The road up and the road down is one and the same.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The path up and the path down are essentially the same journey viewed from opposite directions.
- In plain terms
- Going up and down are the same road seen differently.
- What can you take from it?
- Perspective changes how we view progress.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How does perspective alter the experience of success or failure?
- Can we truly treat setbacks as part of the same path?
Another view
It can ignore the practical differences between ascent and descent.
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Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.
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