(564 quotes found)
“The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and learning; and whoever can either remove any obstruction in this way, or open up any new prospect, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind”
David Hume
“The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, and act and speak as if cheerfulness wee already there. To feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end, and courage will very likely replace fear. If we act as if from some better feeling, the bad feeling soon folds its tent like an Arab and silently steals away”
William Shakespeare
“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”
Yoda
““All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. However, a path without a heart is never enjoyable. On the other hand, a path with heart is easy—it does not make a warrior work at liking it; it makes for a joyful journey; as long as a man follows it, he is one with it.””
Carlos Castaneda
“Each is like a river that leaves behind its name and shape, the whole course of its path, to vanish into the vast sea of God.”
Dr. Richard Selzer
“Any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you”
Carlos Casteneda
“The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.”
H. G. Wells
“If You Are On Your Own Path Things Are Going To Come To You. Since It Is Your Own Path & No One Has Ever Been On It Before, there’s No Precedent, So Everything That Happens Is A Surprise & Is Timely.”
Joseph Campbell
“Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.”
Theodore Roethke
“A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination”
Hal Borland