finally begin to plan something, get excited about something, and feel like you know what direction you’re heading in, the paths change, the signs change, the wind blows the other way, north is suddenly south, and east is west, and you’re lost. It is so easy to lose your way, to lose direction. And that’s with following all the signposts

  Cecelia Ahern

  Change, Blow, Thinking

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Many friends have expressed concern that a religious fanatic will try to kill me when I go to Africa. After all, I’ll be speaking out against a crime many fundamentalists consider a holy practice. I’m sure my work will be dangerous, and I admit to being scared…. But my faith tells me to be strong, that God led me down this path for a reason. He has work for me to do. This is my mission. And I believe that long before the day I was born, God chose the day I will die, so I can’t change that. In the meantime, I might as well take a chance, because that’s what I’ve done all my life.

  Waris Dirie

  Religious, Strong, Believe

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• It feels like everything's been decided in advance that I'm following a path somebody else has already mapped out for me. It doesn't matter how much I think things over, how much effort I put into it. In fact, the harder I try, the more I lose my sense of who I am. It's like my identity's an orbit that I've strayed far away from, and that really hurts. But more than that, it scares me. Just thinking about it makes me flinch.

  Haruki Murakami

  Hurt, Thinking, Who I Am

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• I was walking along a path with two friends - the sun was setting - suddenly the sky turned blood red - I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence - there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city - my friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety - and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature.

  Edvard Munch

  Fire, Blue, Blood

  Edvard Munch's Diary, January 22, 1892.

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• I don't think everyone wants to create the great American novel, but we all have a dream of telling our stories-of realizing what we think, feel, and see before we die. Writing is a path to meet ourselves and become intimate.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Dream, Writing, Thinking

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.12, Shambhala Publications

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• Planning complex, beautiful meals and investing one's heart and time in their preparation is the opposite of self-indulgence. Kitchen-based family gatherings are process-oriented, cooperative, and in the best of worlds, nourishing and soulful. A lot of calories get used up before anyone sits down to consume. But more importantly, a lot of talk happens first, news exchanged, secrets revealed across generations, paths cleared with a touch on the arm. I have given and received some of my life's most important hugs with those big oven-mitt potholders on both hands.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Beautiful, Heart, Self

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.288, Faber & Faber

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• He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread the signs, whether he should not have taken the other way.

  J. K. Rowling

  Taken, Dark, Way

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• Sometimes you wonder, I mean really wonder. I know we make our own reality, and we always have a choice, but how much is preordained? Is there always a fork in the road, and are there two preordained paths that are equally preordained? There could be hundreds of paths where one could go this way or that way -- there's a chance, and it's very strange sometimes.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Mean, Reality

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• Words can be worrisome, poeple complex, motives and manners unclear, grant her the wisdom to choose her path right, free from unkindness and fear.

  Neil Gaiman

  Manners, Motive, Grants

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• Better not to start down a wrong path at all than head down it in the hope of making a detour when something better came along.

  Darren Shan

  Detours, Something Better, Wrong Path

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• The difference between a path and a road is not only the obvious one. A path is little more than a habit that comes with knowledge of a place. It is a sort of ritual of familiarity. As a form, it is a form of contact with a known landscape. It is not destructive. It is the perfect adaptation, through experience and familiarity, of movement to place; it obeys the natural contours; such obstacles as it meets it goes around.

  Wendell Berry

  Differences, Perfect, Movement

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.12, Counterpoint

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• Depending on the situation, sometimes you can know a person better in ten minutes than someone you have crossed paths with all your life.

  David Baldacci

  Sometimes, Intimacy, Minutes

  David Baldacci (2009). “The Simple Truth”, p.420, Pan Macmillan

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• On the blue summer evenings, I will go along the paths, And walk over the short grass, as I am pricked by the wheat: Daydreaming I will feel the coolness on my feet. I will let the wind bathe my bare head. I will not speak, I will have no thoughts: But infinite love will mount in my soul; And I will go far, far off, like a gypsy, through the countryside - as happy as if I were a woman. "Sensation

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Summer, Blue, Wind

  Arthur Rimbaud, “Sensation”

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• If you throw me out of this house, I shall sleep on the path outside. If you return to the Continent without me, I shall follow you. I will build a willow hut at your gate; I will sleep under your window; I will be waiting for you at your own front door.

  Eloisa James

  Sleep, Doors, House

  Eloisa James (2011). “When Beauty Tamed The Beast: Number 2 in series”, p.157, Hachette UK

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