“Then I saw it. I saw a mom who would die for her son. A man who would kill for his wife. A boy, angry and alone. Laid out in front of him, the bad path. I saw it. And the path was a circle. Round and round. So I changed it.” MenDiesBoysPathSawsWifeFrontsChangedSonMomAngryRoundsCircles Author:Rian Johnson
“Too many people believe they can control their drug of choice. But the drug is almost always in control. If an addict truly wants help, it is available, but it is a rocky path. The monster always calls. Never give an addict money. Clothe them. Feed them. But enabling them is the quickest path to watching them fade away completely. This may seem harsh. But I've watched my own child relapse, after six years sober. I love her. Always. But I can't help her die.” PeopleIfsWantGivingYearsBelieveMayChildrenI CanHelpingSeemsDiesChoicesMy OwnPathDrugSixAvailableMonstersFadesHarshSoberAddictEnablingFade AwayRelapse Author:Ellen Hopkins
“Virtue, opening heaven to those who do not deserve to die, makes her course by paths untried. [Lat., Virtus, recludens immeritis mori Coelum, negata tentat iter via.]” DiesCoursesHeavenVirtuePathDeserveOpening Author:Horace
“Gangsters live for the action. The closer to death, the nearer to the heated coil of the moment, the more alive they feel. Most would rather succumb to a barrage of bullets from a roomful of sworn enemies than to the debilitation of old age, dying the death of the feeble. A gangster becomes as addicted to the thrill of the battle and the potential to die in the midst of it as he does to he more attractive lures in his path. In his world, the potential for death exists every day. The better gangsters don't shy away from such a dreaded possibility but rather find comfort in its proximity.” WorldFeelsDoeMomentsAgeActionDiesEnemyPathAliveDyingPossibilityComfortBattleOld AgeAttractiveShyMidstBulletsThrillGangstersLureProximity Book:Gangster Source: Gangster
“Curiosity illuminates the correct path to anything in life. If you're not curious, that's when your brain is starting to die.” IfsDiesBrainPathCuriosityStartingCuriousAnything In Life Author:Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
“The Internet is going to change marketing before it changes almost anything else, and old marketing will die in its path.” DiesPathInternetMarketing Author:Seth
“But as Van casually directed the searchlight of backthought into that maze of the past where the mirror-lined narrow paths not only took different turns, but used different levels (as a mule-drawn cart passes under the arch of a viaduct along which a motor skims by), he found himself tackling, in still vague and idle fashion, the science that was to obsess his mature years - problems of space and time, space versus time, time-twisted space, space as time, time as space - and space breaking away from time, in the final tragic triumph of human cogitation: I am because I die.” YearsHumansStillsDifferentProblemPastUsedDiesTurnsFoundSpaceLevelsPathFashionMirrorsFinalsTriumphTragicMatureIdleVagueVersusTime And SpaceVansTwistedMotorCartsMazesArchesDifferent LevelsMulesTacklingNarrow PathBreaking Away Author:Vladimir Nabokov
“One of the great errors organizations make is shutting down what is a natural, life-enhancing process-chaos. We are terrified of chaos. As a manager, it signals failure. But if you move out of control and into an appreciation of natural order, you understand that the only way a system changes is when it is far from equilibrium, when it moves from the 'quiet' we treasure and is confronted with the choice to die or reorganize. And you can't reorganize to a higher level unless you risk the perils of the path through chaos.” IfsWayMovingOrderDiesChoicesProcessNaturalLevelsPathRiskHigherQuietOrganizationErrorsChaosAppreciationTreasureManagersTerrifiedSignalsPerilEquilibriumHigher LevelNatural OrderNatural LifeShutting DownSystems Change Author:Margaret J. Wheatley
“I too did not want to take the path of a warrior. I believed that all that work was for nothing, and since we are all going to die what difference would it make to be a warrior? I was wrong. But I had to find that out for myself. Whenever you do realize that you are wrong, and that it certainly makes a world of difference, you can say that you are convinced. And then you can proceed by yourself. Any by yourself you may even become a man of knowledge” MenWorldWantMayDiesRealizingDifferencesPathConvincedWarrior Book:Journey to Ixtlan Source: Journey to Ixtlan
“Come out into the broad light of day, come out from the little narrow paths, for how can the infinite soul rest content to live and die in small ruts?” LittlesSoulLightDiesPathInfiniteBroadsRutsNarrow Path Book:Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind Source: Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind
“Let me put it in a rather larger picture framework. Let's go to the longest time frame, the time frame of the life of our sun. As a star, our sun is about halfway through its life cycle. In the long run, we only have a couple of billion more years likely that we can inhabit this planet. By that time, we're going to have to be out of here before our sun dies. Now, I don't think we need to wait that long, and we certainly shouldn't wait that long. At the moment, we are not on a sustainable path.” ThinkingNeedsYearsLongMomentsRunningDiesStarsWaitingSunPathPlanetsCoupleLet MeBillionsCyclesLong RunsFrameworkHalfway Author:Edgar Mitchell