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“One should not think, 'My religion alone is the right path and other religions are false.' God can be realized by means of all paths. It is enough to have sincere yearning for God. Infinite are the paths and infinite are the opinions.”

Thinking Should Mean Enough Religion Opinion Path Infinite Sincere Yearning Right Path False Gods

Book:The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

“I mean I am not Hilary Duff. Like I have my own path that I'm going to go on.”

Mean My Own Path Goes On

Author:Sara Paxton

“But the path you end up on means that you have to close a lot of doors, too.”

Mean Ends Path Doors

Author:John Slattery

“If we keep the path of virtue undefiled through devout and true knowledge, and do not deviate to either side, we will experience the advent of God revealed to us because of our dispassion. For 'I will sing a psalm and in a pure path I will understand when Thou wilt come to me' (cf. Ps. 101:1-2). The psalm stands for virtuous conduct; understanding indicates the spiritual knowledge, gained through virtue, by means of which we perceive God's advent, when we wait for the Lord vigilant in the virtues.”

“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

“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

“Being on the path means we again meditate with joy. We deal with the suffering of life and the pain of existence without perfect enlightenment with a smile.”

Mean Pain Joy Suffering Perfect Deals Existence Path Enlightenment Intention

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Zen is a very quick path. Zen is the path of meditation. The word Zen means emptiness or fullness, meditation. Meditation is the quickest path to enlightenment.”

Mean Path Meditation Enlightenment Emptiness Fullness Introduction Path To Enlightenment

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The gods have provided me with clear and compelling signs of what it means to live in conformity to nature. They did their part. So far as their gifts, aid, and inspiration are concerned, nothing prevented me from following the path prescribed by nature. If from time to time I have strayed from this path, the fault lies with me and with my failure to heed the gods' signs, or rather, their explicit instructions.”

Ifs Mean Inspiration Lying Path Clear Concerned Faults Following Aids Conformity Instruction Compelling Heed Explicit

Book:The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations

Source: The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations

“If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the cause of Education. It has intrinsic and indestructible merits. It holds the welfare of mankind in its embrace, as the protecting arms of a mother hold her infant to her bosom. The very ignorance and selfishness which obstructs its path are the strongest arguments for its promotion, for it furnishes the only adequate means for their removal.”

Source: Thoughts

“Conflict, not progress, is the word that defines man's path from darkness into light. No holiness is won by any other means than this, that wickedness should be slain day by day, and hour by hour.”

Men Should Mean Light Hours Darkness Path Progress Conflict Holiness Wickedness

Book:MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture

Source: MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture

“I read a Bruce Lee quote that shifted how I'm trying to live my life right now. He said, "Some targets are only meant to be aimed at." Right? And I took that to mean a shift for myself from goal orientation to path orientation.”

Trying Mean Said Goal Path Right Now Target Meant To Be Living My Life Orientation

Author:Will Smith

“Passion means making the choice to do that for which we can make the greatest difference. It means saying no to opportunities that may be good but not the best. It means that the best path is not always the easiest path.”

May Mean Choices Passion Opportunity Differences Path Be Good Saying No

Book:Breakout Churches: Discover How to Make the Leap

Source: Breakout Churches: Discover How to Make the Leap

“The path to a better future goes directly through our public schools. I have nothing against private schools, parochial schools and home schooling, and I think that parents with the means and inclination should choose whatever they believe is best for their children. But those choices cannot compete, and cannot come at the expense of what has been -- and what must always be -- the great equalizer in our society, a free and equal public education.”

“Particular honour belongs to those who believed in the possibility of mechanical flight when all the world was against them; not the visionaries because they hoped for it merely, but those who by sheer force of intellect perceived the means by which it could be accomplished and directed their experiments along the right path. ... The name of Lilienthal is now among the most honoured, but curiously his own countrymen were the last to recognize the value of his work.”

World Mean Lasts Values Names Force Path Possibility Particular Intellect Experiments Flight Accomplished Honour Sheer Visionaries Right Path Countrymen

Author:Otto Lilienthal

“We live in a world where people don't all have the same scruples, where all blows can be given, and where, in order to down somebody, all means can be used. Nothing will lead me astray from the path that I have chosen.”

People World Mean Used Order Given Path Blow Chosen Leading Me Scruples

Author:Nicolas Sarkozy

“The advanced education in Tantra obviously has to do with the entrance into samadhi, the negation of the self. That is what the path of negation means, not the negation of life, but the negation of anything that is not enlightenment.”

Mean Self Path Enlightenment Concentration Entrances Tantra Samadhi Negation Advanced Education

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you look around us, there are an awful lot of men out there, and women, but mostly men, who believe that they have got a fast-track path to Heaven, if they do the things that they believe God is telling them to do, and I don't just mean Islamic people. I mean Fundamentalist Christians.”

People Ifs Men Believe Looks Mean Christian Heaven Path Track Awful Islamic Believe In God Fundamentalist

Author:James Purefoy

“Method means primarily a way or path of transit. From this we are to understand that the first idea of method is a progressive transition from one step to another in any course. If in the right course, it will be the true method; if in the wrong, we cannot hope to progress.”

Ifs Way Firsts Mean Ideas Courses Steps Path Progress Method Progressive Transition

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“I see myself as a student. I would never call myself a master or a maestro. If you take the path of the student, that means you have to try a little bit of everything in hopes that you're going to learn something or strike some kind of new note, expression in the process. I'm not going for grades; I'm going for an education. I'm going to continue experimenting and trying new things to try to evolve and learn.”

Ifs Trying Kind Mean Littles Bits Process Sound Path Students Expression Masters Little Bit Notes Strikes Evolve Grades New Things Trying New Things Maestro

Author:Nicolas Cage

“The fact that men have a same origin and live in the same universe means that they are representatives of a same unity. Deep down, they are also related (or connected) among them; that they consider (or not) themselves as strangers, this just depends on the feeling (or sensation) that dictate their relationships. In their country, two fellow coutrymen whose paths berely cross (or see each only only briefly) with inferrence, would effusively rush themselves up (or throw themselves) into each other arms if they would happen to meet in a desert, among Cannibles.”

Ifs Men Mean Two Country Facts Feelings Happens Universe Path Arms Depends Crosses Fellows Unity Stranger Connected Desert Related Sensations Representatives Deep Down

Author:African Spir

“'Don't be the moth. Be the light bulb.' When I say that I mean don't follow the crowd. Just shine. Be the light bulb. Do your thing. Pave your own path.”

Mean Light Path Shining Crowds Bulbs Moths Light Bulb

Author:Sara Paxton

“As an individual, I think you have to find your own path. I like the simplicity and purity of Hinduism and many elements of Buddhism. These are all means of accessing spiritual energy.”

Thinking Mean Spiritual Individual Energy Path Buddhism Elements Simplicity Purity Hinduism Spiritual Energy

Author:Dave Davies

“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.”

Way Want Needs Mean Path Clear Danger Revolution Clean Climate Climate Change Prosperity Rely Fuel Fossils Fossil Fuel Industrial Revolution Burning Fossil Fuels

Author:Ban Ki-moon

“In the 17 years since I graduated from this great College of Law, I have seen that, for many of us, it becomes increasingly easy to rationalize our actions in the name of expediency when facing difficult decisions-to choose a path where the ends justify the means. I want to ask you to challenge Machiavelli's philosophy. I want to humbly suggest that you be the guardians of a more complicated truth: that the means are as important-and sometimes even more important-than the ends.”

“One of the most effective means of seduction that Evil has is the challenge to struggle. It is like the struggle with women, whichends in bed. A married man's true deviations from the path of virtue are, rightly understood, never gay.”

Men Mean Evil Women Challenges Struggle Virtue Path Gay Bed Married Understood Seduction Deviation Married Man

Book:The Blue Octavo Notebooks

Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks

“You yourself create all your misery, hour after hour, day after day. You think the goal justifies the means, even the vile means. You are wrong: The goal is in the path on which you arrive at it. Every step of today is your life of tomorrow. No great goal can be reached by vile means. That you have proven in every social revolution. The vileness or inhumanity of the path to the goal makes you vile or inhuman, and the goal unattainable.”

Thinking Mean Today Social Goal Hours Steps Path Revolution Tomorrow Misery Justify Proven Every Step Inhuman Inhumanity Unattainable Social Revolution After Hours

Author:Wilhelm Reich

“Faith in God's promises means not always following the expected, rational path.”

Mean Path Promise Following Expected Rational Faith In God Promise Me

Author:Timothy Keller

“Only by walking with God can we hope to find the path that leads to life. That is what it means to be a disciple. After all -- aren't we 'followers of Christ'? Then by all means, let's actually follow him. Not ideas about him. Not just his principles. Him.”

Mean Ideas Christ Principles Path Walking Followers Disciple Walking With God

Book:Knowing the Heart of God: A Year of Devotional Readings to Help You Abide in Him

Source: Knowing the Heart of God: A Year of Devotional Readings to Help You Abide in Him

“There is much in American society which I admire, but I have long held the view that the absence of an effective safety net in that country means that too many needy citizens fall by the wayside. That is not the path that Australia will tread. Nor do we want the burdens of nanny state paternalism that now weigh down many economies in Europe.”

Want Mean Long Country States Fall Views Economy Path Citizens Europe Safety Burden Absence Admire Australia Needy American Society Safety Net Nannies Paternalism

Author:John Howard

“One of my teachers once said that the way you know you're on the right path is that it works. Now, that doesn't mean you don't run into blocks and brick walls, but it does mean that you can find a way around them or find a way to change yourself or your project in order to find the flow again and have it work.”

Knows Way Mean Doe Said Running Order Path Teacher Wall Projects Flow Block Bricks Right Path Change Yourself Brick Wall

Author:James Redfield

“As we blossom or awaken, we begin to notice there is a force in the world that seems to be operating and leading us into a certain destiny. And it's very much a kind of detective effort on our own part to figure out what these things mean. The synchronicity is essentially a meaningful coincidence that brings us information at just the right time. While leading us forward, it also feels very inspiring and destined in a way. It feels like we're on a path of unfolding in our own personal evolution.”

“Thank the Lord, Germanic democracy means just this: that any old climber or moral slacker cannot rise by devious paths to govern his national comrades, but that, by the very greatness of the responsibility to be assumed, incompetents and weaklings are frightened of.”

Mean Responsibility Moral Lord Democracy Path Greatness Frightened Comrade Climbers Devious Slacker

Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf

“I think that you take the path of least resistance. And for a lot of people comedy is that path. I mean, even against mainstream, it's easier to sell a comedy than a drama.”

People Thinking Mean Path Comedy Easier Drama Sells Resistance Mainstream Path Of Least Resistance

Author:Kevin Grevioux

“Just because you think the path that's right for you might be lonelier, longer or less destined for traditional success than paths taken by others, don't be afraid to take it. If you choose your means well you will end up in the right place.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Mean Ends Might Path Taken Traditional You Choose Destined Right Place

Author:Beau Biden

“Following Jesus means taking up one's own cross to accompany him on his path, an uncomfortable path that is not one of success or earthly glory, but which leads to true freedom, the freedom from selfishness and sin.”

Mean Jesus Sin Path Glory Crosses Following Selfishness Uncomfortable Accompany Following Jesus True Freedom

Author:Pope Francis

“On the pilgrim's path each man must become Moses, going on a vision quest to some mountaintop and returning with the ten or twenty commandments that he holds sacred. So long as we obey or break the rules that have been set up for us by the Giants - Parents and other Authorities - we remain good or bad children. Growing into the fullness of our humanity means that we become co-authors of the rules by which we will agree to have our lives judged.”

Men Mean Children Long Has Beens Humanity Parent Vision Break Path Our Lives Growing Ten Authority Twenties Agree Sacred Giants Judged Quests Commandments Fullness Moses Pilgrim Growing Children

Author:Sam Keen

“It would be very curious to record by means of photographs, not the stage of the picture, but its metamorphoses. Perhaps one would perceive the path taken by the mind in order to put its dreams into a concrete form. But what is really very curious is to observe that fundamentally the picture does not change, that despite appearances the initial vision remains almost intact.”

Mind Mean Doe Dream Would Be Form Order Vision Path Taken Records Stage Remains Photograph Appearance Despite Curious Perceive Concrete Initials Metamorphosis

Author:Pablo Picasso

“What is a defeat? It is just a good opportunity to make a new start, nothing else! Defeat is by no means a tragedy, but to consider it as a tragedy is in fact the greatest tragedy! In your every defeat, you must know that the paths of the victory never disappear; try those roads again!”

Knows Trying Mean Facts Opportunity Path Victory Tragedy Defeat Disappear New Start Good Opportunity

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“It is not the place of the theatre to show the correct path, but only to offer the means by which all possible paths may be examined.”

May Mean Shows Path Offers Theatre

Book:Theater of the Oppressed

Source: Theater of the Oppressed

“I get very nostalgic for times and places and experiences, but I have a wonderful group of core friends and family who I love and adore, so I don't mourn the loss of any particular friendship. I think they're all part of a path, and the ones that really mean something are still important in my life.”

Thinking Mean Stills Important Loss Path Wonderful Groups Particular Core Adore Family And Friends Really Mean Mourn Nostalgic

Author:Katie Aselton

“Some people will follow their minds without listening to their hearts, and others will follow their hearts without listening to their minds. This is why reason exists, for there to be balance between the heart and mind. We were not meant to follow the mind and ignore the heart. Instead, we were meant to follow the heart over the mind, but without completely abandoning logic. The middle way is the preferred way, and this path simply means to allow your heart to drive you, but do not forget to balance reason with your conscience.”

People Way Mind Heart Mean Reason Forget Path Middle Listening Balance Conscience Logic Heart And Mind Middle Way

Author:Suzy Kassem

“Renounce to the desire of possessing worldly things: this is the first step in the path of perfection; by mean of this absolute untie is how the passions can be fought.”

Firsts Mean Desire Passion Steps Path Perfection Absolutes First Steps Worldly Possessing Renounce Worldly Things

Author:Eliphas Levi

“I like to think of the landscape not as a fixed place but as a path that is unwinding before my eyes, under my feet. To see and know a place is a contemplative act. It means emptying our minds and letting what is there, in all its mulitplicity and endless variety, come in.”

Thinking Knows Mind Mean Eye Path Feet Endless Variety Landscape Fixed Contemplative

Author:Gretel Ehrlich

“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their natural sloth tempting them on the other. They are terrified at the prospect before them, of the toil required to attain exactness. The impetuosity of youth is disgusted at the slow approaches of a regular siege, and desires, from mere impatience of labour, to take the citadel by storm. They wish to find some shorter path to excellence, and hope to obtain the reward of eminence by other means, than those which the indispensable rules of art have prescribed.”

Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

“There is no map, and charting a path ahead will not be easy. We will need to invent, which means we will need to experiment.”

Needs Mean Easy Path Experiments Maps Charting

Author:Jeff Bezos

“People on the Spiritual Path are not anemic. They must be sharp, strong, and courageous. Being Spiritual means being Powerful, Dynamic, and Intelligent.”

People Mean Spiritual Strong Powerful Path Intelligent Courageous Spiritual Path

Author:Choa Kok Sui

“In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed.”

People Mind Mean Doe Real Past Black Community White Perfect Path Unions Currents Discrimination African American Legacy Black People Incidents

Author:Barack Obama

“Walking your path doesn't mean you don't hurt, it means the pain is worth the progress. Sometimes you have to break something down in order to remake it, and that includes yourself, or it did for me. There were moments when I wept for an easier road, but in the end I would not trade my path for anyone else's. It is mine and the traveling of it has made me who I am, and continues to shape and remold me into the best, happiest, most productive, most playful me, I've ever been.”

Mean Made Ends Sometimes Moments Pain Order Hurt Break Path Progress Mines Walking Easier Shapes Trade Who I Am Productive Remakes

Author:Laurell K. Hamilton

“Living rationally and authentically does not mean that you map out your future by thinking carefully about what it would be like if you chose one path versus another path and then choosing on that basis.”

Ifs Thinking Mean Doe Would Be Path Bases Maps Our Future Versus Your Future

Author:L.A. Paul