And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.
The clear and safe path leads evermore into stagnation
One path leads back to this world, to rebirth; one path leads beyond. Your soul stands at a crossword, trying to make a decision, flipping a coin, a nice image for the soul, I think.
A reader's tastes are peculiar. Choosing books to read is like making your way down a remote and winding path. Your stops on that path are always idiosyncratic. One book leads to another and another the way one thought leads to another and another. My type of reader is the sort who burrows through the stacks in the bookstore or the library (or the Web site — stacks are stacks), yielding to impulse and instinct.
There is either a crisis or a return to the norm of stagnation. One view is the norm is stagnation and occasionally you get out of it. The other is that the norm is growth and occasionally you can get into stagnation. You can debate that but it's a period of close to global stagnation.
Inspiration without perspiration leads to frustration and stagnation.
Excluding citizens' voices from politics leads down a very bad path.
In the Upanishads they talk about the path of the sun and the path of the moon. The path of the moon is rebirth. The path of the sun leads to self-knowledge, from which there is no return.
To me, intolerance leads down a dreadful path that the world sometimes seems to be going to.
We can choose a path that leads us into trouble. It all comes down to our decisions at the end of the day.
Down to earth advice about the path that leads away from the kingdom of the hollow men.
The first path a human being ever travels is the path that leads out of the maternal womb. Every human being's first labyrinth is that of a woman.
The path of repentance, though hard at times, lifts one ever upward and leads to a perfect forgiveness.
As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.
Starving the future to feed the present is a mistake - it leads to obsolescence and stagnation. Sometimes it is hard to make this understood.
One path alone leads to a life of peace. The path of virtue.