Pathways Quotes - Page 9

• Pretentiousness repels but authenticity attracts, and vulnerability is the pathway to intimacy.

  Rick Warren

  Authenticity, Intimacy, Pretentiousness

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• Forever on Thanksgiving Day the heart will find the pathway home.

  Wilbur D. Nesbit

  Thanksgiving, Home, Heart

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• Challenge is the pathway to engagement and progress in our lives. But not all challenges are created equal. Some challenges make us feel alive, engaged, connected, and fulfilled. Others simply overwhelm us. Knowing the difference as you set bigger and bolder challenges for yourself is critical to your sanity, success, and satisfaction.

  Brendon Burchard

  Differences, Knowing, Challenges

  Brendon Burchard (2012). “The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Heaven, Consciousness, Sin

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• It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it.

  Gustav Mahler

  Steps, Conquer, Summit

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• People truly reaching across boundaries - be they religious or race, political or geographic. A state that is sincerely civil and respectful of each individual's pathway toward life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness will be our goal.

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.

  Religious, Pursuit Of Happiness, Race

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• Hetero - normative behavior and herd mentality is dangerous. It's okay to be different. It's okay to stand out for whatever reason. Some people are just born that way and instead of trying to tear them down, learn something new. Be curious and open because maybe that's a pathway out for you, too.

  Rose McGowan

  People, Tears, Trying

  "Exclusive Interview: Rose McGowan: The Agitator". Interview with Laura Dawn, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• When you repeat a new pattern often, you literally change the neural pathways in your brain. This shift helps true change settle in.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Brain, Patterns, Helping

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• My love runs by like a day in June, And he makes no friends of sorrows. He'll tread his galloping rigadoon In the pathway of the morrows. He'll live his days where the sunbeams start, Nor could storm or wind uproot him. My own dear love, he is all my heart, -- And I wish somebody'd shoot him.

  Dorothy Parker

  Running, Heart, June

  Dorothy Parker (1936). “Not So Deep as a Well”, Macmillan Company of Canada

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• You can lead your brain and inspire it. You can actively shape new neural pathways.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspire, Brain, Shapes

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• A fixed habit is supported by old, well-worn pathways in the brain. When you make conscious choices to change a habit, you create new pathways. At the same time, you strengthen the decision-making function of the cerebral cortex while diminishing the grip of the lower, instinctual brain. So without judging your habit, whether it feels like a good one or a bad one, take time to break the routine, automatic response that habit imposes.

  Deepak Chopra

  Judging, Decision, Choices

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• At a minimum, in explaining evolutionary pathways through time, the constraints imposed by history rise to equal prominence with the immediate advantages of adaptation.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Adaptation, Advantage, Explaining

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• Imagination is the road less taken, but it is the pathway of prayer.

  Mark Batterson

  Prayer, Taken, Imagination

  Mark Batterson (2016). “The Circle Maker: Praying Circles Around Your Biggest Dreams and Greatest Fears”, p.25, Zondervan

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• You have chosen the pathway to your present destination. The responsibility for your situation is yours.

  Andy Andrews

  Responsibility, Destination, Situation

  Andy Andrews (2005). “The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success”, p.26, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• You can look at the state of California, which is on a pathway to destruction because they expanded government too much, thinking that there would always be someone to pay for it.

  Greg Abbott

  Thinking, Government, California

  "Greg Abbott's War". Interview with Jake Silverstein, www.texasmonthly.com. September 2012.

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• Give of thy love, nor wait to know the worth
  Of what thou lovest; and ask no returning.
  And wheresoe'er thy pathway leads on earth,
  There thou shalt find the lamp of love-light burning.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Life, Light, Giving

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.1120, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Of the four major pathways to self-realization, jnana yoga, from the point of view of the beginner, is the most difficult.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Self, Views

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• The pathways of crime are clearly marked. There's a doublecross on every corner.

  Chester Gould

  Crime, Corners

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• There's so many different ways humans have used music to express the spiritual part of our nature and to connect us with the divine. So for me the pathway is through music.

  Joan Osborne

  Spiritual, Different, Divine

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• I strongly believe that the more positive my vibration is, the clearer my message will be. I keep my negative thoughts from infiltrating my pathway and my dreams. Other people's thoughts are none of my business.

  Erykah Badu

  Dream, Believe, People

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• The pathway to educational excellence lies within each school.

  Terrence E. Deal

  Educational, Lying, School

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• It's nice to be in a creative world that's kind of isolated, but you can get led astray down some pathway while you're recording that you might not like later. And there's a lot of time to get in your own head and stay there.

  Andrew Dost

  Nice, Creative, Might

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• The pathway to enlightenment is joyful. It may sound harsh. I suggest just the opposite. It is rather easy compared to the possibilities of staying in pain and illusion.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Opposites, Enlightenment

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• Living in an entirely different physical as well as biotic environment, such a population would have unique opportunities to enter new niches and to select novel adaptive pathways.

  Ernst Mayr

  Unique, Opportunity, Population

  Ernst Mayr (1988). “Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist”, Harvard University Press

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• You remember, you are drawn back to the pathway to enlightenment, to meditation, and when you begin to meditate your past life knowledge returns to you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Past, Remember You

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