Quotes About Mazes and Labyrinths
Quotes about Mazes and Labyrinths
Maze quotes:
“Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.” - Buddha
“I have a theory that when you're lost on the path, go back to the beginning and try the maze again.” - Amanda Seales
“Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.” - Honore de Blazac
“You're this rat in the American maze, working your way towards the cheese, which is a job.” - Kevin Costner
“You can choose to live your life as a maze or a labyrinth - a maze with its confusions, wrong turns, dead ends and false hopes, or a labyrinth with its many turnings, but none of them wrong, a path with sure and certain knowledge of reaching and experiencing the center, home.”
-Rev Dr. Carole Ann Camp (Labyrinths from the Outside In)
“Life is no straight and easy corridor along which we travel free and unhampered, but a maze of passages, through which we must seek our way, lost and confused, now and again checked in a blind alley”
- A.J. Cronin
“Perhaps we should stop telling people that they are simply mice, chasing cheese, in someone else’s maze”
“What happens in a maze is beyond your control. What you can control is your reaction.”
“In the maze, there is only pursuit”
“Those who had designed the maze had done so for their own benefit and for their own purposes.
- Deepak Malhotra, I Moved Your Cheese
“I'm not dying in a f**king rat maze!”
- Quenten (character in the movie Cube)
“The maze is a symbol of life…happiness, sadness…and you reach your goal…there’s a dream there, and you reach that dream when you get to the middle of the maze…that’s how I was told, my grandparents told me that’s how the maze is.”
- Alfreda Antone, from Tohono O’odham tribe speaking abut The Man in the Maze
“Although most of us acknowledge the desirability of labyrinths, when it come down to it, we generally see our lives as mazes, not labyrinths”
:”In a maze we lose ourselves, in a labyrinth we find ourselves”
- Jill Kimberly Hartwell Geoffrion, Living The Labyrinth
“Mazes are for those who want to tune in to their innate sense of curiosity. Mediatate, learn, and reconnect with your sense of fun.”
Julie E Bounford, The Curious History of Mazes
"The maze is all around us, every choice we make, every turn we take, every path we follow."
- Christopher Paolini, Eragon
"Life is a maze. There are many paths to take, but only one leads to your destination." - Unknown
"The maze is a symbol of the journey of life. It is a series of challenges that we must overcome in order to reach our destination." - Unknown
"The maze is a metaphor for the human condition. We are all lost in a maze, trying to find our way out." - Unknown
"The maze is a challenge, but it is also a journey of self-discovery. As we walk through the maze, we learn more about ourselves and our strengths." - Unknown
"The maze is a reminder that we are not alone. Others have walked this path before us, and they can help us find our way." - Unknown
"The maze is a symbol of hope. It shows us that there is always a way out, even when things seem hopeless." - Unknown
"The maze is a place of discovery. As we explore the maze, we find new things about ourselves and the world around us." - Unknown
"The maze is a place of both danger and opportunity. We must be careful not to get lost, but we must also be open to new experiences." - Unknown
"The maze is a place of transformation. As we walk through the maze, we are changed by the experience." - Unknown
Labyrinth Quotes:
“He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.”
- Victor Hugo
"So, the Labyrinth is a piece of cake, is it? Well, let's see how you deal with this little slice..."
“You have thirteen hours in which to solve the labyrinth, before your baby brother becomes one of us... forever.”
“Tell me Sarah, what do you think of my labyrinth?”
-The Goblin King (David Bowie), from The Labyrinth
“With a labyrinth, you make a choice to go in - and once you've chosen, around and around you go. But you always find your way to the center.”
- Jeff Bridges
“The labyrinth is a vibrant flowerbed of creation and the perfect place to plant seeds for the future.”
- Lea Goode Harris, PH.D
“The labyrinth was designed by an intelligence we cannot fully understand. But this much I do know. The labyrinth is truly a tool for transformation”
-Lauren Artress, Walking a Sacred Path
“A labyrinth is not a maze. A maze is designed for you to lose your way; a labyrinth is designed for you to find your way”
-Lauren Artress, Foreword to Praying The Labyrinth
“Be open and follow, the labyrinth will take you places you don’t expect to go”
“They [Labyrinths] are symbols, spiritual tools, mathematical images, harmonic patterns, pathways of discovery, playgrounds of prayer.”
“ A BEAUTIFUL SPRITUAL TOOL has captured my attention and my heart. The labyrinth is its name.”
- Jill Kimberly Hartwell Geoffrion, Praying The Labyrinth
“The labyrinth may offer gifts that are not immediately obvious”
“Labyrinths,… provide a wonderful haven where questions can be welcomed, honored, and explored”
- Jill Kimberly Hartwell Geoffrion, Pondering The Labyrinth
“Thou mayst not wander in that labyrinth; There Minotaurs and ugly treasons lurk”
- William Shakespeare, from Henry IV Part One
“The labyrinth as a whole is a symbol of any things, and primarily it is a symbol of wholeness, oneness, your journey in life, and the interconnectedness of all of existence”
-Tony Christie, Labyrinth:Your Path to Self-Discovery
“The labyrinth is a material manifestation of a collective unconscious, of a message sent forth into the beyond.”
-Jacques Attali, The Labyrinth in Culture and Society
“All that is really required in walking the labyrinth is to show up, place one foot in front of the other, and breathe”
-Melissa Gayle West, Exploring the Labyrinth: A Guide for Healing and Spiritual Growth
“Labyrinths are entrances to new phases of life”
-Uwe Wolff, from Mazes & Labyrinths (by Hohmuth)
“Stepping onto a labyrinth isn't normally associated with moving from one phase of life to another, but I do believe every walk involves acknowledging the possibility that you will be changed in some way, even if this may not immediately be apparent”
“Walking a labyrinth is often described as being a ‘metaphor for life’, in that we don’t know who might meet along our path, nor what experience we might enjoy”
“The labyrinth is accepting and embracing of all”
- Clive Johnson (from the book Labyrinth A - Omega)
“Recovering past life experiences is analogous to walking a labyrinth. You begin at an entry point, you walk in a weave back and forth until you arrive near the center, then back and forth outward again, then return in weaving toward the center again and backwards out again, until you finally arrive at the center. This center can represent the Self at the center of our being”
- Kathy Bornino from A Labyrinth of Lifetimes
“Well, the only way out of here is to try one of these doors! One of them leads to the castle at the end of the labyrinth, and the other one leads to... Ba-baba-BOOM! Certain DEATH!”
Guards conversation from The Labyrinth movie
“The labyrinth is a universally imprinted archetype or theme illustrating our life’s journey towards spiritual development and completion”
“We can make choices about how we walk the labyrinth in the same way that we make choices about how we experience life.”
- Liz Simpson, The History of the Labyrinth
“How now Thersites? What, lost in the Labyrinth of thy furie?”
- William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida
“Does the imagination dwell the most, Upon a woman won or woman lost? If on the lost, admit you turned aside, From a great labyrinth out of pride”
- W.B. Yeats
“The Labyrinth. A Path to your deepest wisdom.”
“When you allow yourself to be who you truly are and not whom everyone else believes you should be, then you find your true self, hiding in the centre of the labyrinth formed by society’s lies encircling your essence”
- Rei , The Labyrinth: Rewiring The Nodes In The Maze Of Your Mind
“The chronicle of the labyrinth, and more recently, the maze, spans the past four thousand years, taking many twists and turns”
- Julie E Bounford, The Curious History of Mazes
"The labyrinth is a metaphor for the human psyche, with its many layers and hidden passages. It is a place of self-discovery and transformation." - Unknown
"The labyrinth is a place of peace and tranquility, where one can find solace and reflection." - Unknown
"The labyrinth is a place of mystery and magic, where anything is possible." - Unknown
"The labyrinth is a place of connection, where one can feel at one with oneself, with others, and with the universe." - Unknown
Quotes that fit doing a maze:
“Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.”
- Greg Anderson
”By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.”
- Christopher Columbus
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”
- Thomas Edison
“The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace.”
–Thich Nhat Hanh
“Not all those who wander are lost.”
-J.R.R. Tolkien
“There is no right or wrong path. There is only the path that you choose. Whatever you choose, there will be many opportunities for you to grow and expand”
- Quan Yin
“Well, when one's lost, I suppose it's good advice to stay where you are, until someone finds you. But who'd ever think to look for me here?”
- Alice (from Alice in Wonderland)
“Instead of searching for what you do not have, Find out what it is you have never lost.”
- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That
“Do you maze ?” - Me
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