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“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.” James Joyce, Ulysses
“Through me the way is to the city dolent; Through me the way is to eternal dole; Through me the way among the people lost.” Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy
“The way up and the way down are one and the same.” Heraclitus, On Nature
“PHILOSOPHY, n. A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.” Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
“I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy; but, like every body else it must be in my own way.” Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
“There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.” Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom
“But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road—there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door . . . You step into the Road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
“I have crossed seas, left cities behind me, followed the course of rivers or plunged into forests, always making my way towards other cities. I have had women, I have fought with men; and never was I able to turn back, any more than a record can...” Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
“One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.” Jane Austen, Persuasion
“I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married” Virginia Woolf, Night and Day
“I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.” Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
“One of the most important questions a woman can ask herself: What do I really want—and what is my spirit telling me is the best way to proceed?”
“if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much as everybody else, only in a different way.” J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
“Can we actually “know” the universe? My God, it’s hard enough finding your way around in Chinatown.” Woody Allen, Getting Even
“I think that this task is appointed for you, Frodo; and that if you do not find a way, no one will.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
“But though the ways led away from the self, their end nevertheless always led back to the self.” Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
“We travel a spiral. The quickest way is sometimes the longest.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“I replied: There is nothing which for my part I like better, Cephalus, than conversing with aged men; for I regard them as travellers who have gone a journey which I too may have to go, and of whom I ought to enquire, whether the way is smooth...” Plato, The Republic
“I cannot well repeat how there I entered, So full was I of slumber at the moment In which I had abandoned the true way.” Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy
“After all this time, it still seems to me like straight and fast is the only way out — but I choose the labyrinth. The labyrinth blows, but I choose it.” John Green, Looking for Alaska
“There are no conditions to which a man cannot become used, especially if he sees that all around him are living in the same way.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“Let every one have his own way, and we shall be always at peace.” Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne
“In truth the way matters but little; the will to arrive suffices.” Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
“There seemed to be no end to this wood, and no beginning, and no difference in it, and, worst of all, no way out.” Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
“In the mountains the shortest way is from peak to peak, but for that route thou must have long legs. Proverbs should be peaks, and those spoken to should be big and tall.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“The only thing that matters, my goal, my reward, my beginning, my end is the work itself. My work done my way.” Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
“Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle.” George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
“If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.” Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
“All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end.” Blaise Pascal, Pensées
“When nothing is done, nothing is left undone. True mastery can be gained by letting things go their own way.” Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“Every life is many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves.” James Joyce, Ulysses

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