Way Quotes - Page 209

Paraphrased: The way of al-Junayd includes among other things abstaining constantly from resisting God Most High in whatever happens to one, whether good or bad. . . .

I am very orthodox in thinking that Jesus acted in his life the way God would have acted if God had assumed human form.

It was a maddening image and the only way to whip it was to hang on until dusk and banish the ghosts with rum.

The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in writing this being unable, which becomes for the present -henceforth?- the subject to which you are condemned.

I can tell a good cowboy by the way he approaches a cow.

There are no dead ends. There is always a way out. What you learn in one failure you utilize in your next success.

Since National Socialism came to power, I have striven to make its consequences milder for its victims and to prepare the way for a change. In that, my conscience drove me -- and in the end, that is a man's duty.

The piece of music is nothing without the act of interpretation. That is the only way it can live, and it's a totally abstract thing.

For a musician, music is the best way to unite with God.

The way to God is ever within the heart, within the loving heart.

Entertain, yes. That goes without saying. But a good writer does that automatically, it's built into the machine. Telling a thumpingly good, mesmerizing story is what one does without question. But beyond that, any writer worth his/her hire knows that all writing, one way or another, is subversive. It is guerrilla warfare against the status quo.

I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.

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

People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.

Well time has a way of throwing it all in your face. The past, she is haunted, the future is laced.

The only thing that made me, or any of us, special was that no one in the whole of history would ever see the universe exactly the same way any other of us saw it.

The love of individual freedom has stood in the way of the appreciation of social obligations.

I can't seem to stay out of my own way.

Whatever I do in life, I'm almost always aware that there's another way to do it.

Indeed, I have been listed under Jesus' banner only for a few years, but I have enjoyed more solid pleasure in one moment's communion with my God than I should or could have enjoyed in the ways of sin, though I had continued to have gone on in them for thousands of years.

The whole point to being here, really, is to figure a way to get out.

"All is passing". When one realises this, he sits loose to this world of sorrow : This is the way of purity.

I see the potential for a new world being born in front of me and all around me, and I feel the only way to bring that potential into being is to know myself.

Happiness isn't a state, it's a skill. It's the skill of knowing how to take what life throws your way and make the most of it.

If we can live and prosper without killing, why would we not do so? I do not see veganism as 'extreme' in any way. I see killing for no reason as extreme in every way.