What you call your life is not yours at all--not yours to plan, manipulate, or control, at least not very often. . . . In fleeting moments of deep satisfaction and insight, I saw the absolute truth of life: the unbroken line of love that had led to m...
Bhikkhus, the teaching is merely a vehicle to describe the truth. Don’t mistake it for the truth itself. A finger pointing at the moon is not the moon. The finger is needed to know where to look for the moon, but if you mistake the finger for the m...
A man journeyed to a place Where the road caused him to ponder, Should he travel the wide, clear road? Or should he venture up the other? The wide road was more often traveled, It was level and easy and clear. The narrow one seemed barely a path, Wit...
No trees, sky or ground. No other buildings or fields. No winding path, no brambles, no outhouse or pond or flowers, no sunshine or children playing. Just blackness.
There was no better path to autonomy for an ambitious young businesswoman than to be married off to a respectable corpse.
Explore your untamed dreams and you just might find a unique place where a confluence of paths lead towards your destiny.
The sated day is never first The best day is a day of thirst Yes, there is goal and meaning in our path - but it is the way that is the labour's worth.
You can bail water 24/7, and no matter how good you are at not sinking, you still have a hole in your boat.
The path for those who go with the truth is not is not that smooth. Guns, crosses and hangmen in the gallows are waiting for them!
Tears sprang from her eyes and she bit her lip to stop herself from howling at the bright pain.
There's ways you can trust an enemy you can't always trust a friend. An enemy's never going to betray your trust.
They argued because they liked argument, liked the swift run of the unfettered mind along the paths of possibility, liked to question what was not questioned.
I think the world is often like that.” “Like what?” “Comic, but only at the right distance.
The end is not the reward; the path you take, the emotions that course through you as you grasp life - that is the reward.
I pray that the Holy Spirit puts His Words in my mouth, His movement in my heart and His direction in my path.
Destiny and fate are of one’s own making, and riches and happiness are rarely found at the end of an easily-traversed path.
Every small, unselfish action nudges the world into a better path. An accumulation of small acts can change the world.
...I see myself at crossroads in my life, mapless, lacking bits of knowledge - then, the Moon breaks through, lights up the path before me...
Without a torch, I stumbled along the paths. The night was dismal. A partial moon hovered bitter and white on the horizon. It was the perfect night for murder.
Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.
Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.
