There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
- the character Morpheus in the movie The Matrix
Travelers, there is no path.
Paths are made by walking.
- Antonio Machado
Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.
- Steven Wright
If you don't like the road you're walking,
start paving another one.
- Dolly Parton
Remember: Always walk in the light.
And if you feel like you're not walking in it,
go find it.
Love the light.
- Roberta Flack
Further reading:
Pragmatism
Accepting the Fear of Change
Working Toward a Better World
Be Boldly Decisive
To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Bessie A. Stanley (commonly attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson)
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pike
Believe in yourself,
in your vision for your future,
and in your ability to take a small step
each day toward achieving your vision.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading:
Stand Together
Pay It Forward
Turn Crisis into Progress
Plant Trees For Your Grandchildren
March On
There is a great difference between knowing and understanding:
you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
- Charles Kettering
To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.
- Jose Ortega Y Gasset
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb
The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
- Mark Twain
Not until we are lost
do we begin to understand ourselves.
- Henry David Thoreau
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
- Robertson Davies
Further reading:
Listen, Really Listen to Understand
Open Minds
Understand More, Fear Less
Knowledge is Soon Changed
Seek the Truth
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
- Saint Francis de Sales
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
Being angry is as close as a human being
can come to experiencing hell on earth.
Pause. Breathe deeply. Step back and look at the issue from a new perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading:
Stop Anger Before It Stops You
De-Stress Your Life
Overcoming Anger
Never Speak while Angry
Anger is a Killing Thing
