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“Strew gladness on the paths of men-You will not pass this way again.”

Men Way Path Gladness

Book:Songs of the Average Man

Source: Songs of the Average Man

“On the spiritual path, all the dreck and misery is transformed, maybe not that same day, but still transformed into spiritual fuel or insight.”

Stills Spiritual Spirituality Path Misery Insight Fuel Transformed Spiritual Path

Author:Anne Lamott

“Bodies like the earth are not made to move on curved orbits by a force called gravity; instead, they follow the nearest thing to a straight path in a curved space, which is called a geodesic. A geodesic is the shortest (or longest) path between two nearby points.”

Made Two Body Earth Moving Force Space Path Gravity Orbit Straight Path

Book:A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes

Source: A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes

“A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.”

Inspiration Goal Path Objectives Setting Goals Objectivity Straight Path

Author:Andre Gide

“And love became the world's origin and the world's ruler, yet littered its path is with flowers and blood, flowers and blood.”

World Love Is Path Blood Flower And Love Rulers

Author:Knut Hamsun

“I must honor those who fight of their own free will, he said to himself. And I must try to imitate their courage by following my path as a pacifist, wherever it takes me.”

Trying Said Fighting Path Honor Following Free Will Take Me Pacifist

Author:Christopher Isherwood

“Instead of taking the 'I'm cool, I hope you adore me' path (with my music), I chose the path of how to connect. I think that's the reason a lot of people feel a deeper connection with our band than other bands, and I also feel that's why people polarize on us. If you don't get it, it seems preposterous; if you do get it, it's really heavy - it has a weight to it.”

People Ifs Thinking Feels Reason Seems Path Band Connections Weight Heavy Deeper Adore

Author:Billy Corgan

“For me, one of the most disturbing elements of the right wing's political agenda is that it believes that there is one correct spiritual and moral path for all people to follow. The danger inherent in this is its explicit refusal to accept anyone who happens to lead a different lifestyle, and the condemnation of those who differ.”

“If you are receptive and humble, mathematics will lead you by the hand. Again and again, when I have been at a loss how to proceed, I have just had to wait until I have felt the mathematics led me by the hand. It has led me along an unexpected path, a path where new vistas open up, a path leading to new territory, where one can set up a base of operations, from which one can survey the surroundings and plan future progress.”

“I know of nothing more terrible than the poor creatures who have learned too much. Instead of the sound powerful judgement which would probably have grown up if they had learned nothing, their thoughts creep timidly and hypnotically after words, principles and formulae, constantly by the same paths. What they have acquired is a spider's web of thoughts too weak to furnish sure supports, but complicated enough to provide confusion.”

Ifs Knows Enough Sound Poor Powerful Principles Support Path Too Much Terrible Creatures Weak Complicated Confusion Judgement Spiders Creeps

Book:Popular Scientific Lectures

Source: Popular Scientific Lectures

“The discovery of radioactivity created a momentary chaos in chemistry and physics; but it soon led to a fuller interpretation of the old ideas. It dispersed many difficulties, harmonized many discords, and yea, more! It shewed the substance of Universe as a simplicity of Light and Life, manners to compose atoms, themselves capable of deeper self-realization through fresh complexities and organizations, each with its own peculiar powers and pleasures, each pursuing its path through the world where all things are possible.”

“To break out of the chaos of my darkness Into a lucid day is all my will. My words like eyes in night, stare to reach A centre for their light: and my acts thrown To distant places by impatient violence Yet lock together to mould a path of stone Out of my darkness into a lucid day.”

Light Eye Together Night Break Darkness Path Violence Stones Chaos Staring Thrown Locks Centre Impatient Break Out Mould

Book:World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender

Source: World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender

“My words like eyes that flinch from light, refuse And shut upon obscurity; my acts Cast to their opposites by impatient violence Break up the sequent path; they fly On a circumference to avoid the centre.”

Light Eye Break Path Violence Opposites Casts Refuse Shut Up Centre Impatient Obscurity

Book:World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender

Source: World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender

“A nation's path to greatness lies in its economic prowess and ... militarism, empire, and aggression lead to a dead end.”

Ends Lying Nations Path Economic Greatness Empires Aggression Dead Ends Militarism Prowess

Book:The Post-American World: Release 2.0 (International Edition)

Source: The Post-American World: Release 2.0 (International Edition)

“where Nietzsche's response to the equation of socialism and morality was to question the value of morality, at least as it had been customarily understood, economists like Mises and Hayek pursued a different path, one Nietzsche would never have dared to take: they made the market the very expression of morality.”

Made Different Values Path Expression Morality Understood Response Socialism Economist Equations Pursued Different Paths Hayek

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“Images, memories, fragmentary shapes and forms all those sensations, visions, half-thoughts that appear and disappear in the wink of an eye, as one sets forth to meet.... The path also disappears as I think of it, as I say it.”

Thinking Eye Form Memories Half Vision Path Shapes Disappear Sensations

Book:The Monkey Grammarian

Source: The Monkey Grammarian

“If a man prays to Thee with a yearning heart, he can reach Thee, through Thy grace, by any path.”

Ifs Men Heart Path Grace Praying Thee Yearning

Book:The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

“You should not feel that your path is the only right path and that other paths are wrong. You mustn't bear malice toward others.”

Feels Should Path Bears Malice Right Path

Author:Ramakrishna

“Peace is far more preferable to war. [...] I believe that peace is the only path to true security. [...] And there is no question that the only path to peace is through negotiations .”

Believe War I Believe Peace Path Security Negotiation

Author:Barack Obama

“Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect.”

Nations Perfect Democracy Path

Author:Barack Obama

“You follow the same paths of thought as before. Only, they appear strewn with roses.”

Path Rose Cannabis

Book:On Hashish

Source: On Hashish

“These terrifying forms which advance on me, I feel that the despair they bring is alive. It slips into this nucleus of life beyond which the paths of eternity extend. It is truly an eternal separation. They slip their knives into this center where I feel myself a man, they sever those vital ties which bind me to the dream of my lucid reality.”

Men Feels Dream Reality Form Path Alive Despair Eternal Eternity Separation Ties Knives Slips Nucleus

Book:Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings

Source: Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings

“Jesus does not drive His followers on before, as a herd of unwilling disciples, but goes before Himself, leading them into paths that He has trod, and dangers He has met, and sacrifices He has borne Himself, calling them after Him and to be only followers.”

Doe Jesus Christ Path Sacrifice Danger Calling Mets Followers Disciple Herds Unwilling

Book:The New Life

Source: The New Life

“I think it's unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimacy, and that is marriage. I think, for instance, that it would be far easier for Americans to elect a black president or a female president than an unmarried president.”

Thinking Would Be America Social Black President Path Easier Female Instance Unfortunate Legitimacy Unmarried Female President

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“As a child walking over a slippery and dangerous path cries out, "Father, I am falling!" and has but a moment to catch his father's hand, so every believer sees hours when only the hand of Jesus comes between him and the abysses of destruction.”

Children Moments Hands Fall Father Jesus Christ Hours Path Dangerous Cry Walking Destruction Believer Abyss Slippery

Author:Theodore L. Cuyler

“I've always liked to go down a different path. Being a woman of color, I never followed a cookie cutter way.”

Way Different Path Color Cookies Being A Woman Different Paths Cutters Cookie Cutters

Author:Halle Berry

“Look up, look up, and let your faith continually increase. Let this faith guide you along the narrow path that leads through the gates of the city into the great beyond, the wide, unbounded future of glory that is for the redeemed.”

Looks Cities Path Glory Increase Wide Guides Look Up Gates Redeemed Narrow Path

Book:The Conflict of the Ages Story, Vol. II. - Prophets and Kings

Source: The Conflict of the Ages Story, Vol. II. - Prophets and Kings

“Pessimism negates the existing world. Yet its negating is ambiguous. It can simply will decay and nothingness, but it can also renounce what exists and thus open a path for a new formation of the world.”

World Path Pessimism Decay Nothingness Formation Renounce Ambiguous

Book:Nietzsche

Source: Nietzsche

“There is an utterance of Necessity, an ancient decree of the gods, eternal, sealed fast with broad oaths: whenever any one defiles his body sinfully with bloody gore or perjures himself in regard to wrong-doing, one of those spirits who are heir to long life, thrice ten thousand seasons shall he wander apart from the blessed, being born meantime in all sorts of mortal forms, changing one bitter path of life for another.”

Long Body Form Spirit Born Path Thousand Ten Eternal Seasons Regard Blessed Ancient Bitter Wander Mortals Broads Bloody Long Life Oath Gore Heirs Decree Utterance Thrice

Author:Empedocles

“Harvey sought for truth in Truth's own book- Creation - which by God himself was writ;And wisely thought 'twas fitNot to read comments only upon it,But on th' original itself to look.Methinks in Art's great circle others standLock'd up together hand in hand:Every one leads as he is led,The same bare path they tread,A dance like that of Fairies, a fantastic round,With neither change of motion nor of ground.Had Harvey to this road confined his wit,His noble circle of the blood had been untrodden yet.”

Looks Art Book Hands Together Path Blood Creation Originals Rounds Noble Wit Circles Fantastic Fairy Comment Confined Hand In Hand Harvey

Author:William Harvey

“Unless the Security Council is restored to its pre-eminent position as the sole source of legitimacy on the use of force, we are on a dangerous path to anarchy.”

Use Force Path Security Dangerous Position Source Anarchy Sole Council Legitimacy Security Council Use Of Force

Author:Kofi Annan

“That thorny path, those stormy skies, have drawn our spirits nearer; and rendered us, by sorrow's ties, each to the other dearer.”

Spirit Path Sky Sorrow Adversity Ties Stormy

Book:Poems and Letters by Bernard Barton: With a Memoir

Source: Poems and Letters by Bernard Barton: With a Memoir

“At this point in my life, I find myself obsessed with alternate paths I could've taken. I don't think about this with a sense of regret, but with a sense of wonder.”

Thinking Wonder Path Taken Regret Obsessed Sense Of Wonder Self Obsessed

Author:Ben Gibbard

“I feel like a lot has changed - ebooks are a much more valid format and bigger presses are taking less chances. As a bookseller, there are less real bookstores and more people buying on-line. As a writer, I think there are fewer paths to break through on a big press, but on the other hand there are more small presses doing awesome work now. Overall, artistically, I think it's a pretty exciting time in the literary world.”

People Thinking World Feels Real Hands Bigs Lines Chance Break Path Changed Bigger Exciting Presses Buying Fewer Bookstores Format Break Through Booksellers

Author:Kevin Sampsell

“If men and women were equal, everybody would have the same values.Because at this point in time, many women feel compelled to care for the children, feel empathetically into another person's reality, more so than many men who often are on more of a straight-shooting path towards achievement come what may.”

Ifs Men Feels May Children Persons Reality Care Values Path Equal Achievement Men And Women Shooting Compelled

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“I realized that the people I want to impress most are already in my band. If I just do my best and try to write great songs and then collaborate with these guys and try to make a great record, that's my best path to success.”

People Ifs Want Writing Trying Guy Song Path Records Band I Realized Impress Path To Success

Author:Ed Robertson

“All of women's stories in the 19th century had either one of two endings: you either had the good Jane Austen marriage at the end and you were happy; or you had the terrible Henry James savage downfall because of your own hubris as a woman, or you've made some great error leading you down a path to ruin. One is the story of love that's successful and the other is the story usually of reckless love that goes terribly wrong that destroys the woman.”

Made Two Ends Stories Path Successful Century Terrible Errors Ruins Savages Jane Reckless 19th Century Downfall Hubris Austen

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“I think the art film, or the auteur-driven film - and not only foreign, but domestic films following that path - can get a small share of the box office. And I think that small share may open up a little bit.”

Thinking May Littles Art Film Bits Path Share Office Little Bit Boxes Following Driven Box Office Art Films Auteurs

Author:Roger Corman

“In business, when you fail at something, when something doesn't work, you say okay, we've learned that that's not a path to go down.”

Path Failing Okay

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“In science, a path that turns out to be a dead end is very useful because you don't devote resources to focusing on that; you go elsewheres.”

Ends Turns Path Resources Dead Ends

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“For every woman who's ever wondered about the path not taken, Fenton and Steinke mine—with tremendous humor and insight—the mixed blessing of unexpected second chances.”

Chance Path Taken Mines Blessing Insight Unexpected Second Chance

Author:Emma McLaughlin

“It is for women to come forward and choose the path of sacrifice for serving the nation.”

Nations Path Sacrifice Serving

Author:Rahul Gandhi

“Even a queen stubs her toe, but a wise woman watches the path.”

Watches Path Wise Queens Toes Wise Women Wot

Book:The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'

Source: The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'

“With the disintegration of all that [Nietzsche] had revered, existence, to him, had become a desert in which only one thing remained, namely that which had relentlessly forced him into this path: truthfulness that knows no limits and is not subject to any condition.”

Knows Existence Path One Thing Conditions Subjects Limits Desert Truthfulness Disintegration

Book:Nietzsche: An Introduction to the Understanding of His Philosophical Activity

Source: Nietzsche: An Introduction to the Understanding of His Philosophical Activity

“All Taliban are moderate. There are two things: extremism ['ifraat,' or doing something to excess] and conservatism ['tafreet,' or doing something insufficiently]. So in that sense, we are all moderates - taking the middle path.”

Two Path Middle Two Things Excess Moderates Conservatism Extremism Middle Path

Author:Mohammed Omar

“When America was first made known to Europe, the part assumed by France on the borders of that new world was peculiar, and is little recognized. While the Spaniard roamed sea and land, burning for achievement, red-hot with bigotry and avarice, and while England, with soberer steps and a less dazzling result, followed in the path of discovery and gold-hunting, it was from France that those barbarous shores first learned to serve the ends of peaceful commercial industry.”

Source: France and England in North America: Pioneers of France in the New World. The Jesuits of North America in the seventeenth century. La Salle and the discovery of the Great West. The old régime in Canada

“The beginning is never the clear, precise end of a thread, the beginning is a long, painfully slow process that requires time and patience in order to find out in which direction it is heading, a process that feels its way along the path ahead like a blind man the beginning is just the beginning, what came before is nigh on worthless.”

Men Way Feels Long Ends Order Process Path Clear Blind Thread Precise Worthless Headings Blind Man Time And Patience

Author:Jose Saramago

“Often when you ask for one thing you receive another, this is the mysterious thing about prayer, we address them to heaven with some private intention, but they choose their own path, sometimes they delay, allowing other prayers to overtake them, frequently they overlap and become hybrid prayers of dubious origin, which quarrel and argue among themselves.”

Sometimes Asks Heaven Prayer Path One Thing Intention Arguing Mysterious Addresses Allowing Delay Quarrels Hybrid Dubious Mysterious Things

Author:Jose Saramago

“Social Democracy preached against capitalism for half a century. After the November revolution the Reds had the opportunity to direct capitalism into the proper paths: but nothing happened!”

Opportunity Social Half Democracy Path Happened Century Revolution Capitalism Direct November Half A Century Social Democracy

Author:Julius Streicher

“From this new point of view, the universe I had inhabited became an object I could perceive in its entirety. It was a hypersphere embedded in a cloud of alternative states - the sum of all possible quantum trajectories from the big bang to the decay of matter. "Reality" - history as we had known or inferred it - was only the most likely of these possible trajectories. There were countless others, real in a different sense: a vast but finite set of paths not taken, a ghostly forest of quantum alternatives, the shores of an unknown sea.”