“The Great Way has no gate; / there are a thousand paths to it. / If you pass through the barrier, / you walk the universe alone.” IfsWayUniverseWalksPathThousandBarriersGates Author:Wumen Huikai
“The path of Zen is not easy. It's wonderful. It's beautiful beyond compare. You will experience more ecstasy and beauty than most people will in a thousand lifetimes.” PeopleBeautifulEasyPathWonderfulThousandLifetimeCompareEcstasyIntroduction Author:Frederick Lenz
“The great unrequited love tears open your heart to the beauty of the world, its small rivers and upland meadows. It also makes you kinder to the next hundred thousand persons who cross your path.” WorldLoveHeartPersonsNextPathTearsThousandHundredRiversCrossesUnrequited LoveMeadowsUnrequitedKinderOpen Your HeartBeauty Of The World Author:Garrison Keillor
“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.” LongBodyFormSpiritBornPathThousandTenEternalSeasonsRegardBlessedAncientBitterWanderMortalsBroadsBloodyLong LifeOathGoreHeirsDecreeUtteranceThrice Author:Empedocles
“At every crossway on the path that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past. Let us have no fear that the fair towers of former days be sufficiently defended. The least that the most timid among us can do is not to add to the immense dead weight that nature drags along.” MenPastSpiritCan DoPathThousandFairsWeightAddFormerPersistenceProgressiveDragImmenseTowersNo FearHave No Fear Author:Maurice Maeterlinck
“A confession you make merely to illuminate the murky corners of your little life may end up lighting the path to freedom for a thousand other hearts.” HeartMayLittlesEndsPathThousandCornersConfessionLighting Author:Martha Beck
“On the river path in Boston beauty was most expressed as youth and intelligence. That made sense; sixty degree-giving institutions, some three hundred thousand students; that meant at least one hundred fifty thousand more nubile young women than demographics would ordinarily suggest. Maybe that was why young men stayed in Boston when their college years were over, maybe that explained why they were so intellectually hyperactive, so frustrated, so alcoholic, such terrible drivers.” MenGivingYearsMadeYoungThreePathYouthStudentsCollegeTerribleThousandDegreesHundredRiversInstitutionsYoung ManFiftyDriversSixtyFrustratedYoung WomenBostonAlcoholicsDemographicsCollege Years Author:Kim Stanley Robinson
“As long as we have hope, we have direction, the energy to move, and the map to move by. We have a hundred alternatives, a thousand paths and an infinity of dreams. Hopeful, we are halfway to where we want to go; hopeless, we are lost forever.” WantLongDreamMovingEnergyLostForeverPathThousandHundredAlternativesHopefulMapsHopelessInfinityHalfwayHaving Hope Author:Laozi