Finding Your Path Quotes

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  When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, God, Disappointment

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “Brida: A Novel”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

  Frank A. Clark

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Pain, Regret

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Nov 04, 2014

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• A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Fate, Journey, Destiny

  "The Fables of La Fontaine: Book VIII". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1678 - 1679.

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• Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive

  Howard Thurman

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Happy Birthday to You!". Book by Dr. Seuss, 1959.

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  Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

  Steve Jobs

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Following Your Own Path, Steps, Bliss

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• Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wisdom, Travel, Character

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  Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

  Anais Nin

  Life, Change, Failure

  "The Mirror and the Garden : Realism and Reality in the Writings of Anais Nin" by Evelyn J. Hinz, (p. 40), 1971.

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• Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.

  Paulo Coelho

  Disappointment, Despair, Tools

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jun 03, 2014

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• Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself.

  Erich Fromm

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Men

  Man for Himself (1947) ch. 4

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• People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

  Thomas Szasz

  Life, Wisdom, Creating

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (2004). “Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary”, p.139, Transaction Publishers

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• I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Sassy, Discovery

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.59, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through.

  Anais Nin

  Passion, Different Experiences, Becoming

  "The Mirror and the Garden : Realism and Reality in the Writings of Anais Nin" byEvelyn J. Hinz, (p. 40), 1971.

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• Now the choices you make are not about finding your path. Rather, they are choices to open the path you have found.

  Ilchi Lee

  Choices, Path, Found

  Ilchi Lee (2005). “Human Technology: A Toolkit for Authentic Living”, p.122, Healing Society

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• There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself.

  Howard Thurman

  Waiting, Sound, Genuine

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• Today you are you! That is truer than true!

  Dr. Seuss

  Happy Birthday, Funny Birthday, Monday

  "Happy Birthday to You!". Book by Dr. Seuss, 1959.

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• THERE are joys which long to be ours.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Long, Joy, Fly Away

  "Life thoughts gathered from the extemporaneous discourses of Henry Ward Beecher by one of his congregation". Book by Henry Ward Beecher and Edna Dean Proctor, quod.lib.umich.edu. 1858.

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• Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast.

  Douglas Adams

  People, Bypass, Transportation

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.27, Del Rey

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• Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.

  Hugh Hefner

  Life, Dream, Too Short

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• Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

  Alexis Carrel

  Motivational Sports, Men, Work Out

  Alexis Carrel (1939). “Man the Unknown”

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• Every choice before you represents the universe inviting you to remember who you are and what you want.

  Alan Cohen

  Choices, Remember Who You Are, Want

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