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Quotes About Paths

Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, - roads have long since come to seem so much a part of Nature that we have grown to think of them as a feature of the landscape no less natural than rocks and trees.
~ Richard Le Gallienne
A society where everyone is following his own unique path has a much better chance to find the truth than the society where everyone is following some known cliché paths!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Explore your untamed dreams and you just might find a unique place where a confluence of paths lead towards your destiny.
~ Kathy Goodhew, Confluence
We are not mad. We are human.We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.
~ Leonard Cohen
We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most diverse and interesting of conceivable universes—one indifferent to our suffering, and therefore offering us maximum freedom to thrive, or to fail, in our own chosen way.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
Streams of consequence flow from every action, and from every conflict there are two paths by which events may go.
~ Stephen R. Lawhead
It's funny how, in this journey of life, even though we may begin at different times and places, our paths cross with others so that we may share our love, compassion, observations, and hope. This is a design of God that I appreciate and cherish.
~ Steve Maraboli
All at once I understood that it had only been my illusion that we ourselves saddle events and control their courses; the truth is that they aren't our stories at all, that they are foisted on us from somewhere outside; that in no way do they represent us; that we are not to blame for the strange paths they follow; that they are themselves directed from who knows where by who knows what strange forces.
~ Milan Kundera
I'm afraid of committing myself, " she thought to herself. She wanted to follow all possible paths and so ended up following none.
~ Paulo Coelho, Brida
We grow not through the words we read or the lessons we see, but through the love we feel & and the paths we lead.
~ Robert Vanleeuwen
Contrary to popular belief, Navigators did not themselves fold space; the Holtzman engines did that. They used their limited prescience to choose safe paths to travel. A ship could move through the void without a Navigator's guidance, but that perilous guessing game invariably led to disaster. A Guild Navigator did not guarantee a safe journey—but he vastly improved the odds. Problems still arose when unforeseen events occurred.
~ Brian Herbert
Besides, reality did not require that you forgo your dreams, and dreams sometimes revealed paths that led to new realities.
~ Terry Brooks
All of us have our own journeys.
~ Kieran Trippier
Sometimes we make decisions because it seems to be the only path visible at the moment. It's only later that we see there was more than one path, but the others were blocked from our vision at the time. That's the thing with hindsight, you see. Even if you can see it clearly, there's no going back. It's at that point we need to turn around and stare ahead and make a new life.
~ Karen White
We live, we love. These are the choices we are given, to open doors or to close them. It is all we have, and it is enough.
~ Karen White
Now I know all city parks are the same. Hyde Park. The bluffs above Santa Monica. The Tuileries. Just paths beneath trees where people walk in varying states of heartbreak. Staggering between divorces and biopsies. And at the edge, one final row of lavender azaleas.
~ Kate Braverman
We are all living, at most, half of a life. There was the life that you lived, which consisted of the choices you made. And then, there was the other life, the one that was the things you hadn't chosen.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
There was the life that you lived, which consisted of the choices you made. And then, there was the other life, the one that was the things you hadn't chosen.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
He turned to the startled king, still kneeling on the floor stunned. He threw the sword clanging onto the floor by Saul. "That is what you should have done." Saul was speechless. Samuel said, "I am going to Ramah. Our paths shall never cross again — this side of Sheol." Samuel left.
~ Brian Godawa
Life is a maze of doors, and all too often they are closed.
~ brookner anita ii
Every one soon or late comes round by Rome.
~ browning robert iii
Life is a veil, its paths are dark and rough Only because we do not know enough When Science has discovered something more We shall be happier than we were before.
~ Hilaire Belloc
people approach the goal from different directions, so there must be multiple trails to the common destination.
~ Huston Smith
God has made different religions to suit different aspirations, times, and countries. All doctrines are only so many paths; but a path is by no means God Himself. Indeed, one can reach God if one follows any of the paths with whole-hearted devotion.
~ Huston Smith