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“Great patience is called for on the hard path that I have entered on.”

Hard Path Patience Great Patience

Author:Edgar Degas

“I find that it is important to work slowly. Anyone who looks at such a canvas will follow the same path the artist took, and he will experience that it is the path which counts more than the outcome of it, and that the route taken has been the most interesting part.”

Looks Has Beens Important Artist Interesting Path Taken Outcomes Canvas Routes Most Interesting

Author:Georges Braque

“There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit - love.”

Path Journey Harmony Summit Many Paths

Author:Morihei Ueshiba

“All there will ever be is what's happening here. Decisions we make in this moment are based on either love or fear. So many of us choose our path out of fear, disguised as practicality.”

Moments Choices Decision Path Happenings Practicality Decisions We Make

Author:Jim Carrey

“Our path is sometimes rough and sometimes smooth; nonetheless, life is a constant journey... whatever we do is regarded as our journey, our path. That path consists of opening oneself to the road, opening oneself to the steps we are about to take.”

Sometimes Life Is Steps Path Journey Constant Oneself Opening Rough Smooth

Book:The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Two: The Path Is the Goal; Training the Mind; Glimpses of Abhidharma; Glimpses of Shu nyata; Glimpses of Mahayana; Selected Writings

Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Two: The Path Is the Goal; Training the Mind; Glimpses of Abhidharma; Glimpses of Shu nyata; Glimpses of Mahayana; Selected Writings

“Society cannot contribute anything to the breeding and growing of ingenious men. A creative genius cannot be trained. There are no schools for creativeness. A genius is precisely a man who defies all schools and rules, who deviates from the traditional roads of routine and opens up new paths through land inaccessible before. A genius is always a teacher, never a pupil; he is always self-made.”

Source: Bureaucracy: The Economist

“Mind, word and act; all three must be filled with the belief that all is His play; that is the genuine path.”

Mind Play Three Belief Path Filled Genuine

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“When you stick to the path of Truth and Righteousness, pain and poverty haunt you. But they are only clouds passing through the sky, hiding for a little time, the splendor of the Sun.”

Littles Pain Poverty Sun Path Sky Sticks Clouds Passing Passings Righteousness Hiding Splendor Little Time Passing Through

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“You have it in your power to make your days on Earth a path of flowers, instead of a path of thorns.”

Earth Path Flower Difficulty Thorns

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“At a certain stage in the path of devotion, the devotee finds satisfaction in God with form, and at another stage, in God without it.”

Form Certain Path Stage Satisfaction Devotion Devotee

Book:Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120

Source: Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120

“Infinite are the paths and infinite the opinions.”

Opinion Path Journey Infinite

Book:The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

“The beholder's eye, which moves like an animal grazing, follows paths prepared for it in the picture.”

Eye Moving Animal Path Prepared Beholder Grazing

Book:Paul Klee: Watercolors, Drawings, Writings

Source: Paul Klee: Watercolors, Drawings, Writings

“Let me not follow in the clamor of the world, but walk calmly in my path.”

World Walks Path Let Me Originality Clamor

Author:Max Ehrmann

“Of all the paths [that] lead to a woman's love Pity's the straightest.”

Path Pity Companionship

Author:Francis Beaumont

“Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world But those who slide along the grassy sod, And sting the luckless foot that presses them? There are who in the path of social life Do bask their spotted skins in Fortune's sun, And sting the soul.”

Thinking World Soul Social Sun Path Feet Skins Presses Fortune Deceit Slides Social Life Serpent Sod

Book:The Complete Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie

“My master's visualizations were so powerful their condensation into matter was mere signature. Donald Walters, formerly Kriyananda, author of The Path about his guru Yogananda.”

Matter Powerful Path Masters Achievement Mere Guru Visualization Signatures Condensation

Author:Goswami Kriyananda

“The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.”

Men Firsts Steps Path He Man First Steps Pauses Halt Treason Quicksand

Author:Aaron Hill

“Trying to do good to people without God's help is no easier than making the sun shine at midnight. You discover that you've got to abandon all your own preferences, your own bright ideas, and guide souls along the road our Lord has marked out for them. You mustn't coerce them into some path of your own choosing.”

People Trying Ideas Soul Helping Lord Sun Path Easier Shining Guides Abandon Midnight Preference Our Lord Without God Sun Shines Coerce Bright Ideas

Author:Therese of Lisieux

“I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers, an often painful process.”

Process Path Painful Barriers Empowering Women Empowered Women Women Empowering Women

Author:Diana Nyad

“A library is a path to the future--find yours there.”

Author:Mary Higgins Clark

“One path is greed, the second is curiosity. With one, the journey is to a reward; with the other, the journey is the reward.”

Path Journey Rewards Curiosity Greed

Author:Dale Dauten

“When I make my drawings... the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to the gesture of a man groping his way in the darkness.”

Men Way Darkness Path Paper Drawing Gestures Sheets Pencils

Author:Alberto Giacometti

“It is with extreme sadness that we hear of the passing of the leader of the world's Catholics, His Holiness Pope John Paul II, who commanded the three paths of religious learning, philosophical thought and poetical and artistic creativity.”

World Three Religious Leader Creativity Path Sadness Philosophical Catholic Extremes Passing Passings Artistic Holiness Pope John Paul John Paul Ii Artistic Creativity Pope John Paul

Author:Mohammad Khatami

“With stagnant hourly wages, the only way for working families to get ahead is by working more hours, ... certainly not the path to improving living standards that we'd expect in an economy posting strong productivity gains.”

Way Strong Hours Economy Path Standards Gains Productivity Improving Wages Stagnant Get Ahead

Author:Jared Bernstein

“Trying to be cool is the easiest path to mediocrity”

Trying Path Mediocrity Being Cool

Author:Terry Crews

“The Great Way has no gate; / there are a thousand paths to it. / If you pass through the barrier, / you walk the universe alone.”

Ifs Way Universe Walks Path Thousand Barriers Gates

Author:Wumen Huikai

“My family is like a sanctuary to me. I always turn to them for support and strength. I take comfort in knowing no matter which path I choose, my family stands behind me.”

Matter Turns Behinds Support Knowing Path Strength Comfort My Family Sanctuary

Author:Benjamin Bratt

“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.”

Problem Artist Path Crosses Foundation Starting Contemporary Artistic Developing Soil

Book:Asger Jorn

Source: Asger Jorn

“Our old experiences, memories and fears guide us down the present path. It's not so much that you are the artist; you are the conduit.”

Artist Memories Path Journey Guides

Author:Nick Bantock

“I have no doubt that aggressively going after wrongdoing can result in real improvement. Fewer wrongdoers in city government means more honest employees; it means better city services; it means more efficient government. And punishing wrongdoing can have a strong ripple effect that deters others from going down the wrong path.”

Mean Real Government Strong Results Cities Path Doubt Effects Honest Improvement No Doubt Employee Fewer Efficient Aggression Ripple Wrongdoing Wrong Path Ripple Effect City Government

Author:David Hoffman

“The economy has settled into a sustainable, self-reinforcing growth path, .. All major categories of the economy have contributed to economic growth. Now that businesses have begun to add to payrolls, the current expansion is self-reinforcing. Only external shocks, such as terrorist attacks or a surge in oil prices, could derail the recovery.”

Self Growth Economy Path Economic Majors Add Currents Oil Terrorist Recovery Shock Categories Expansion Economic Growth Terrorist Attacks Payroll Oil Price

Author:Sung Won Sohn

“The Lord Himself reveals the Path, He Himself is the Doer of deeds.”

Lord Path Deeds Doers

Author:Guru Gobind Singh

“Will our souls, hurrying on in diverse paths, unite once more, as if the interval had been a dream?”

Ifs Soul Dream Path Diverse Parting Intervals Hurrying

Author:Edward George, Baron George

“Novelty is vital to the stimulation of life... New neural paths are sparked by caving in to notions.”

Ideas Path Notion Novelty Stimulation

Author:Robert Genn

“My recollections of Armenia open new visions for me. My art is therefore a growth art where forms, pines, shapes, memories of Armenia germinate, breathe, expand and contract, multiply and thereby create new paths for exploration.”

Art Form Growth Memories Vision Path Shapes Art Is Breathe Exploration Contracts Recollection New Paths New Vision Armenia

Author:Arshile Gorky

“Among the wealthy, compassionate men claim the richest wealth, For material wealth is possessed by even contemptible men. Find and follow the good path and be ruled by compassion. For if the various ways are examined, compassion will prove the means to liberation.”

Ifs Men Way Inspirational Mean Motivational Wealth Compassion Path Materials Healthy Prove Claims Various Well Being Liberation Wealthy Compassionate Possessed Material Wealth

Author:Thiruvalluvar

“Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it leads you off the well worn path.”

Giving Believe Wells Heart Worry Path Anxiety Worn Follow Your Heart Dots Down The Road Connecting The Dots Worn Path

Author:Steve Jobs

“The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.”

Path Sadness Land Sorrow Misery

Book:The Poems of William Cowper ...

Source: The Poems of William Cowper ...

“Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Whatever the vexations or concerns of their personal lives, their thoughts can find paths that lead to inner contentment and to renewed excitement in living.”

Earth Nature Path Mystery Concern Scientist Excitement Contentment Weary Personal Life Vexation Layman

Book:The Sense of Wonder

Source: The Sense of Wonder

“The first method is that of a schemer and leads only to mediocre results; the other method is the path of genius and changes the face of the world.”

World Firsts Faces Politics Results Power Path Genius Method Mediocre

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future... The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it... Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

“Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.”

Nature Path Hiking Dirt Hiker Outdoor Life

Author:John Muir

“I am not here to pass civilities or compliments with you, but on other business. I have stood your meanness as long as I intend to. You have played the part of a damned scoundrel, and are a coward, and if you were any part of a man I would slap your jaws and force you to resent it. You may as well not issue any more orders to me, for I will not obey them... and as I say to you that if you ever again try to interfere with me or cross my path it will be at the peril of your life.”

“There is but one path. We must kill them all.”

Author:Spartacus

“The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.”

Art Real Country Artist Waiting Path Car Forgotten Track Glorious Canvas Obedient

Author:A. Y. Jackson

“I envision a world filled with women traveling alone and meeting each other on the path.”

World Path Filled Meetings Traveling Alone

Author:Sark

“There is no glimpse of the light without walking the path. You can't get it from anyone else, nor can you give it to anyone. Just take whatever steps seem easiest for you, and as you take a few steps it will be easier for you to take a few more.”

Giving Light Seems Steps Path Walking Easier Glimpse

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“For women there are, undoubtedly, great difficulties in the path, but so much the more to overcome. First, no woman should say, "I am but a woman!" But a woman! What more can you ask to be?”

Should Firsts Asks Women Path Overcoming Difficulty

Book:Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals

Source: Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals

“Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”

“Chop your own path. Get off the car track”

Inspiration Path Car Track

Author:A. Y. Jackson