Best stones & path Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid.”

Individual Path Progress Stones Responsible Smooth Rapids Stepping Stones

Author:Ernest Lawrence

“My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone. Sometimes I try to leave my narrow path and join the swirling mainstream of life, but I always find myself drawn inexorably back towards the chasm's edge, and there I shall walk until the day I finally fall into the abyss.”

Trying Has Beens Sometimes Whole Fall Sides Walks Path Danger Walking Stones Edges Whole Life Mainstream Abyss Jumping Chasms Narrow Path

Book:Edvard Munch: The Man and the Artist

Source: Edvard Munch: The Man and the Artist

“Step by step, a path; stone by stone, a cathedral,' my great-grandfather used to say.”

Used Steps Path Stones Construction Grandfather Cathedrals Great Grandfather

Book:Stoking the Creative Fires: 9 Ways to Rekindle Passion and Imagination

Source: Stoking the Creative Fires: 9 Ways to Rekindle Passion and Imagination

“March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.”

Life Moving Learning Path Sad Stones Perfection Bravery March Thorns Fear Not Strength And Wisdom Marching Forward

Author:Khalil Gibran

“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

“Geniuses were like storms or cyclones, pulling everything into their path, sticks and stones and dust.”

Path Genius Stones Sticks Storm Dust Pulling Sticks And Stones Cyclones

Author:Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“There have been many stones on my path, which frequently made me trip and give up, however I keep telling myself this is only momentary, I will get back up. Since it's our responsibility to return back the love that we have received from so many. That is why no matter how difficult or tough it becomes I cannot let go. And that is why no matter how difficult it becomes we are able to gain strength.”

Giving Has Beens Made Matter Able Difficult Responsibility Path Return Letting Go Giving Up Tough Gains Stones Get Back Momentary Return Back

Author:Kwon Yuri

“I discovered that some things are written for us. It's not that we can't change our ancestral bearings, or that the path or purpose of any of our lives is really written in stone. But what tends to happen sometimes is the path is so deeply inscribed in the birth that it becomes you and every variation away from it brings you back in ways that you are not controlling.”

Way Sometimes Happens Life Is Purpose Path Our Lives Written Birth Stones Variation Can't Change Written In Stone

Author:Maya Tiwari

“Do you not hear me calling, white deer with no horns? I have been changed to a hound with one red ear; I have been in the Path of Stones and the Wood of Thorns.”

Has Beens White Path Changed Lovers Calling Red Stones Ears Woods Horns Thorns Deer Hounds

Book:The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

“At noon, you walk across a river. It is dry, with not this much water: it is just stones and pebbles. But it rains cats and dogs in the mountains, and towards afternoon, the water descends wildly and she ravages all in its path, the madwoman. That is how death comes. Without our expecting it, and we cannot do a thing against it, brothers.”

Water Walks Path Fate Dog Brother Mountain Rain Rivers Stones Cat Dry Afternoon Expecting Noon Pebbles Cat And Dog

Author:Jacques Roumain

“To become indignant at [people's] conduct is as foolish as to be angry with a stone because it rolls into your path. And with many people the wisest thing you can do, is to resolve to make use of those whom you cannot alter.”

People Use Can Do Path Stones Angry Foolish Resolve Wisest Indignant

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“The garden reconciles human art and wild nature, hard work and deep pleasure, spiritual practice and the material world. It is a magical place because it is not divided. The many divisions and polarizations that terrorize a disenchanted world find peaceful accord among mossy rock walls, rough stone paths, and trimmed bushes. Maybe a garden sometimes seems fragile, for all its earth and labor, because it achieves such an extraordinary delicate balance of nature and human life, naturalness and artificiality. It has its own liminality, its point of balance between great extremes.”

“Obedience is a foundational stepping-stone on the path of God’s will.”

Path Stones Gods Will Obedience Stepping Stones

Book:A Woman After God's Own Heart®

Source: A Woman After God's Own Heart®

“A high character might be produced, I suppose, by continued prosperity, but it has very seldom been the case. Adversity, however it may appear to be our foe, is our true friend; and, after a little acquaintance with it, we receive it as a precious thing - the prophecy of a coming joy. It should be no ambition of ours to traverse a path without a thorn or stone.”

Should May Littles Character Might Joy Cases Path Ambition Stones Adversity Prosperity Prophecy Foe Acquaintance True Friend Precious Things Traverse

Book:The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 36: Sermons 2121-2181

Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 36: Sermons 2121-2181

“The only time we can fail is if we quit. Most perceived failures are only stepping stones being small problems encountered along the path to a goal. Obstacles are opportunities for growth, therefore, encourage and embrace them.”

Ifs Problem Opportunity Goal Growth Path Failing Stones Embrace Obstacles Quitting Only Time Stepping Stones Small Problems

Author:Arthur Frederick Saunders

“For every stone that [Pablo Escobar] threw, he would get many thrown back at him and us, his family, because we were the most vulnerable. In these types of extreme situations, we learned about the consequences of violence and that is why we did not go down the same path.”

Situation Path Violence Type Consequence Stones Extremes Vulnerable Thrown Pablo Escobar Consequences Of Violence

Author:Juan Pablo Escobar

“God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.”

Important Steps Path Walking Stones Important Things Climbs Roof Rope Stairs Bamboo

Book:The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

“In business, standards establish the rules of the game, creating path dependencies as investments are made and corresponding designs are set in stone and plastic. Inferior standards can prevail due to smart marketing or industry collusion.”

Made Games Path Design Industry Creating Smart Standards Stones Investment Marketing Dues Plastic Inferiors Dependency Corresponding Rules Of The Game Collusion

Author:Evgeny Morozov

“I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with strips of emerald cultivation either side. Away from the cliffs was the desert. There was no sound but the wind, whirring through thorns and whistling through dead grass, and no other sign of life but a hawk, and a black beetle easing over white stones.”

Sound Sides Black White Path Wind Rivers Stones Bones Desert Grass Streams Cliffs Thorns Cultivation Hawks Chile Whistling Beetles Emeralds Signs Of Life

Book:In Patagonia

Source: In Patagonia

“Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.”

Source: The Portable Voltaire

“A terrible premonition washed over me. This was how the whole world would end.... They would devour the forest and excrete piles of buildings made of stone wrenched from the earth or from dead trees. They would hammer paths of bare stone between their dwellings, and dirty the rivers and subdue the land until it could recall only the will of man. They could not stop themselves from doing what they did. They did not see what they did, and even if they saw, they did not know how to stop. They no longer knew what was enough.”

Source: The Complete Soldier Son Trilogy: Shaman’s Crossing, Forest Mage, Renegade’s Magic

“If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.”

Ifs World Love Hands Walks Teach Path Clear Son Stones Your Son

Book:The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)

“The direction of a big act will warp history, but probably all acts do the same in their degree, down to a stone stepped over in the path or the breath caught at sight of a pretty girl or a fingernail nicked in the garden soil.”

Bigs Girl Path Degrees Garden Stones Sight Breaths Caught Soil Pretty Girl Fingernails Warp

Book:East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“Stones and bones; snow and frost; seeds and beans and polliwogs. Paths and twigs, assorted kisses, We all know who Daddy misses! His two little frogs of girls, that’s who. They know where they are, do you, do you?”

Knows Littles Two Girl Path Missing Kissing Stones Bones Seeds Snow Daddy Frogs Beans Frost Twigs Assorted

Book:The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic

Source: The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic

“He lost his Self a thousand times and for days on end he dwelt in non-being. But although the paths took him away from Self, in the end they always led back to it. Although Siddhartha fled from the Self a thousand times, dwelt in nothing, dwelt in animal and stone, the return was inevitable; the hour was inevitable when he would again find himself in sunshine or in moonlight, in shadow or in rain, and was again Self and Siddhartha, again felt the torment of the onerous life cycle.”

Ends Self Lost Felt Hours Animal Path Return Thousand Shadow Rain Stones Inevitable Sunshine Cycles Torment Moonlight Siddhartha

Author:Hermann Hesse

“If we constantly focus on the stones in our mortal path, we will almost surely miss the beautiful flower or cool stream provided by a loving Father who outlined our journey.”

Ifs Beautiful Father Path Focus Journey Missing Flower Stones Mortals Streams Beautiful Flower

Author:Jeffrey R. Holland

“Do you remember the sight we saw, my soul, that soft summer morning round a turning in the path, the disgusting carcass on a bed scattered with stones, its legs in the air like a woman in need burning its wedding poisons like a fountain with its rhythmic sobs, I could hear it clearly flowing with a long murmuring sound, but I touch my body in vain to find the wound. I am the vampire of my own heart, one of the great outcasts condemned to eternal laughter who can no longer smile. Am I dead? I must be dead.”

“My mother once told me I was like water. Water can carve its way even through stone. And when trapped, water makes a new path.”

Way Mother Water Path Stones Trapped New Paths Geisha

Author:Arthur Golden

“I have lived in the redness of the stones that mark a path through my blood; I am the descendant of a forgotten race, but I carry in my hands the remnants of their fire.”

Hands Justice Race Path Fire Blood Diversity Stones Mark Social Justice Forgotten Descendants Remnants

Author:Mohammed Khair-Eddine

“The path to inspiration starts upon the trails we've known; each stumbling block is not a rock, but just a stepping stone.”

Inspiration Known Path Rocks Angel Stones Block Trails Stumbling Stepping Stones Stumbling Blocks

Author:Charles Ghigna

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