Quotes About Paths We Take

#1. Our own freewill, to choose the paths we take, no greater deed could ever be done than for another's sake.

Dolly Parton

#2. Just like me. Just like so many others. Tragedies may change who we are, may alter the paths we take, sometimes drastically. But we can still continue on, continue living for tomorrow. Tomorrow is always worth fighting for." Mach Derune, A Time for Revenge, The End of Old Ways series

A.W.Chrystalis

#3. Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.

Jean De La Fontaine

#4. We are not mad. We are human.We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.

Leonard Cohen

#5. There are days when writing is within my power and a story unfolds along a course I've already chosen. And then there are days when the words breathe on their own and take me by the hand, leading me along unfathomed paths. Either way, the end result is this author's fairytale.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#6. Sometimes I think that truth is a place. In my mind, it is like a city: there can be a hundred roads, a thousand paths, that will all take you, eventually, to the same place. It does not matter where you come from. If you walk toward the truth, you will reach it, whatever path you take. Calum

Neil Gaiman

#7. In life we have decisions to make, paths to take and opportunities to take advantage of.

Zayn Malik

#8. The paths that we choose don't always take us where we want to go. Sometimes they take us where we need to go.

Felix J. Palma

#9. I want people to follow their dreams, yes ... but I'm not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers ... I want to show them that there's so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.

J. Cole

#10. Some are wandering into forbidden paths because they are seeking popularity with their peers, even to the extent of doing things they know are wrong. They cannot stand criticism or ridicule and will not take a firm stand against wrongdoing.

Nathan Eldon Tanner

#11. We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.

Alan Hirsch

#12. We do as we're told, because there is no other course we can take, but that does not always mean that the actions we carry through are the paths we would voluntarily walk.

Heather Lyons

#13. today my heart was ripped in two
one half for me, one half for you
take a half and keep it near
i have mine and will always be here
crossing paths before the end
once a lover, forever a friend

Connor Franta

#14. Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate
And though I oft have passed them by
A day will come at last when I
Shall take the hidden paths that run
West of the Moon, East of the Sun.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#15. Sometimes the most evolved souls take the most challenging paths

Brian Weiss

#16. There may come a time at last that I
Shall take the hidden paths that run
East of the moon west of the sun.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#17. Aside from the inescapable realities of birth and death, we're responsible for the paths our lives take. We each make our own choices.

Alissa Johnson

#18. It was strange the paths the human heart chose to take and the attachments it made along the way. The surest sign of the altruistic nature of the organ is its ability to ignore race, color, creed, and gender and just blindly love with all its might - one of the most irrefutable forces on earth. They

Craig Johnson

#19. Night thoughts have a different color than day thoughts, a different slant, more than anything else they know all the secret paths and chinks in the armor they can take advantage of to force their way into consciousness.

Christa Wolf

#20. Of all the paths you take in life,
make sure a few of them are dirt.

John Muir

#21. People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.

Dean Kamen

#22. In life one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day - or to celebrate each special day.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#23. Children, as I have said, use back ways and hidden paths, while adults take roads and official paths

Neil Gaiman

#24. Your destiny is the result of the choices that you make, which paths you take in life.

Steven Redhead

#25. The greatest victories are therefore never without the shadow of loss; every path you take, no matter how lofty or effulgent, aches not only with the memory of what you left behind, but with the ghosts of all the untaken paths, now never to be taken, running parallel.

Paul Murray

#26. The paths that ghosts follow are written on the land in old words. Ghosts don't take the interstate.

Neil Gaiman

#27. There may be troubled waters along the many paths my life shall take, but only I as a man, may keep my vessel afloat, and guide myself straight.

Robert M. Hensel

#28. Never take unknown path for a long walk, it may turn into affliction.

Debolina Bhawal

#29. Tomorrow we may come this way,
And take the hidden paths that run
Towards the Moon or to the Sun

J.R.R. Tolkien

#30. Perhaps in the pursuit of happiness, men and women take somewhat different paths. And, isn't it more than a little patronizing to suggest that most ... women are not free? They're not self-determining human beings?

Christina Hoff Sommers

#31. The secret to excitement is discovering new paths, and having the courage to take them.

Lawren Leo

#32. Frequently in life, you have to take irrelevant paths in order to reach the correct destination.

Aditi Dufare

#33. Just because you think the path that's right for you might be lonelier, longer or less destined for traditional success than paths taken by others, don't be afraid to take it. If you choose your means well you will end up in the right place.

Beau Biden

#34. One of life's mysteries is why two children growing up in the same home sometimes take radically different paths - one following Christ, the other rebellious and scornful. Yet it happens.

Billy Graham

#35. The only things I regret, and the only things I'll ever regret are things I didn't do. In the end, that's what we mourn. The paths we didn't take. The people we didn't touch.

Scott Spencer

#36. For me there is wonder in reading. Some stories take my mind down exciting, winding paths it has never been before.

R.J. Snow

#37. I know why you seek solitude. You suffer; I see it day by day. You sure you do not suffer needlessly? There are other ways, Frodo, other paths that we might take.
I know what you would say. And it would seem like wisdom but for the warning in my heart.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#38. I've learned to stay the course. There are no shortcuts. No detours. They take you further away from your goal.

Irene Fantopoulos

#39. It was as though I saw for the first time that
life could branch into different paths, take different directions.

Ally Condie

#40. There are two paths people can take. They can either play now and pay later, or pay now and play later. Regardless of the choice, one thing is certain. Life will demand a payment.

John C. Maxwell

#41. The road doesn't have to be infinite after all. Take the hidden paths.

Peter Thiel

#42. We desire peace. But peace is a goal, not a policy. Lasting peace is what we hope for at the end of our journey. It doesn't describe the steps we must take nor the paths we should follow to reach that goal.

Ronald Reagan

#43. As the different streams having their sources in different places all mingle their water in the sea, so, O Lord, the different paths which men take through different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to Thee.

Swami Vivekananda

#44. I've always been obsessed about how people choose - or are destined - for the paths they take.

Julie Salamon

#45. No matter what happens in the future, no matter where our paths take us, this moment will be ours.

Marie Lu

#46. Every human being has gone through a tragedy of sorts. And the idea is that you have two paths you can take, you can find that alchemy that turns lead into gold, find that magic where you can see the loss as an entry point for learning and grow from it and become wiser and stronger.

Jillian Michaels

#47. Two strong futures lie ahead, each as possible as the other. It's rare for fate to boil down to two such evenly matched eventualities. Normally the paths of the future are many. When two exist like this, chance decides which the world will take.

Darren Shan

#48. I know of the leafy paths that the witches take
Who come with their crowns of pearl and their spindles of wool,
And their secret smile, out of the depths of the lake ...

William Butler Yeats

#49. The path I choose through the maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing, but also a way of being
one of many ways
and knowing the paths I have followed and the ones left to take will help me understand what I am becoming.

Daniel Keyes

#50. If you look at the paths of other actors, most people have a curve where you hit it and there's a time where you make a lot of money and they let you make your movies, and then they take it away and it's gone.

Casey Affleck

#51. You had to take risks, follow some paths and abandon others.

Paulo Coelho

#52. Courage was something John Reckless only ever wished he had. Courage was not a given; it was acquired, earned. You had to take the difficult paths, and John had always picked the easy ones.

Cornelia Funke

#53. But you have to take all of those things, you have to take into consideration the paths, the roadways, how much cloud cover there is, how much foliage cover there is, whether there are streams, all of that comes into play.

Richard Serra

#54. When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.

Damien Rice

#55. There are many kinds of leaders. Too often we confuse a forceful personality with leadership. This is a mistake. Those with different talents and styles can reach the same mountaintop; they just take different paths to get there.

Henry H. Neff

#56. We can take whatever path in worship we choose, but not all paths will end at the feet of Jesus.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#57. We seldom break our leg so long as life continues a toilsome upward climb. The danger comes when we begin to take things easily and choose the convenient paths.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#58. We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everyhwere.

Tim McGraw

#59. Every road will take you somewhere! But the question is: To where? To a sunny place or to a place full with shadows? Those who are very sure of their paths often end up in the second place! Don't be so sure with your path, question it ten times, question it hundred times!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#60. I'm a Twitter addict. Jose Andres is a serial tweeter. It's funny to see which chefs have embraced it, and the different paths they take.

Anthony Bourdain

#61. There are two ways to look at how life works and how people find their paths. One way is you take your time and try different things out. The other is you settle in early. I was into cooking very early.

Michael Mina

#62. I'm fascinated by people's process. Everyone's process is a little bit different, and just to see the different paths that people take to get where they are is really interesting to me.

Chris Hardwick

#63. Sometimes dangerous paths are the only paths leading to the safest paths. In these cases, do not hesitate to take the dangerous roads!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#64. There were times in life when you had to take a risk that might end in failure. Because otherwise you would be haunted by what you hadn't done ... the paths you hadn't taken, the things you hadn't experienced.

Lisa Kleypas

#65. You have two choices, two paths to take as a comedian. You can tackle the difficult subjects and be harsh about it, be brash, be abrasive. But adding hatred to racism is not going to help everybody. So I like to have fun around it.

Trevor Noah

#66. Life is like Candyland, there are many paths to take, sometimes you run into Lord Licorice but the end will always be Candy Castle.

Jack Barakat

#67. I was told that this road would take me to the ocean of death, and turned back halfway. Since then crooked, round-about, godforsaken paths stretch out before me.

Arkady Strugatsky

#68. Okay. What do I have to do?"
"Unless you plan on creating a door and walking the Paths alone, you really ought to take my hand."
"I mean when we get there, you jerk.

Kiersten White

#69. Life is full of crossroads, Alex. Full of choices. There are many paths we can take. It's up to us to decide which ones lead in the right direction.

Lynette Noni

#70. Forever waits for no one, I know this now. There are no guarantees in life, no definitive paths we must take. The bottom line is that it's luck. Some you get given to you, some of it is random luck, and the rest you have to make for yourself.

Emma Hart