Path Quotes - Page 11

I have a dream that I will fulfill. And nothing else will distract me from my path.

Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.

My favorite definition of the mindful path is the one the reveals itself as you walk down it. You cannot find the path until you step on to it.

[Robinson Crusoe] is the true prototype of the British colonist. The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious cruelty, the persistence, the slow yet efficient intelligence, the sexual apathy, the calculating taciturnity.

For some moments in life there are no words.

Nothing you love is lost. Not really. Things, people—they always go away, sooner or later. You can’t hold them, any more than you can hold moonlight. But if they’ve touched you, if they’re inside you, then they’re still yours. The only things you ever really have are the ones you hold inside your heart.

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.

I am even grateful to Einstein and others because through their erroneous theories they lead mankind away from that dangerous path I followed.

Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.

I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.

Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.

Jesus, Thou art all compassion, pure unbounded love Thou art; Visit us with Thy salvation, enter every trembling heart.

My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else.

If God sends us on stony paths, He will provide us with strong shoes.

Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive.

Peace of heart that is won by refusing to bear the common yoke of human sympathy is a peace unworthy of a Christian. To seek tranquility by stopping our ears to the cries of human pain is to make ourselves not Christian but a kind of degenerate stoic having no relation either to stoicism or Christianity.

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of lifes wisdom.

If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion.

Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.

Paths clear before those who know where they're going and are determined to get there.

When a stray animal crosses your path, it may be as close to God as you're going to get in this lifetime.

Understanding people's difficulties and-just as crucial-helping people understand their own difficulties and teaching them concrete ways to help themselves will help them better deal with their own lives and, in turn, ours.

Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle.

It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.

There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate; not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries.