#path

As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#confusion #could #freedom #gets #kind

With this first novel, I am just above the foothills, but I see the path to the top, and it is my desire to write compelling stories about everything that I find of interest. ↗

— Guy Johnson

#above #am #compelling #desire #everything

Only those few who are able to surpass their fear of death completely can fully experience the highest forms of life; not the mundane life of the mortal, but the godly life of the resurrected. ↗

— Zeena Schreck

#buddhism #death #left-hand-path #magic #parenting

(In part, quoting Robert Keegan from Harvard):'When we take the risk of really witnessing another human being, when we validate their human experience, we risk becoming recruited to their welfare.' I allow my empathy to be engaged, and once it is - because my feelings help teach me what my values are - I'm on the path for which there is no return. I am inexorably an advocate when I allow my empathy to be engaged. ↗

— Ashley Judd

#inspirational #experience

I am really rather like a beautiful Jersey cow, I have the same pathetic droop to the corners of my eyes. ↗

— Deborah Kerr

#beautiful #corners #cow #droop #eyes

When the soul looks out of its body, it should see only beauty in its path. These are the sights we must hold in mind, in order to move to a higher place. ↗

— Yusef Lateef

#body #higher #hold #looks #mind

One of the greatest source of danger in life is to find the right path and stand on it. If you find the right way, run on it, don't stand on it. Something may be coming from behind; it will surely crush you when you are static. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#crush #danger #extra #extra-mile #food-for-thought

We are no more content to plod along the beaten paths - and so marriage must go the way of God. ↗

— Amy Levy

#beaten #content #go #god #marriage

If the Founding Fathers and other patriots who fought during the Revolutionary War could see the United States today, I believe they would be proud of the path that the thirteen colonies, now fifty strong states, have taken since then. ↗

— John Linder

#colonies #could #during #fathers #fifty

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#broken #friendships #must #path #social