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"I don't know what I'm going to write when I begin to write. It feels like you are walking down a path, but you can't see around the bend and you don't know where you are going to go, which is fun."
"Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction."
"God will help you make the choices that guide you into His path for each stage and age of your life."
"Thou shall know by experience how salt the savor is of others' bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs."
"We pray that Aung San Suu Kyi and her country are now on a path to freedom"
"I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers, an often painful process."
"Moral failure occurs when people lose focus and gradually drift off the path."
"[Our] first and foremost duty [is] to seek the Lord until we open the path of communication from God to our own soul."
"Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness."
"The most valuable moments and experiences that life has to offer are found only along its most treacherous paths."
"Don't just climb the ladder, chart a new path."
"Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it works so as positively to hinder future resolutions and emotions from taking the normal path of discharge."
"The path is smooth that leadeth on to danger."
"His high endeavours are an inward light That makes the path before him always bright."
"Lit majors are not known for watching where they're going; most of us walk with our eyes in a book instead of on the path ahead."
"Today you will choose your factions. Until this point you have followed your parents’ paths, your parents’ rules. Today you will find your own path, make your own rules."
"Surely the true path is to dive deep into nature."
"Masters are not experts because they take a subject to its conceptual end. They are masters because they realize that there isn't one. On utterly smooth ground, the path from aim to attainment is in the permanent future."
"Whatever your path is, that's your path."
"Time really has gone by fast. I don’t know if your path is pre-written or what, but it’s crazy how one thing just leads to another."
