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Quotes About Guidance

And if I am asked today to advise a young writer who has not yet made up his mind what way to go, I would try to persuade him to devote himself first to the work of someone greater, interpreting or translating him.
~ Stefan Zweig
Destiny always knows how to find the way to a man whom it needs for its secret purposes, even if he desires to hide himself.
~ Stefan Zweig
I don't believe a person can be changed in a fundamental sense, but he or she can be guided into new paths, if those paths promise something more important than the original ones did.' 'If the original path is ultimately destructive...?' Selena began earnestly. 'The one doing the changing must see that for himself, Selena. You can only show him an alternative.
~ Stephanie James
Be your own lamps. Be your own shelters. Hang on to the truth as a lamp. Hang on to the truth as a refuge.
~ Gautama Buddha
My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.
~ Nikola Tesla
Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board.
~ Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
~ Saint Augustine
A rusted nail, placed near the faithful compass, Will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
~ Walter Scott
Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be ye a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp; hold fast as a refuge to the truth. Look not for refuge to anyone besides yourselves.
~ Gautama Buddha
The Bible - the wisest document ever known in human existence, which defies the ravages of time and change because it contains the truth that cannot be changed or invalidated.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Fixed principles of truth are the only safeguard for youth.
~ Ellen G. White
Does coaching work? Yes. Good coaches provide a truly important service. They tell you the truth when no one else will.
~ Jack Welch
Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated
~ Alan W. Watts
A labyrinthine man never seeks the truth, but only his Ariadne.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Do you hear what the music is saying? 'Come follow me and you will find the way. Your mistakes can also lead you to the truth. When you ask, the answer will be given.'
~ Rumi
Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.
~ Swami Vivekananda
What if desire wasn't an urge to be tamed, but a beacon of truth to be followed?
~ Danielle LaPorte
As far as I remember, even younger than eight, I have always been guided by reason. Not cold reason, but that which leads to the truth, to the real, and to sane Justice.
~ Albert Claude
The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it. The evil is only that men will not seek it.
~ Mencius
Obedience to truth known, is the king's highway to that which is still beyond us.
~ Francis Quarles
Feed on Christ, and then go and live your life, and it is Christ in you that lives your life, that helps the poor, that tells the truth, that fights the battle, and that wins the crown.
~ Phillips Brooks
Keep one thing in view forever- the truth; and if you do this, though it may seem to lead you away from the opinion of men, it will assuredly conduct you to the throne of God.
~ Horace Mann
The use of great men is to serve the little men, to take care of the human race, and act as practical interpreters of justice and truth.
~ Theodore Parker
The universe conspires to reveal the truth and to make your path easy if you have the courage to follow the signs.
~ Lisa Unger