Curved Path Quotes

#1. Compete with yourself, not with others.

Sophia Amoruso

#2. and you taste / of the memory of god abandoned.

Mikl Paul

#3. Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth ... will gravely jot down in diaries the events of every day, and keep a regular debtor and creditor account with heaven, which shall always show a floating balance in their own favour.

Charles Dickens

#4. A lie hides the truth. A story tries to find it.

Paula Fox

#5. Animals see the unobstructed world with their whole eyes. But our eyes, turned back upon themselves, encircle and seek to snare the world, setting traps for freedom.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#6. Life's not easy for anyone. Everyone has scars they're afraid to show and we all get slammed headfirst into a proverbial locker from time to time by someone bigger and badder.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#7. Bodies like the earth are not made to move on curved orbits by a force called gravity; instead, they follow the nearest thing to a straight path in a curved space, which is called a geodesic. A geodesic is the shortest (or longest) path between two nearby points.

Stephen Hawking

#8. I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in it.

Robert Sheckley