"May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day."
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"By mutual respect, understanding and with good will we can find acceptable solutions to any problems which exist or may arise between us."
"I found a strawberry blossom in a rock. I uprooted it rashly and felt as if I had been committing an outrage, so I planted it again."
"May your hands be an extension of your heart and may you do the work of love with them."
"I definitely do things on my terms, it may not seem that way but I actually do."
"Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy."
"You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!"
"An intense feeling carries with it its own universe, magnificent or wretched as the case may be."
"Verbal representations of such places or scenes may, or may not, have the merit of accuracy; but photographic presentments of them will be accepted by posterity with an undoubting faith."
"Anonymously perform acts of kindness, expecting nothing in return, not even a thank-you. The universal all-creating Spirit responds to acts of kindness with the response: "How may I be kind to you?""
"The liar is no whit better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth."
"Bestow upon me, O Lord my God, understanding to know thee, diligence to seek thee, wisdom to find thee, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace thee."
"But the man who is not afraid to admit everything that he sees to be wrong with himself, and yet recognizes that he may be the object of God's love precisely because of his shortcomings, can begin to be sincere. His sincerity is based on confidence, not in his own illusions about himself, but in the endless, unfailing mercy of God."
"Though God may be Love, God is Truth above all."
"When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity - regardless of what others may do - you are destined for greatness."
"Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler."
"If education is to develop human nature so that it may attain the object of its being, it must involve the exercise of judgment."
"All your ideas may be solid or even good .. But you have to Actually EXECUTE on them for them to matter."
"Perhaps I failed, but I did my best, These masters of mine may do the rest."
"But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also upon his back, tell him, that be has nothing to do either with the load or the lash."