"I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this."
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"Who knows what may lie around the next corner? There may be a window somewhere ahead. It may look out on a field of sunflowers."
"When you talk you are only repeating something you already know. But, if you listen you may learn something new."
"Any who may wish to profit himself alone from the knowledge given him, rather than serve others through the knowledge he has gained from learning, is betraying knowledge and rendering it worthless"
"Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart."
"Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent."
"It's your road & yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you"
"Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God."
"Mathematical reasoning may be regarded."
"I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. Basically it is nothing other than this fear we have so often talked about, but fear spread to everything, fear of the greatest as of the smallest, fear, paralyzing fear of pronouncing a word, although this fear may not only be fear but also a longing for something greater than all that is fearful."
"Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand."
"To be sure, man's search for meaning may arouse inner tension rather than inner equilibrium. However, precisely such tension is an indispensable prerequisite of mental health. There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life. There is much wisdom in the words of Nietzsche: "He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how"
"We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us."
"I never am really satisfied that I understand anything; because, understand it well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand about the many connections and relations which occur to me, how the matter in question was first thought of or arrived at, etc., etc."
"It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me."
"You may be talented but you're not Kanye West."
"I have concluded the evident existence of God, and that my existence depends entirely on God in all the moments of my life, that I do not think that the human spirit may know anything with greater evidence and certitude."
"Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had"
"I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay."
"Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician."
"Is everybody in?... Is everybody in?... Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin... The program for this evening is not new. You've seen this entertainment through and through. You've seen your birth, your life and death. You might recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? Enough to base a movie on?"