"The path to guidance is one of love and compassion, not of force and coercion."
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"The path up is the path down. The way forward is the way back. The universe inside is outside but the universe outside is inside."
"There's a path from your HEART to mine."
"No one behind, no one ahead. The path the ancients cleared has closed. And the other path, everyone's path, easy and wide, goes nowhere. I am alone and find my way."
"Rover did not know in the least where the moon's path led to, and at present he was much too frightened and excited to ask, and anyway he was beginning to get used to extraordinary things happening to him."
"You yourself must earnestly practice, the enlightened ones only proclaim the path."
"The paths of glory at least lead to the Grave, but the paths of duty may not get you Anywhere."
"For as long as they praise you, never forget that it is not yet your own path that you walk, but another person's."
"Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the end of that path, an act awaits them, their act."
"I confess that I have not cleared a path through all seven hundred pages, I confess to having examined only bits and pieces, and yet I know what it is, with that bold and legitimate certainty with which we assert our knowledge of a city, without ever having been rewarded with the intimacy of all the many streets it includes."
"If you can see your path clearly in front of you, it's probably someone else's."
"Each path to knowledge involves different rules and these rules are not interchangeable."
"Obedience is a foundational stepping-stone on the path of God’s will."
"True power comes from standing in your own truth and walking your own path."
"The Law of Detachment: 1) Allow yourself and others the freedom to be who they are. 2) Do not force solutions - allow solutions to spontaneously emerge. 3) Uncertainty is essential, and you path to freedom."
"The moment I began to understand what was going on with the treatment of animals, it led me more and more in the way of the path I am [on] now, which is a complete vegan."
"On the path of actions, great heart is the chief recommendation; on that works, a great head."
"To have compromise you must first have dialog. That is the true path of democracy."
"When the Nobel Committee chose to honor me, the road I had chosen of my own free will became a less lonely path to follow."
"There is no greater mistake than to suppose that platitudes, smooth words, timid policies, offer today a path to safety."