Betray a friend, and you’ll often find you have ruined yourself.

Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.

If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.

When taking great leaps forward, life often turns to shit before it turns to Shinola.

What's in store for me in the direction I don't take?

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself

If something knocks you five degrees out of whack, the journey of a thousand miles that begins with a single step ends up thousands of miles away from its intended destination.

One wrong person in your circle can destroy your whole future.

..There will be the direct weakening effect, but much worse will be the inner psychological conflict between those who wish to reunite her and those who oppose this. New vested interest will be created which will resist change and progress, a new evil Karma will pursue us in the future. One wrong step leads to another; so it has been in the past and so it may be in the future. And yet wrong steps have to be taken sometimes lest some worse peril befall us; that is the great paradox of politics, and no man can say with surety whether present wrong-doing is better and safer in the end than the possibility of that imagined peril.

Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.

If you keep walking back from good luck, he thought, you’ll come to bad luck.

I have come to realize that destiny can hurt a person as much as it can bless them, and I find myself wondering why — out of all the people in all the world I could ever have loved — I had to fall in love with someone who was taken away from me.

They’ll say you’re walking down the wrong path, if you’re walking down your path.