Path Quotes - Page 9

Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads.

Powerful is our need to be known, really known by ourselves and others, even if only for a moment.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life

Evil thrives on apathy and cannot exist without it.

He was desperate to tell his news to some other cat; he almost felt that if a mouse crossed his path he would stop to inform it that it was about to be eaten by a ThunderClan deputy.

So-called austerity, the stoic injunction, is the path towards universal destruction. It is the old, the fatal, competitive path. Pull in your belt is a slogan closely related to gird up your loins, or the guns-butter metaphor.

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.

Man wishes to be confirmed in his being by man, and wishes to have a presence in the being of the other…. Secretly and bashfully he watches for a YES which allows him to be and which can come to him only from one human person to another.

Each of the world religions has its own particular genius, its own special insight into the nature and requirements of compassion, and has something unique to teach us.

Don't be what you're told to be. Follow your own path. Be your own person. Don't get held down by everyone else.

Music lives and breathes to tell us who we are and what we face. It is a path between ourselves and the infinite.

The most difficult of decisions are often not the ones in which we cannot determine the correct course; rather the ones in which we are certain of the path but fear the journey.

Insensitivity makes arrogance ugly; empathy is what makes humility beautiful.

I don't know what my path is yet. I'm just walking on it.

Jihad is our path and death in the name of Allah is our goal.

Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing.

I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble Education; laborious indeed at first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.

Listen, that you may live.

If you knew that hope and despair were paths to the same destination, which would you choose?

By whatever path you go, you will have to lose yourself in the one. Surrender is complete only when you reach the stage `Thou art all' and `Thy will be done'.

One person caring about another represents life's greatest value.

Every path hath a puddle.

Tears are the silent language of grief.