May Quotes - Page 49

You may command nature to the extent only in which you are willing to obey her.

The Lord has a plan. We always think the plans are A, B, C and D, and everything is going to be perfect for us and it may not be that way, but it's still His plan.

We must develop the capacity to see men not as they are at present but as they may become.

In every chain of reasoning, the evidence of the last conclusion can be no greater than that of the weakest link of the chain, whatever may be the strength of the rest.

A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the will.

Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.

Take care of your health, that it may serve you to serve God.

More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.

According to great masters, there is no sin and there is no virtue. There is only one thing: that is awareness. If you are aware, you can do anything you want and it is not sin. If you are not aware, you may do so-called virtuous acts, but there is no virtue in them. Out of unconsciousness virtue cannot blossom. It blossoms only when you are full of light, full of love, full of consciousness.

Sickness may be the solemn occasion of God's intervention in a person's life.

In some instances, you may care so much about the person who has hurt you, or be so unable to be angry with him (or with anyone), that you rationalize his hurtful acts by finding some basis in your own actions for his hurtful behavior; you then feel guilty rather than angry. Put in other terms, you become angry with yourself rather than with the one who hurt you.

Nature may reach the same result in many ways.

Those people who think only of themselves, are hopelessly uneducated. They are not educated, no matter how instructed they may be.

Whatever the lengths to which others may go, His Majesty's Government will never resort to the deliberate attack on women and children and other civilians for purposes of mere terrorism.

Keep on keeping on, no matter how hard the going may be.

There is something that can be found in one place. It is a great treasure which may be called the fulfillment of existence. The place where this treasure can be found is the place where one stands

Only in intimate communion with solitude may man find himself. Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who fear or shun it.

Since there are so many idiots out there, you may actually start to think you're crazy. You are not. They are idiots.

Those who cannot hear an angry shout may strain to hear a whisper.

Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have

The power to tax involves the power to destroy;...the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create.

And may the best of you - for it will only be the best of you, and even then only in the rarest and briefest moments - succeed in framing that most basic of questions, 'how do we live?'

May my life be like a great hospitable tree, and may weary wanderers find in me a rest.

I think if you study--if you learn too much of what others have done, you may tend to take the same direction as everybody else.

Instead of hoping he must fear and instead of fearing he must hope. He must fear that his loss may develop into a much bigger loss, and hope that his profit may become a big profit.