quotes about Path
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Difficulties and obstacles are God's challenges to faith. When hindrances confront us in the path of duty, we are to recognize them as vessels for faith to fill with the fullness and all-sufficiency of Jesus.
-- A. B. Simpson -
One has to ascertain the right path for his activities by following in the footsteps of great saintly persons and books of knowledge under the guidance of a spiritual master.
-- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada -
I do what I feel is right. I do not fear to walk on a new path and take risk.
-- Aamir Khan -
The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.
-- Aaron Hill -
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Only he who bestirs himself can advance spiritually. The fool who uses extraneous aids for this, in the form of the ready-made opinions of others, only walks his path as if on crutches, while ignoring his own healthy limbs.
-- Abd-ru-shinSource : Abd-ru-shin (1998). “In the Light of Truth: The Grail Message”, p.4, Grail Foundation Press
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Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
-- Abu Bakr -
Follow the way of life, which the Holy Prophet has shown you, for verily that is the right path.
-- Abu Bakr -
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Allah makes the way to Jannah easy for him who treads the path in search of knowledge.
-- Abu Hurairah -
Actually, all paths lead away from the truth...how's that? All paths. There's no such thing as a path to the truth. The truth's already here, where are you going?
-- Adyashanti -
My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.
-- Agnetha FaltskogSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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The so-called peace path is not peace and it is not a substitute for jihad and resistance
-- Ahmed YassinSource : "A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism". Book by Daniel Byman, p. 170, June 15, 2011.
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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
-- Aidan ChambersSource : Aidan Chambers (2010). “This Is All”, p.147, Random House
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The Dharma Path is to keep walking forward. But the true Dharma has no going forward, no going backward, and no standing still.
-- Ajahn Chah -
The spiritual path is not one of attainment, but of return.
-- Alan Cohen -
We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
-- Alan HirschSource : Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.23, Baker Books
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A throne is God's purpose for you; a cross is God's path for you; faith is God's plan for you.
-- Alan RedpathSource : Alan Redpath (2004). “The Making of a Man of God (Alan Redpath Library): Lessons from the Life of David”, p.54, Baker Books
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The past stands in the path of the future, knowing it will be crushed.
-- Alaya Dawn JohnsonSource : Alaya Dawn Johnson (2013). “The Summer Prince”, p.173, Scholastic Inc.
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One recognises one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it.
-- Albert Camus -
A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
-- Albert Einstein -
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No path leads from a knowledge of that which is to that which should be.
-- Albert Einstein -
When we are no longer motivated by fear, we understand that every moment is perfect in its own way. We no longer dread what we can't control; we learn to respect the wisdom of Spirit rather than impose our will on situations. This is the path of genuine power.
-- Alberto VilloldoSource : FaceBook post by Alberto Villoldo from Apr 18, 2017
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All deaths, all endings, are a path to the next beginning.
-- Alberto Villoldo -
It is necessary that we stop, once for all, this ignorant meddling with other people's business. Each individual must be left free to follow his own path.
-- Aleister CrowleySource : Aleister Crowley (1975). “The Commentaries of AL: Being the Equinox Volume V, No. 1”, Weiser Books
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What is the meaning of Initiation? It is the Path to the realisation of your Self as the sole, the supreme, the absolute of all Truth, Beauty, Purity, Perfection!
-- Aleister Crowley -
Failure doesn't mean anything, it just means changing paths.
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky -
I cannot stand that whole game of confession, that is: Here I have sinned, now I'm confessing my sins, and describing my path of sin and then in the act of confession I beg for your forgiveness and redemption.
-- Aleksandar Hemon -
The first step on the path to positive change is acknowledgement that change is necessary and possible. Open yourself to the possibility of seeing the world in a new way. What do you have to lose?
-- Alex Blackwell -
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God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut
-- Alexander Graham Bell -
It is astonishing that so simple a truth should ever have had an adversary; and it is one among a multitude of proofs, how apt a spirit of ill-informed jealousy, or of too great abstraction and refinement is to lead men astray from the plainest paths of reason and conviction.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
If God sends us on stony paths, He will provide us with strong shoes.
-- Alexander MacLarenSource : Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.
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Put no obstacle in her path and this will surely die a natural death; obstruct her, and it will give the situation an importance to worth fighting for.
-- Alexandra Adornetto -
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If he didn't want to be mauled, he shouldn't have put himself right in my path.
-- Alexandra Adornetto -
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 AdornettoSource : "Fictional character: Jules". "Pulp Fiction", www.imdb.com. 1994.
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Well, now that you set him on fire, I'm sure we're well on the path to reconciliation.
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The path of duty I clearly trace, / I stand with conscience face to face, / And all her pleas allow; / Calling and crying the while for grace, - / 'Some other time, and some other place; / Oh, not to-day; not now!
-- Alice CarySource : Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary, Mary Clemmer (1876). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”, p.168
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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
-- Alice Walker -
Everything you want to be, you already are. You're simply on the path to discovering it.
-- Alicia Keys -
The true liberation, the true path to freedom, lay in the ability to forgive.
-- Alyson Noel -
MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
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There are many goals but one path - the path of compassion.
-- Amit Ray -
We are no more content to plod along the beaten paths - and so marriage must go the way of God.
-- Amy LevySource : Amy Levy (2006). “Reuben Sachs: A Sketch”, p.192, Broadview Press
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He alone knows to whom He will reveal Himself under which form. By what path and in what manner He attracts any particular man to Himself with great force is incomprehensible to the human intellect. The Path differs indeed for different pilgrims.
-- Anandamayi Ma -
It may be asked, why there cannot be one and the same path for all? Because He reveals Himself in infinite ways and forms - verily, The One is all of them.
-- Anandamayi Ma -
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The people I admire most hadn't really followed a particular path that was visible when they were on it.
-- Anderson Cooper -
The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.
-- Andre Gide -
Things are fragile, but we're all being carried and I think we're all on our path in that sense. As fragile as things are, we're still getting there.
-- Andrew McMahon -
I have found that searching for insight is more often than not a path to total darkness
-- Andrew McMahon -
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Some things are so impossible, so fantastic, that when they happen, you are not at all surprised. Their sheer impossibility has made you imagine them too many times in your head, and when you find yourself on that longed-for moonlit path, it seems unreal but still, somehow, familiar. You dreamed of it, of course; you know it like a memory.
-- Andrew Sean GreerSource : Andrew Sean Greer (2007). “The Confessions of Max Tivoli: A Novel”, p.65, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Being idealistic really helps you overcome some of the many obstacles put in your path.
-- Andy Hertzfeld -
Stop looking for solutions to problems and start looking for the right path.
-- Andy StanleySource : Andy Stanley (2011). “The Principle of the Path: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be”, p.11, Thomas Nelson Inc
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Religion is just a path for finding truth: Religion is not truth. It is just a path. And different people follow different paths.
-- Anita MoorjaniSource : Anita Moorjani (2012). “Dying to be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing”, p.18, Hay House, Inc
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The path of your life can change in an instant.
-- Ann BrasharesSource : "The Life Before Her Eyes", www.imdb.com. 2007.
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A new time is coming both for my personal life, and the brand Ann Demeulemeester. I feel it's time to separate our paths
-- Ann DemeulemeesterSource : "Ann Demeulemeester to Exit Label". www.businessoffashion.com. November 20, 2013.
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Being true to our beliefs—even when doing so isn’t popular, easy, or fun—keeps us safely on the path that leads to eternal life with our Heavenly Father.
-- Ann M. Dibb -
I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.
-- Anna Deavere Smith -
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It often seems, looking back, that the unexpected comes to define us, the paths we didn't see coming and may have wandered down by mistake. The older we get the more willing we are to follow those, to surprise ourselves.
-- Anna Quindlen -
I've always understood that meditation had to be part of - or was part of the natural path and so I've always sort of dabbled in it.
-- Anne Lamott -
On the spiritual path, all the dreck and misery is transformed, maybe not that same day, but still transformed into spiritual fuel or insight.
-- Anne Lamott -
Liberation is the path of transcendence. Manifestation is the path of immanence. Both lead to the same place: the divine.
-- Anodea Judith -
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I'm a Twitter addict. Jose Andres is a serial tweeter. It's funny to see which chefs have embraced it, and the different paths they take.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
There are still many more days of failure ahead, whole seasons of failure, things will go terribly wrong, you will have huge disappointments , but you have to prepare for that, you have to expect it and be resolute and follow your own path.
-- Anton Chekhov -
Be as a lion in the path. Be dangerous even in defeat.
-- Anton Szandor LaVey -
Traveler, there is no path, the path must be forged as you walk.
-- Antonio Machado -
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By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind sees the path
-- Antonio Machado -
Pathmaker, there is no path; You make the path by walking, By walking you make the Path
-- Antonio Machado -
Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. (Walk, there is no path, the path is made by walking.)
-- Antonio Machado -
Life is the path you beat while you walk it It's the walking that beats the path It is not the path that makes the walk
-- Antonio Machado -
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Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind one sees the path. . .
-- Antonio Machado -
Life is the path you beat while you walk it.
-- Antonio Machado -
My father raised me to think independently and follow my own path in life.
-- Antony Garrett Lisi -
I believe my father has and always will be the strongest influence in my life, as he has guided me on many paths.
-- Apolo OhnoSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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The law should be the point at which savagery ended because civilization stood in its path.
-- Ariana Franklin -
It is impossible to have a Jewish, democratic state and at the same time to control all of Eretz Israel. If we insist on fulfilling the dream in its entirety, we are liable to lose it all. Everything. That is where the extremist path takes us.
-- Ariel Sharon -
[When thinking about the new relativity and quantum theories] I have felt a homesickness for the paths of physical science where there are ore or less discernible handrails to keep us from the worst morasses of foolishness.
-- Arthur Eddington -
On the path of actions, great heart is the chief recommendation; on that works, a great head.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
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The artistic formulae wear thin quickly and yet daily the artist - when developing his own foundation - must enter his own time and the problems of other contemporary artists. Paths cross and the soil of time is starting to be turned.
-- Asger Jorn -
The most valuable moments and experiences that life has to offer are found only along its most treacherous paths.
-- Augusten Burroughs -
When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi -
It was the straying that found the path direct.
-- Austin Osman SpareSource : Austin Osman Spare (2007). “The Writings of Austin Osman Spare: Anathema of Zos, the Book of Pleasure and the Focus of Life”, p.78, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.
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A mind attacked and conquered is guided easily away from the paths of its own soul.
-- Ayi Kwei ArmahSource : Ayi Kwei Armah, Gwendolyn Brooks (1991). “Very Young Poets”, Third World Pr
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I am suddenly left alone again on the sunny path, with a memory of the rain.
-- Azar Nafisi -
No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.
-- B. W. PoweSource : "Mystic Trudeau: The Fire and the Rose". Book by B. W. Powe, 2007.
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The path to greatness is along with others.
-- Baltasar Gracian -
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The clear and present danger of climate change means we cannot burn our way to prosperity. We already rely too heavily on fossil fuels. We need to find a new, sustainable path to the future we want. We need a clean industrial revolution.
-- Ban Ki-moon -
Nuclear disarmament is the only sane path to a safer world.
-- Ban Ki-moon -
I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people.
-- Barack ObamaSource : Interview with Spence D., Peer Schneider, Jeremy Dunham, www.ign.com. July 9, 2004.
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I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.
-- Barry Manilow -
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All Religions are vehicles and a path to God's Divine Presence.
-- Bayazid Bastami -
Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.
-- Baz LuhrmannSource : "EXCLUSIVE: Baz Luhrmann Talks Strictly Ballroom". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. December 03, 2010.
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You are fully capable of deciding your own destiny. The question you face is, ‘Which path will you choose?’. This is something only you can decide.
-- Ben CrossSource : "Fictional character: Sarek". "Star Trek", www.imdb.com. April 6, 2009.
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I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth.
-- Ben Lindsey -
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Girded with faith and the performance of good works, let us follow in his [Jesus] paths by the guidance of the Gospel.
-- Benedict of Nursia -
Moral failure occurs when people lose focus and gradually drift off the path.
-- Benjamin Watson -
As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.
-- Bernard of Clairvaux -
For me, I took the exact right path. The cranky, independent one. And I've never looked back on it with anything but joy.
-- Betty Fussell -
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The only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of socialism is revolutionary war.
-- Bill Ayers -
Your path and purpose will become crystal clear when you begin to trust your vision.
-- Bill Walsh -
I think my work has to do with a sense that we are attempting, all the time, to create a logical, rational path through the day. To the left and right there are an amazing set of distractions that we usually can't afford to follow. But the poet is willing to stop anywhere.
-- Billy Collins -
God's path always delivers what He promises.
-- Billy Graham -