Path Quotes - Page 14

The recurring theme of all religions is a sympathy, empathy, connection, capacity between the human and the divine - that we were made for union with one another. They might express this through different rituals, doctrines, dogmas, or beliefs, but at the higher levels they're talking about the same goal. And the goal is always union with the divine.

Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.

My advice for anyone who wants to follow in my footsteps: create your own path, hone your talent, be ready to show your talent, and don't doubt yourself.

The absolute worst thing you can do in a scene is be apathetic.

A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.

You have it in your power to make your days on Earth a path of flowers, instead of a path of thorns.

My knowledge of myself is direct, synthetic, from within outwards; my knowledge of other persons is indirect, analytical, from outside inwards. My knowledge of myself starts at the core; that of others at the crust.

Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths.

He has not truly lived who has not lived for others, in sympathy and in harmony with his fellows.

Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it.

A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy.

A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood.

Luckily, however, life doesn't always follow tradition, but craves out a path of its own.

Turning a human being into a thing, an object, is almost always the first step towards justifying violence against that person. It is very difficult, perhaps impossible, to be violent to someone we think of as an equal, someone we have empathy with, but it is very easy to abuse a thing

Any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy, which qualifies life for immortality.

Alas! we must suffer ourselves before we can feel for others.

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.

Being idealistic really helps you overcome some of the many obstacles put in your path.

We must never allow the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is humanity's sympathy with all creatures that first makes us truly human.

I do what I feel is right. I do not fear to walk on a new path and take risk.

Writing a poem is a lesson in the truest empathy. And to truly have empathy is to truly know power, or at least the only kind of power I’m interested in.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

Suffering and joy teach us, if we allow them, how to make the leap of empathy, which transports us into the soul and heart of another person.

I will continue my path, but I will keep a memory always.

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals.