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The middle way is a view of life that avoids the extreme of misguided grasping born of believing there is something we can find, or buy, or cling to that will not change. And it avoids the despair and nihilism born from the mistaken belief that nothing matters, that all is meaningless.

— Sharon Salzberg

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I think that anything in life is about the middle ground.

— Jillian Michaels

The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles.

— Anatole Broyard

As a newly married person, as much as I would love for my husband to buy into the 'my way or the highway' philosophy, you realize it's all about compromising and finding some sort of middle ground that everyone can live with.

— Gabrielle Union

I'm a true centrist: my beliefs put me in the middle... You know what happens to people who drive in the middle of the road? They get run over.

— Rob Lowe

Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.

— Thomas a Kempis

There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

— Alfred Korzybski

The narrow path that 'Uncommon' people will take, that the Lord wants you to go down, that really is the ultimate way to go.

— Tony Dungy

When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.

— John Updike

✗Opposing Perspectives

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open.

— Lillian Smith