"Courage isn't about knowing the path, it's about taking the first step."
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"Your decision to walk creates the path ahead"
"Aren't you ashamed, you who walk backward along the whole path of existence, and blame me for walking backward along the path of the promenade?"
"The natural tendency of all human behavior is toward the path of least resistance. When you resist this tendency, you become stronger and more powerful."
"Find a path or make one."
"The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition."
"There will always be a easy path and a right path."
"This is the entire spiritual life, Ananda, that is, good friendship, good companionship, good comradeship. When a monk has a good friend, a good companion, a good comrade, it is to be expected that he will develop and cultivate the Noble Eightfold Path."
"Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music."
"So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality."
"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."
"I think that one should view with philosophic admiration the strange paths of the libido and should investigate the purposes of its circuitous ways."
"The love to Wisdom is getting closer to the own bright path."
"The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men."
"Pessimism negates the existing world. Yet its negating is ambiguous. It can simply will decay and nothingness, but it can also renounce what exists and thus open a path for a new formation of the world."
"Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. (Walk, there is no path, the path is made by walking.)"
"You should not feel that your path is the only right path and that other paths are wrong. You mustn't bear malice toward others."
"Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being."
"One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it."
"Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there."