19 May Quotes

The process of finding happiness within one's own Self may be difficult and slow but it cannot be found anywhere else.

Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected. We simply have to uncover it.

Then be not coy, but use your time; And while ye may, go marry: For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry.

I may be bad, but I’m perfectly good at it.

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.

By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.

Everyone is born with a certain potential. You may never achieve your full potential, but how close you come depends on how much you want to pay the price.

Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.

May I be a light for those in need of light. May I be a bed for those in need of rest. May I be a servant for those in need of service, for all embodied beings.

A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation.

You may think it's very presumptuous, but I really hope that my movies are going to turn people into better people.

May we never risk the life of our souls by being resentful or by bearing grudges.

You may chain my hands, you may shackle my feet; you may even throw me into a dark prison; but you shall not enslave my thinking, because it is free!

Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them.

Gentlemen, you may soon have the alternative to live as slaves or die as free men

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.

We may rest assured that God would never have suffered any infants to be slain except those who were already damned and predestined for eternal death.

While There may be power in forgiveness, there is even more power in lobbing a Molotov cocktail through someone's dining room window.

There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.

Thorns may hurt you, men desert you, sunlight turn to fog; but you're never friendless ever, if you have a dog.

From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains, Man's love of life, his weakness, and his pains; These first induce him the vile trash to try, Then lend his name, that other men may buy.

Choosing individual stocks without any idea of what you're looking for is like running through a dynamite factory with a burning match. You may live, but you're still an idiot.

I may have my faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.

Approved attributes and their relation to face make every man his own jailer; this is a fundamental social constraint even though each man may like his cell.

When the outcome drives the process we will only ever go where we've already been. If process drives the outcome we may not know where we're going, but we will know we want to be there.

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions.

It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

Golf tips are like aspirin. One may do you good, but if you swallow the whole bottle you will be lucky to survive.

I had this great urge... I had it the day I was born. Some may call it destiny. My parents and friends called it dismaying.

I can express no better hope for my country than that the kind Providence which smiled upon our fathers may enable their children to preserve the blessings they have inherited.

I am imperfect in many things, nevertheless I want my brethren and kinsfolk to know my nature so that they may be able to perceive my soul's desire.

If you surrender you shall be treated as prisoners of war, but if I haveto storm your works you may expect no quarter.

I am going your way, so let us go hand in hand. You help me and I'll help you. We shall not be here very long ... so let us help one another while we may.

No matter how old an individual may be, no matter if he is young or old, if he thinks in accordance with the times he is immortal.

Say the truth even if it may be bitter.

I'm 74 years old and even though I may be a bit of a rascal, 33 girls in two months seems to me too much even for a 30-year-old.

My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content!

A failure to understand something does not mean it is irrational. It may simply mean that it lies on the far side of our limited abilities to take things in and make complete sense of them.

Learn to recognize the counterfeit coins that may buy you just a moment of pleasure, But then drag you for days like a broken man behind a farting camel.

To Harald, may God forgive you and forgive me, too, but I prefer to take my life away and our baby's before I bring him with shame or killing him, Lupe. [Suicide note.]

From a little spark may burst a flame.

May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future.

Blood may be thicker than water, but it is still sticky, unpleasant and generally nauseating.

My greatest desire is that I may perceive the God whom I find everywhere in the external world, in like manner also within and inside myself.

You may not always end up where you thought you were going, But you will always end up where you were meant to be.

Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.

Man may penetrate the outer reaches of the universe, he may solve the very secret of eternity itself but for me, the ultimate human experience is to witness the flawless execution of the hit-and-run.