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Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?
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questioning
path
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Garth Nix |
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End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.
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life
end
path
journey
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think yours is the only path.
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path
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Paulo Coelho |
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A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape.
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path
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Rebecca Solnit |
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They thought that it would be a disgrace to go forth as a group. Each entered the forest at a point that he himself had chosen, where it was darkest and there was no path. If there is a path it is someone else's path and you are not on the adventure.
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life
path
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Joseph Campbell |
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It's all well and good to look back after the fact and see what we should have done, but we rarely know what path is best when we take that first step.
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done
path
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Christine Feehan |
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I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will point to your final destination.
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past
life
symbols
looking-back
path
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Jodi Picoult |
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"You haven't loved yet," he said. "You've only been trying to love; beginning to love. Trust alone is not love, illusion is not love, desire alone is not love. All these were paths leading you out of yourself, it is true, and so you thought they led to another, but you never reached the other. You were only on the way."
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path
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Anaïs Nin |
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If you don't know where you want to go, then it doesn't matter which path you take.
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cheshire-cat
direction
cat
path
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Lewis Carroll |
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In the space between yes and no, there is a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; it's the legroom for the lies you will tell yourself in the future.
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future
past
leave-behind
yes
path
no
decisions
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Jodi Picoult |
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"Hobbits always so polite, yes! O nice hobbits! Smeagol brings them up secret ways that nobody else could find. Tired he is, thirsty he is, yes thirsty; and he guides them and he searches for paths, and they saw sneak, sneak. Very nice friends, O yes my precious, very nice." Sam felt a little remorseful, but not yet trustful. "Sorry," he said. "I'm sorry, but you startled me out of my sleep. And I shouldn't have been sleeping, and that made me sharp. But Mr. Frodo, he's that tired, I asked him to have a wink; and well, that's how it is. Sorry. But where HAVE you been to?" "Sneaking," said Gollum, and the green glint did not leave his eyes. ... "Hullo, Smeagol!" Frodo said. "Found any food? Have you had any rest?" "No food, no rest, nothing for Smeagol," said Gollum. "He's a sneak." "Don't take names to yourself, Smeagol," Frodo said. "It's unwise, whether they are true or false." "Smeagol has to take what's given to him," answered Gollum. "He was given that name by kind Master Samwise, the hobbit that knows so much."
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sleep
sneak
sméagol
the-two-towers
hobbit
frodo-baggins
samwise-gamgee
rest
path
gollum
lord-of-the-rings
name
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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His way isn't the same as mine, nor mine as his. But we're both in search of our destinies, and I respect him for that.
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respecting-others
path
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Paulo Coelho |
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Quing-Jao: I am a slave to the gods, and I rejoice in it. Jane: A slave who rejoices is a slave indeed.
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slavery
path
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Orson Scott Card |
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The man journeyed far, and he heard and saw many strange things on his travels. He learned that - that the friend and the enemy are but two faces of the same self. That the path one believes chosen long since, constant and unchangeable, straight and wide, can alter in an instant. Can branch, and twist and lead the traveler to places far beyond his wildest imaginings. That there are mysteries beyond the mind of mortal man, and that to deny their existence is to spend a life of half-consciousness.
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inspirational
path
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Juliet Marillier |
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God will help you make the choices that guide you into His path for each stage and age of your life.
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woman
women
faith
god
heart
life
love
guide
christian
path
stage
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Elizabeth George |
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"That part of your life is over. Set it aside as something you have finished. Complete or no, it is done with you. No being gets to decide what his life is "supposed to be"...'Be a man. Discover where you are now, and go on from there, making the best of things. Accept your life, and you might survive it. If you hold back from it, insisting this is not your life, not where you are meant to be, life will pass you by. You may not die from such foolishness, but you might as well be dead for all the good your life will do you or anyone else."
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present
fate
good
future
honesty
past
destiny
life
truth
aside
complete
forgo
meant
not
part
section
set
survive
to
decide
done
finish
discover
over
end
path
be
forget
dead
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Robin Hobb |
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A life path may have strange twists and turnings, and we do not always end up where we intend to go....
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fate
life
turns
path
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Marion Zimmer Bradley |
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Obedience is a foundational stepping-stone on the path of God's will.
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god
stone
path
will
obedience
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Elizabeth George |
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What is a secret? It is much more than knowledge shared with only a few, or perhaps only one another. It is power. It is a bond. It is a sign of deep trust, or the darkest threat possible. There is power in the keeping of a secret, and power in the revelation of a secret. Sometimes it takes a very wise man to discern which is the path to greater power. All men desirous of power should become collectors of secrets. There is no secret too small to be valuable. All men value their own secrets far above those of others. A scullery maid may be willing to betray a prince before allowing the name of her secret lover to be told.
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secret
trust
betray
cultivate
decide
employ
purchase
seek-out
collect
discern
reveal
use
utilize
path
hide
threat
knowledge
learn
power
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Robin Hobb |
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Onzi, shcho biaga ot uchastta si, mozhe niakoi den da otkrie, che samo e izbral po-priaka p'teka.
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life
inspirational
path
journey
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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That (labyrinth)...became a world whose rules I lived by, and I understood the moral of mazes: sometimes you have to turn your back on your goal to get there, sometimes you're farthest away when you're closest, sometimes the only way is the long one. After that careful walking and looking down, the stillness was deeply moving...It was breathtaking to realize that in the labyrinth, metaphors and meanings could be conveyed spatially. That when you seem farthest from your destination is when you suddenly arrive is a very pat truth in words, but a profound one to find with your feet.
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words
maze
labyrinth
goal
path
walking
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Rebecca Solnit |
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"Failure to put the relationship on a slower timetable may result in an act that was never intended in the first place. Another important principle is to avoid the circumstances where compromise is likely. A girl who wants to preserve her virginity should not find herself in a house or dorm room alone with someone to whom she is attracted. Nor should she single-date with someone she has reason not to trust. A guy who wants to be moral should stay away from the girl he knows would go to bed with him. Remember the words of Solomon to his son, "Keep to a path far from her, do not go near the door of her house" (Proverbs 5:8). I know this advice sounds very narrow in a day when virginity is mocked and chastity is considered old-fashioned. But I don't apologize for it. The Scriptures are eternal, and God's standards of right and wrong do not change with the whims of culture. He will honor and help those who are trying to follow His commandments. In fact, the apostle Paul said, "He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear" (1Corinthians 10:13). Hold that promise and continue to use your head. You'll be glad you did."
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words
wrong
trying
relationship
reason
trust
change
who
act
apostle
are
attracted
away
bear
beyond
can
chastity
commandments
considered
continue
did
door
do
eternal
glad
go
god-s
intended
is
knows
let
likely
mocked
narrow
near
proberbs
remeber
scriptures
single-date
slower
sounds
stay
tempted
those
very
what-you
whims
whom
would
you-ll
your
guy
and
day
you
with
old-fashioned
principle
keep
may
he
her
compromise
bed
first
never
avoid
advice
should
circumstances
place
not
to
preserve
important
use
hold
result
head
help
alone
follow
virginity
house
she
culture
wants
solomon
path
girl
paul
moral
son
be
someone
will
promise
honor
right
failure
him
standards
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James C. Dobson |
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The goal had been important only for the sake of finding the path to it.
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path
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Sten Nadolny |
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One walks along a street and strays unknowingly from one's path; one then looks up and suddenly for those familiar landmarks of orientation, and, seeing none, one feels lost. Panic drapes the look of the world in a strangeness, and the more one stares blankly at the world, the stranger it looks, the more hideously frightening it seems. There is then born in one a wild, hot wish to project out upon the alien world the world that one is seeking. This wish is a hunger for power, to be in command of one's self.
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path
panic
power
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Richard Wright |
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Since the day I'd left Yoroido, I'd done nothing but worry that every turn of life's wheel would bring yet another obstacle into my path; and of course, it was the worrying and the struggle that had always made life so vividly real to me.
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struggle
obstacle
path
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Arthur Golden |
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First find a path, and a little light to see by. Then push up your sleeves and start helping.
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sleeve
path
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Anne Lamott |
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Why am I made the way I am? Why do I care about all the wrong things, and nothing at all for the right ones? Or, to tip it another way: how can I see clearly that everything I love or care about is illusion, and yet - for me, anyway - all that's worth living for lies in that charm A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don't get to choose our own hearts. We can't make ourselves want what's good for us or what's good for other people. We don't get to choose the people we are.
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understanding
people
sadness
life
love
lonliness
self
path
questions
reality-of-life
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Donna Tartt |
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There is no path to the future, Fitz. The path is now. Now is all there is, or ever will be. You can change perhaps the next breaths in your life. But after that, random chance seizes you in its jaws again. A tree falls on you, a spider bites your ankle, and all your grand plans for winning a battle are for naught. Now is what we have, Fitz, and now is where we act to stay alive.
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future
path
chance
focus
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Robin Hobb |
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You learn to ride on the path and keep your eyes open so you can see what is there, not what you wish were there.... And then after all you might discover that what is there is what you wished for all along.
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path
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