Path Quotes - Page 44

The thing that kills me is all these bands that use huge words in their lyrics, 'I'm swimming in a vortex of apathy.' I'm like, 'What?' I don't walk up to a friend and go 'That's a stylin' looking vortex of apathy you've got there pal. I was swimming up a river of deceit myself.'

Embrace the unpredictable and unexpected. It is the path to the infinitely creative in you.

Heartbreak is how we mature... There is almost no path a human being can follow that does not lead to heartbreak.

A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.

In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found.

Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self.

Success in dealing with people depends on sympathetic grasp of the other person's viewpoint.

When one cultivates to the utmost the principles of his nature, and exercises them on the principle of reciprocity, he is not far from the path.

We must begin our practice by walking the narrow path of simplicity, the hinayana path, before we can walk upon the open highway of compassionate action, the mahayana path.

If you want to know for sure that you are on the right path, here's your clue: You're not put in a position where you feel like you have to negotiate your sense of integrity, which is an act of betrayal. You don't feel like you have to compromise who you are.

Only as a warrior can one survive the path of knowledge.

Frederick Douglas taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path.

If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.

We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.

But it will depend on young people like you being open to new ideas and new possibilities. And it will require young people like you never to stereotype or assume the worst about other people.

We need to create a society in which civility rules over cynicism and apathy.

A new time is coming both for my personal life, and the brand Ann Demeulemeester. I feel it's time to separate our paths.

The path of your life can change in an instant.

I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize them as a human being, no matter what they've done.

True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.

In moments of uncertainty, when you must chose between two paths, allowing yourself to be overcome by either the fear of failure or the dimly lit light of possibility, immerse yourself in the life you would be most proud to live.

Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations. Tools such as compassion, trust, empathy, love, and ethical discernment are already in our possession. The next sensible step would be to use them.

One of the wonderful things about free markets is that the path to greater wealth comes not from looting, plundering and enslaving one's fellow man, as it has throughout most of human history, but by serving and pleasing him.

Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.