Quotes on Path

For far too long we have been seduced into walking a path that did not lead us to ourselves. For far too long we have said yes when we wanted to say no. And for far too long we have said no when we desperately wanted to say yes. . . . When we don't listen to our intuition, we abandon our souls. And we abandon our souls because we are afraid if we don't, others will abandon us.

Let not those who say that the path of obedience is a dangerous one claim to believe in the living and true God. They deny his omniscience, omnipresence, omnipotence. It is his will that the bands of wickedness should be loosed, the heavy burdens of tyranny undone, the oppressed set free.

I like that there are young people being given opportunities to explore and learn and grow and become themselves with a path that is associated with my mother. She would have liked that very much.

We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered.

When explorers first encountered my people, they called us heathens, sun worshippers. They didn't understand that the sun is a relative and illuminates our path on this earth.

Chances are, if you are following the crowd, you're following the wrong path.

The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain common work as it comes certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.

Could it be ... that the hero is one who is willing to set out, take the first step, shoulder something? Perhaps the hero is one who puts his foot upon a path not knowing what he may expect from life but in some way feeling in his bones that life expects something of him.

Every start on an untrodden path is a venture which only in unusual circumstances looks sensible and likely to succeed.

What is capable of restoring enthusiasm and confidence, what can encourage the human spirit to rediscover its path, to raise its eyes to the horizon, to dream of a life worthy of its vocation - if not beauty?

The best way to get started on the path of sharing your work is to think about what you want to learn, and make a commitment to learning it in front of others.

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.

Humanity looks to works of art to shed light upon its path and its destiny.

To a contrarian like me, constant advice not to do something almost always starts me quickly down the risky, unpopular path.

The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery.

When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.

Every man's path is for himself; let him accomplish his own desires that he may thus be able to rise above them to the eternal goal.

The path to paradise begins in hell.

Knowledge is awareness, and to it are many paths, not all of them paved with logic. But sometimes one is guided through the maze by intuition. One is led by something felt on the wind, something seen in the stars, something that calls from the wasteland to the spirit.

Poetry is more a threshold than a path.

Fashion, which often seems to be on a path to be bigger, more Instagram-ready, can also achieve its best through sincerity.