May Quotes - Page 96

All great undertakings are achieved through mighty obstacles. Keep up the deepest mental poise. Take not even the slightest notice of what puerile creatures may be saying against you.

Live for an ideal, and that one ideal alone. Let it be so great, so strong, that there may be nothing else left in the mind; no place for anything else, no time for anything else.

If a thing happens once, it can happen again. If any human being has ever realised perfection, we too can do so. If we cannot become perfect here and now, we never can in any state or heaven or condition we may imagine.

When we have painful memories from hurting experiences, we may feel justified in holding on to the resentment. But resentment is corrosive. It doesn't affect the person we feel anger toward, it destroys the host.

Life may be treacherous, but you can always depend on death.

Love may be the best driving wheel, but anger is a pretty good second.

There may be fairies, there may be elves, but God helps those who help themselves.

What has been attained may again be lost. Only when you realise the true peace, the peace you have never lost, that peace will remain with you for it was never away. Instead of searching for what you do not have, find out what is it that you have never lost. That which is there before the beginning and after the ending of everything, to That there is no birth nor death. That Immovable state, which is not affected by the birth and death of a body or a mind, that state you must perceive.

I always wondered what hearing one's own obituary might sound like, and I sort of feel like I may have just heard part of it at least.

It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect.

A few hints as to the craft may be useful to budding historians. First and foremost, get writing!

Make sense who may. I switch off.

Inflict not on an enemy every injury in your power, for he may afterwards become your friend.

Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can't afford the risk of inaction.

Politics is, for me, forgive and -as you may have heard- sometimes forget.

Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey.

Freedom can reside only in a point of view, a way of looking upon the system of necessity.Surely this is the one freedom that we may attain to: not to be released from physical reality, but to understand reality and ourselves as part of it, and so be reconciled to what we are.

If you take risks, you may fail; but if you don't take risks, you will surely fail

When one is under pressure, one may lie in order to protect the religion, this is taught in the Qur'an.

When you are gripped by fear in the face of an experience that will take you beyond your comfort zone, you may be at a point of supreme opportunity. You can either break down or break through.

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.

Never forget that the nurturing and preservation of your own muse is job one. Lose it and you may be losing a great deal.

I have some friends that just stick to the same criteria over and over again not realizing there are lots of other kinds of people and that may be what you like. People get in that mindset and put their blinders on.

I think myself obliged, whatever my private apprehensions may be of the success, to do my duty, and leave events to their Disposer.

Your own photography is never enough. Every photographer who has lasted has depended on other peoples pictures too - photographs that may be public or private, serious or funny, but that carry with them a reminder of community.