May quotes

May

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Kevin Gates
Kevin Gates Rapper, singer, songwriter

"I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this."

Swami Vivekananda
Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher

"You are incarnations of God, all of you. You are incarnations of the Almighty, Omnipresent, Divine Principle. You may laugh at me now, but the time will come when you will understand. You must. Nobody will be left behind."

Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa Missionary, Nun

"The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."

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Joe Hill Labor Activist, Songwriter
May

"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."

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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
May

"When you talk you are only repeating something you already know. But, if you listen you may learn something new."

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Haile Selassie Emperor
May

"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"

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
May

"Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart."

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Ramana Maharshi Spiritual Teacher
May

"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."

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
May

"It's your road & yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you"

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Franz Kafka Writer
May

"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."

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Ada Lovelace Mathematician, Writer
May

"Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand."

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Viktor E. Frankl Psychiatrist, Neurologist
May

"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"

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Ada Lovelace Mathematician, Writer
May

"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."

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Kanye West Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer
May

"You may be talented but you're not Kanye West."

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Rene Descartes Philosopher, Mathematician
May

"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."

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Clara Barton Nurse, Activist
May

"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."

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Jim Morrison Musician, Poet
May

"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?"

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