Path Quotes - Page 27

One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it.

He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.

Curiosity illuminates the correct path to anything in life. If you're not curious, that's when your brain is starting to die.

The road that I'm on is a path that I didn't choose. It chose me. I'm just trying to walk it, and to do the best that I can to honor and respect it.

Empathy comes from being empathized with.

The buddha called suffering a holy truth, because our suffering has the capacity of showing us the path to liberation. Embrace your suffering and let it reveal to you the way to peace.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

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.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

People go down bad paths and they make bad decisions, but it's always justified in their head.

There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people.

Come now, my child, if we were planning to harm you, do you think we'd be lurking here beside the path in the very darkest part of the forest?

Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide

With options thus foreclosed, in order to protect and defend the nation and clear the obstacles that stood in its path, a decisive appeal to arms was made.

The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.

A human life is a story told by God.

Scientists announced today that they have discovered a cure for apathy. However, they claim no one has shown the slightest interest in it.

I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we’d known the bonobo first and the chimpanzee only later—or not at all. The discussion about human evolution might not revolve as much around violence, warfare and male dominance, but rather around sexuality, empathy, caring and cooperation. What a different intellectual landscape we would occupy!

The moment you begin a serious study of the scriptures, you will find greater power to resist temptation. You will find the power to avoid deception. You will find the power to stay on the straight and narrow path.... When you begin to hunger & thirst after those words, you will find life in greater abundance.

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.

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 love to Wisdom is getting closer to the own bright path.

Empathy is a special way of coming to know another and ourself, a kind of attuning and understanding. When empathy is extended, it satisfies our needs and wish for intimacy, it rescues us from our feelings of aloneness.

I think that one should view with philosophic admiration the strange paths of the libido and should investigate the purposes of its circuitous ways.

Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.