True mastery can be gained by letting things go their own way.
—Laozi
So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong, and strike at what is weak.
—Sun Tzu
I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.
—Franz Kafka
Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
—Franz Kafka
Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows how to read, has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
—Aldous Huxley
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking
—Marcus Aurelius
In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.
—Franz Kafka
In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.
—Franz Kafka
Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient’s ego freedom to decide one way or another.
—Sigmund Freud
I have never failed, I’ve only shown the way I did it before doesn’t work.
—Thomas Edison
“So far also we know that one way by which the law is kept written upon a Christian’s heart is this,— a sense of God’s presence.”
“Even though you cannot be as holy as you want to be, yet if the ways of holiness are your pleasure, if they are the very element in which you live as much as the fish lives in the sea, then you are the subject of a very wonderful change of heart.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
—Oscar Wilde
The sunflower is mine, in a way.
—Vincent Van Gogh
I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street.
—Stephen Hawking
We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
—Franz Kafka
There is no way to describe it; all we can describe is their appearance.
—Laozi
Don’t force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.
—Plato
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
—Ernest Hemingway
You shouldn’t surrender to whatever suffering comes your way. You have to say to yourself, ‘You, suffering, want me to surrender, to say to myself that I’m unhappy. No. Pressure me all you want. I will endure it all, and in suffering itself I will find consolation.’
—Leo Tolstoy
Once perishing in blood I lay,
Creatures no help could give,
But Jesus passed me in the way,
He saw, and bid me live.
—John Newton
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way. – C.S. Lewis
The true science of martial arts means practicing them in such a way that they will be useful at any time, and to teach them in such a way that they will be useful in all things
—Miyamoto Musashi
We are not freed from obedience, as a way of walking with God, but we are, as a way of working to come to him
—John Owen
If you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because he himself is the way.
—Thomas Aquinas
She lets them go their own way, and resides at the center of the circle.
—Laozi
I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.
—Albert Einstein
The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
—George Orwell