Way Quotes

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

I know very few Americans, though I like the way they think. They think big.

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.

I will go out of my way to avoid the shopping crowds and the extreme consumerism - I hate all that.

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.

The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?

You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

The whole 'American Idol' way of looking at things is the antithesis of what I grew up with. There are a whole lot of kids wanting to be famous now, whereas if I'd even mentioned that word to one of my teachers, I would have got into a whole load of trouble.

If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin', but I felt like a fighter comin' up, man. I felt like, you know, I'm being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

Once you're halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there.

There were times that I needed to go to battle, but how I went to battle wasn't always the best way in.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

Going online and asking questions is the best way to learn.

Then, when I'm in these relationships with people who are also creative, or creative in their own way, what happens is the attraction is initially there and it's all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

You can't be afraid to fail. It's the only way you succeed - you're not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.

Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love.

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.