Path Quotes

There is a path from me to you that I am constantly looking for.

When you're looking so hard to get on your path, you're putting up resistance that keeps you from finding it.

The path of Truth is as narrow as it is straight. Even so is that of ahimsa.

Life is as if you were traveling a ridge crest. You have the gulf of inefficiency on one side and the gulf of wickedness on the other, and it helps not to have avoided one gulf if you fall into the other.

Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.

The regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument.

You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved.

Anyone can follow a path, but only a leader can blaze one.

Light and shadow are opposite sides of the same coin. We can illuminate our paths or darken our way. It is a matter of choice.

We can't escape from the world anymore; we can't escape from the mind. We need to enter surrender while we are in the world. That seems to be the path that is effective in the world that we live in now.

The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it. The evil is only that men will not seek it.

It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.

Love is our steady guide on this road full of hardships.

If I have even just a little sense, I will walk on the main road and my only fear will be of straying from it. Keeping to the main road is easy, But people love to be sidetracked.

The longest way round is the shortest way home

Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.

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.

The way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find.

Step off the road. Build yourself a brand new path.

You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's path. You are not on your own path. If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential.

Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's. Each of us has to find his own way.

If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else's; the whole point is to find your own way.

Some do not walk at all; others walk in the highways; a few walk across lots.

There is no road to freedom, freedom is the road.

How great is the path proper to the Sage! Like overflowing water, it sends forth and nourishes all things, and rises up to the height of heaven. All-complete is its greatness! It embraces the three hundred rules of ceremony, and the three thousand rules of demeanor. It waits for the proper man, and then it is trodden. Hence it is said, 'Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.'

Whatever purifies you is the right path, I will not try to define it.

Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path.

There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path.

Let us carve gems out of our stony hearts and let them light our path to love.

Do not follow where the path may lead.

One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness.

...never try to follow another's path for that is his way, not yours. When that path is found, you have nothing to do but fold your arms and the tide will carry you to freedom.

The Way lies at hand yet it is sought afar off; the thing lies in the easy yet it is sought in the difficult.

"This - is now my way - where is yours"? Thus did I answer those who asked me "the way". For the way - it does not exist!

When you have more respect for yourself and put yourself in a position where you feel your sense of value or worth, that's how you know you're on the right path.

Art is the path of the creator to his work.

For something that is static, fixed, dead, there can be a way or a definite path; but not for anything that is moving and living.

He who rides and keeps the beaten track studies the fences chiefly.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

If you are going down a road and don't like what's in front of you, and look behind you and don't like what you see, get off the road. Create a new path!

As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.

Who expects to be able to go out of a house except by the door? How is it then that no one follows this Way of ours?

Wherever a man separates from the multitude, and goes his own way in this mood, there indeed is a fork in the road, though ordinary travelers may see only a gap in the paling. His solitary path across lots will turn out the higher way of the two.

The path of duty lies in what is near, and men seek for it in what is remote; the work of duty lies in what is easy, and men seek for it in what is difficult.

If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.

To find your own way is to follow your bliss.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

There is no path to peace; peace is the path.

The footpath down to the well is healed.

If you see your path laid out in front of you - Step one, Step two, Step three - you only know one thing . . . it is not your path. Your path is created in the moment of action. If you can see it laid out in front of you, you can be sure it is someone else's path. That is why you see it so clearly.

To be successful, you can't just run on the fast track; run on your track.

The way is One and only One. The way is close at hand, but men seek it afar.

I'm going to take the high road because the low road is so crowded.

If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential.

The middle path is the way to wisdom

What a Joy, to travel the way of the heart

There is no road towards peace; peace is the road

Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.

The road goes ever on and on

If you can see your path clearly in front of you, it's probably someone else's.