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Any
path is only a path, and there is no affront,
to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is
what your heart tells you. . . . Look
at every path
closely and deliberately. Try
it as many times as
you think necessary. Then ask
yourself, and yourself
alone, one question. . . . Does this path have a heart?
If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use.
-Carlos
Castaneda
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I will not follow where the path
may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail.
-Muriel Strode
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has the right and the responsibility to assess the
roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have traveled,
and if the future road looms ominous or unpromising, and the
roads back uninviting, then we need to gather our resolve and,
carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road
into another direction. -Maya Angelou |
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If
seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what
might not
the heart of the human become in its long journey toward the
stars? -Gilbert
Keith Chesterton
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Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be;
custom will soon render it easy and
agreeable. -Pythagoras |
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If
we are spiritual beings on a human path rather than
human beings who may be on a spiritual path, then life is
not only a journey but a pilgrimage or quest as well.
-Jean
Shinoda Bolen
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years I have learned that life is a voyage of discovery and
not a safe harbor. It is on the voyage that we learn how to steer
our own
lives and with them the life of the nation we love. We learn to
coexist
with our fears, to surmount the obstacles before us. We find ways to
defy danger, even as we reach deep within ourselves for solutions
to the challenges of the age. -Katherine D. Ortega |
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is for the left lane, swing on over there and feel
the wind flying through your hair, and the bugs splatting against
your dark glasses. But if the right lane beckons you, indulge
your penchant for counting wildflowers in the field or discarded
tennis shoes on the freeway. Most important, we must all remember,
left-laners or right-laners, we are to be tender with each other.
-Marilyn Meberg |
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good to have an end to journey towards;
but it is the journey that matters in the end.
-Ursula K. LeGuin |
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before us, one of which is easy and the other hard,
one of which requires
no exertion while the other calls for resolution
and endurance, happy are
those who choose the mountain path and scorn
the thought of resting in the
valley. These are the men and women
who are destined in the end to
conquer and succeed. -Anonymous |
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Time
is not measured by the years that you live
But by the deeds you do and the joy that you give--
And each day as it comes brings a chance to each one
To love to the fullest, leaving nothing undone
That would brighten the life or lighten the load
Of some weary traveler lost on Life's Road--
So what does it matter how long we may live
If as long as we live we unselfishly give.
Helen
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Find your true path. It's so easy
to become
someone we don't want
to be,
without even realizing it's
happening. We
are created by
the choices we make every day. And if we take action
in order
to please some authority figure,
we'll suddenly wake up
down the
road and say, "This isn't me.
I never wanted to be this
person." -Bernie Siegel |
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| A word grows to a thought, a thought to an
idea, an idea to an act. The change is slow, and the present is a sluggish
traveler loafing
in the path tomorrow wants to take. -Beryl Markham |
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life, your life, and steer it in the direction you would like,
toward the career you want and the fulfillment of your dreams, is
the journey--the only real journey. No matter how rich or successful
you think you are, unless you harness your dreams and continue to grow
and develop, a boring, sedentary life will set in. Similarly, those
who think
they are at the bottom of the barrel, who feel apathetic and numb or
think their lives have no chance--they, too, can turn it around and
change. Whether you feel you're unsuccessful, at the bottom of the barrel, or
somewhere in between, it's time to shake yourself into action
and onto the road of your dreams.
-Milton Katselas |
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Whatever course you have chosen for
yourself, it will not
be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense
of the glory of striving. . . if your sights are set far
above the merely secure and mediocre.
-David Sarnoff
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don't change the direction we're going,
we're likely to end up where we're headed.
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All paths are
the same: they lead nowhere. . . . They are paths going through the
bush,
or into the bush. In my own life I could say I have traversed
long, long paths
but I am not anywhere. My benefactor's question has
meaning now. Does this path
have a heart? If it does, the path
is good; if it doesn't it is of no use. Both paths
lead nowhere; but
one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey;
as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make
you
curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you.
-Carlos
Castaneda
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They who
are outside the door have already
a good part of their journey behind them.
-Dutch
Proverb
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The
grand difficulty is to feel the reality of both worlds, so as
to give each its due place in our thoughts and feelings, to keep
our mind's eye ever fixed on the Land of Promise, without looking
away from the road we are to travel towards it.
-Augustus
Hare
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Though it is but by footsteps ye do it,
And hardships may hinder and stay;
Walk with faith, and be sure you'll get through it;
For "Where there's a will there's a way."
Eliza Cook |
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Sometimes,
while traveling on life's journey, we get stopped by a bad attitude,
which can cripple us. It's like having a flat tire that needs
changing
before we can continue on the road. With our destination firmly in
our minds,
we must first pull over and admit that something in our lives needs to
change. Then we must jack the wheel off the ground and life that situation to God
in prayer. After that we must remove the flat tire and replace it
with
a new one, substituting the wrong attitude with a positive one.
-Barbara
Johnson
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The journey through
life has many valleys
that we can't just skip over, and also
many
mountains to climb that we can't
just jump over. It is also true that we
need
the space and the freedom to make our
own mistakes. Trial and error seem to be
the only way we can learn and grow. Life is first and foremost a process.
And this process is a zig-zag process at that.
-John Powell
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It
can be tempting to blame others for our loss of direction. We get lots of
information
about life but little education in life from parents,
teachers, and other authority figures,
who should know better from their
experience. Information is about facts. Education is
about wisdom and the
knowledge of how to love and survive. But no matter how much
advice you
get, you are the one who chooses which train to board. As you pass through
life,
pay attention to the signs and stations; if you don't like the
scenery, pull the emergency cord
and get off the train. There is no other
conductor in charge. There is no one who needs
to give you permission to
transfer. This is your life. Your journey. Your trip to conduct.
-Bernie Siegel |
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People take different roads
seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're
not on
your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
-H. Jackson Browne
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Right now
I know that I am standing on the threshold of a breakthrough--a spiritual journey that will take me further along in my growth than
I could ever possibly imagine. This is a journey on which I will be
filled
with a peace that far surpasses anything I have ever experienced,
and I begin it by knowing and living the truth of my divine potential.
I am on a journey of positive thinking, praying, and living. If ever
I find myself
falling into a rut of negative thinking, I can't break down--I break
through! I break through the barriers of those negative thoughts and that
less-than-positive attitude. I break through and discover that
I am a spiritual being on a divine journey.
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The tree which needs two arms to span its girth
sprang from the tiniest shoot. Yon tower, nine stories high, rose from
a little mound of earth.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with
a single step. -Lao-tse
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The joy
is in the journey.
Don't be in too great a hurry to arrive.
What are you going to do
when you get there?
The moment you arrive,
the game is up!
Leonard
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Live
your life each day as you would climb mountains. An occasional
glance
towards the summit puts the goal in mind. Many beautiful
scenes can be observed
from each new vantage point. Climb steadily,
slowly, enjoy each passing moment;
and the view from the summit will serve
as a fitting climax to the journey. -Harold
V. Melchert
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Find a path or make
one. -Seneca |
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Life isn't a
destination--it's a journey.
We all come upon unexpected curves and
turning points,
mountaintops and valleys. Everything that happens to
us
shapes who we are becoming. And in the adventure of each day,
we
discover the best in ourselves.
-from the back of a
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It has not been, and never will be, easy work!
But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than
the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the
same destination. -Marian Zimmer Bradley |
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Two roads diverged in a
yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
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