May Quotes
20575 May quotes by 7930 unique authors
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When we lose twenty pounds... we may be losing the twenty best pounds we have! We may be losing the pounds that contain our genius,…
— Woody Allen
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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. To live a fulfilled life, we…
— Mark Twain
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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. You can "already know for sure" things that could actually impede…
— Mark Twain
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We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we…
— Mark Twain
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The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders are readers. However…
— Mark Twain
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When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was…
— Mark Twain
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It may seem hard to extend our gratefulness and appreciation to the time in which we live and the challenges it presents... It would be…
— David Spangler
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Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment-the moment in which a man finds out,…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Love is the law of God. You live that you may learn to love. You love that you may learn to live. No other lesson…
— Mikhail Naimy
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Whatever books you may read, you cannot realize the Divine merely by intellectual effort. Oneness can only be promoted by the practice of love.
— Sathya Sai Baba
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For the material, at best, is only temporal, or temporary, while that which may be built from spiritual desire, spiritual purposes, is eternal.
— Edgar Cayce
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Man may be defined as the animal that can say ''I,'' that can be aware of himself as a separate entity.
— Erich Fromm
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May we awaken from the dream that we are different.
— Nhat Hanh
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Purify yourself from the attributes of self, so that you may see your own pure, untarnished essence.
— Unknown Author
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So that I may meet the day with the knowledge to build the day I will look into my soul while it still dawn, before…
— Walter Russell
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Walking the spiritual path properly is a very subtle process; it is not something to jump into naively. There are numerous sidetracks which leades to…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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Whatever qualities the rich may have, they can be acquired by anyone with the tenacity to become rich.
— Felix Dennis
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Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps luckier than one's neighbor, but still…
— Euripides
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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
— Aristophanes
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The Spartans say that any army may win while it still has legs under it; the real test comes when all strength is fled and…
— Steven Pressfield
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Problems may only be avoided by exercising good judgment. Good judgment may only be gained by experiencing life's problems.
— Jim Stovall
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Zeus most glorious and most great, Thundercloud, throned in the heavens! Let not the sun go down and the darkness come, until I cast down…
— Homer
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When fate is got it in for you, there is no limit to what you may have to put up with.
— Georgette Heyer
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The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some defect of talent or opportunity…
— John Jay Chapman
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They may well fear fate who have any infirmity of habit or aim: but they who rest on what is have a destiny beyond destiny,…
— Orison Swett Marden
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