Showing posts with label May. Show all posts
Showing posts with label May. Show all posts

Limited Grief

“Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.”
--Pliny the Elder

Accept Challenges

“Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.”
--George S. Patton Jr.

Enemies Accumulate

“Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.”
--Thomas Hudson Jones

Your Own Road

“It’s your road, and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.”
--Jalal-al-Din Rumi

Do Right

“May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.”
--Peter Marshall

Difficult at First

“It may seem difficult at first, but everything is difficult at first.”
--Miyamoto Musashi

Seeds of Love

“May the seeds of love you plant today, grow into the tree of happiness you enjoy tomorrow.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Day Dreamers

“The dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.”
--Thomas Edward Lawrence

Forward Progress

“I may walk slow, but I do not walk backwards.”
--Abraham Lincoln

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Sanctify Evil

“A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil, that good may come of it.”
--William Penn

Bad Relationship

“Being alone may scare you, but being in a bad relationship will damage you.”
--Unknown

Will Not Follow

“I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail.”
--Muriel Strode

Keep Learning

“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for learning, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”
--Atwood H. Townsend

Save Ourselves

“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”
--Buddha

Find Sweetness

“Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart.”
--Jalal-al-Din Rumi

Real Mistake

“A failure is not always a mistake. It may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.”
--B.F. Skinner

Patient Persistence

“Opportunity may come to the patient, but always comes to the persistent.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Rough Diamonds

“Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.”
--Thomas Browne

Reflect Your Hopes

“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.”
--Nelson Mandela

Come What May

“If I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it; keep going, keep going come what may.”
--Vincent van Gogh