Finding Your Path Quotes - Page 2

• You will never come up against a greater adversary than your own potential, my young friend.

  Michael Piller

  Young Friends, Path, Come Up

  "Fictional character: Dr. Stubbs". "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (TV Series, Season 3, Episode 1: Evolution), 1987-1994.

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• Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way.

  Robert Breault

  Way, Path, Thousand

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• My own experience is that everybody is born with a certain talent, and unless he lives that talent to its fullest, something in him will remain missing. He will go on feeling that somehow something is not there that should be.

  Rajneesh

  Missing, Feelings, Goes On

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• Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.

  Robert Breault

  Discovery, Mind, Discovering Self

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• I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience - and laughter.

  Susan M. Watkins

  Travel, Laughter, Journey

  Susan M. Watkins (1984). “Conversations with Seth: The Story of Jane Roberts' ESP Class”, Prentice Hall Direct

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• Man is almost mad-mad because he is seeking something which he has already got; mad because he's not aware of who he is; mad because he hopes, desires and then ultimately, feels frustrated. Frustration is bound to be there because you cannot find yourself by seeking; you are already there. The seeking has to stop, the search has to drop.

  Rajneesh

  Frustration, Men, Mad

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• Find what makes your heart sing and create your own music.

  Mac Anderson

  Peace, Passion, Heart

  Linda Ellis, Mac Anderson (2012). “The Dash: Making a Difference with Your Life from Beginning to End”, p.30, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• For most men, life is a search for the proper Manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Life, Men, Finding Yourself

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• Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living.

  Tom O'Connor

  Mean, Might, Reason

  Tom O'Connor, Ahmed González-Núñez (1987). “Living With AIDS: Reaching Out”, Corwin Pub

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• That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Knowledge, Understanding, Way

  Twitter post from Apr 19, 2016

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• Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.

  Eric Hoffer

  Being Yourself, Being Single, Men

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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  Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

  Erich Fromm

  Life, Birthday, Character

  Man for Himself (1947) ch. 4

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• You cannot fully understand your own life without knowing and thinking beyond your life, your own neighborhood, and even your own nation.

  Johnnetta B. Cole

  Thinking, Knowing, Path

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• No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Creativity, Questions And Answers, Problem Solving

  "Questions That Work: How to Ask Questions That Will Help You Succeed in Any Business Situation". Book by Andrew Finlayson, p. 239, 2001.

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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. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there and what's so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be.

  Douglas Adams

  People, Work Out, Wish

  Douglas Adams (2005). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story”, Gramercy

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• Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Time, Library, Principles

  "'Gedanken, Satiren, Fragmente' ('Thoughts, Satires, Fragments')". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1907.

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• There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Long, Joy, Bird

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life thoughts gathered from the extemporaneous discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by E.D. Procter”, p.64

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• And if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain, you look for it in vain.

  Antonio Porchia

  Looks, Path, Vain

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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