Pathways quotes
114 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"You are an eternal being now on the pathway of endless unfoldment, never less but always more yourself. Life is not static. It is forever dynamic, forever creatingnot something done and finished, but something alive, awake and aware. There is something within you that sings the song of eternity. Listen to it."
"Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure."
"Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle."
"So important to keep the pathway of success clean."
"Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure."
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"Our vision is beclouded and the pathway of our progress is obstructed until we come to know that god can and does express as Good in every person and every situation."
"The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere."
"Humans arose ... as a fortuitous and contingent outcome of thousands of linked events, any one of which could have occurred differently and sent history on an alternative pathway that would not have led to consciousness."
"Music is the pathway to the heart."
"Each one of us decides to incarnate upon this planet at a particular point in time and space. We have chosen to come here to learn a particular lesson that will advance us upon our spiritual, evolutionary pathway."
"Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live."
"You can lead your brain and inspire it. You can actively shape new neural pathways."
"Anti-social behaviour still blights lives, wrecks communities and provides a pathway to criminality."
"At a minimum, in explaining evolutionary pathways through time, the constraints imposed by history rise to equal prominence with the immediate advantages of adaptation."
"Most long lives resemble those threads of gossamer, the nearest approach to nothing unmeaningly prolonged, scarce visible pathways of some worm from his cradle to his grave."
"Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal."
"The pathways of crime are clearly marked. There's a doublecross on every corner."
"Hunger, disease and poverty can lead to global instability and leave a vacuum for extremism to fill. So instead of just managing poverty, we must offer nations and people a pathway out of poverty. And as president I've made development a pillar of our foreign policy, alongside diplomacy and defense."
"Hostility and hatred are no match for justice; they offer no pathway to peace."
"[Albert Camus] also says that nothing is true which forces exclusion. From that, you're obliged to accept contradictions if you don't want to reject certain obvious things about life, certain evidences. If you create a system, and you say 'here there is truth', in that kind of pathway [chemin], then you'll evacuate all the other pathways and you'll kill life. It's up to each individual."
"It is time to browse through the precious books that have meant the most to you that you may rediscover illuminating phrases and sentences to light your pathway to the future."
"I worry that the Senate is working to consider a series of little-noticed provisions in comprehensive immigration reform that may provide a pathway to a national ID card for all individuals present in the United States - citizens and noncitizens."
"The pathways that have led to our evolution are quirky, improbable, unrepeatable and utterly unpredictable."
"When you repeat a new pattern often, you literally change the neural pathways in your brain. This shift helps true change settle in."
"If your virtue is especially radiant, it can be possible to open a pathway to the subtle realm and receive these celestial teachings directly from the immortals."
