Way Quotes - Page 541

A person likes to think of himself in a certain way, and when something happens that makes that no longer possible, you mourn the old self. The person you thought you were.

Having a sense of purpose in life is the best way to avoid dispair.

What better way to expand your imagination than to read!

Power is just so much part of the human being because power is survival. But I wonder if that is the best way to survive, by killing someone else.

I've always felt like I had a guardian angel in some of those ways.

The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they're all inconsistent with each other.

You need to invent things and you need to get them to people. You need to commercialize those inventions. Obviously, the best way we've come up with doing that is through companies.

Do you believe this is simply trickle-down Machiavellianism in much the same way that Communism trickled down as an aberration of its original intent?

I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.

Do not fear the aging of the body for it is the body's way of seeking the root.

When the worst student hears about the Way, he laughs out loud. If he did not laugh, it would be unworthy of being the Way.

If your virtue is especially radiant, it can be possible to open a pathway to the subtle realm and receive these celestial teachings directly from the immortals.

The Way is hidden and nameless. Still only the Way nourishes and completes.

Water does not force its way.

The way of heaven is to help and not harm.

The only way that we can truly have a purpose and an enriching life experience is to do all things in Christ and through the power of Christ. What happens when we're all about doing good works and we're doing that outside of the power of Christ is that we end up getting the glory and the whole point of this deal is that God gets the glory. That verse beautifully illustrates that point.

My actions and reactions, and the way I treated certain scenarios, were way out of line, so I deserved some punishment.

When the script for 'Once' came my way, I had the thought that maybe it will last only a season. But I was willing to take that risk.

Don't say I hate institutionalised religion - rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I'm saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many.

When this government [Chiang Kaishek's] finally fell there was no one ready to teach the Chinese the human way of life.

I just want to do everything. I don't want to sound soppy or too cliched, but that's the way it is.

There is this feeling that I have a destiny far away from the shallow and preposterous posing that is our life.

I now believe that the only way in which Americans can rise above their ordinariness, can mature sufficiently to rescue themselves and to help rescue their planet, is through enthusiastic intimacy with works of their own imagination.

Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be, to protect yourself.

I'm on probation, so I can't even pick my nose the right way.