"You may have a plan, but life throws you curve balls. Put God first; his plan is better anyway."
Read quote
7 likes
May quotes
May
9.1K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to May
Browse quotes that often appear alongside may — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
May quotes (page 61 of 454)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct."
Read quote
7 likes
"You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing; it encourages much."
Read quote
7 likes
"Everything you do is by choice. It may not seem so, but it is."
Read quote
7 likes
"It is my wish that you may have at better and freer life than I have had. Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience; this was what upheld me in time of misery."
Read quote
7 likes
"Must's a schoolroom in the month of may"
Read quote
6 likes
"When I see these primitive effects coming into my pictures subconsciously, even though the perspective may be slightly out, I leave them in if it helps the general composition."
Read quote
6 likes
"Whether we are rich or poor, educated or uneducated, whatever our nationality, colour, social status or ideology may be, the purpose of our lives is to be happy"
Read quote
6 likes
"Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties."
Read quote
6 likes
"The old field of space, time, matter, and the senses is to be weeded, dug, and sown for a new crop. We may be tired of that old field: God is not."
Read quote
6 likes
"As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may think he does, but when he is brought to the test it proves otherwise... For it is the very mark of Eros that when he is in us we had rather share unhappiness with the Beloved than be happy on any other terms."
Read quote
6 likes
"Do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune, but all the dead are dead like."
Read quote
6 likes
"God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous"
Read quote
6 likes
"Necessity may not be the opposite of freedom, and perhaps a man is most free when, instead of producing motives, he could only say, "I am what I do."
Read quote
6 likes
"You can enjoy the present moment, and you can be aligned with the doing. A different state of consciousness, then, is the foundation for what you do. Presence flows into what you do. Even though what you do may be the same, there is a fundamental difference: The energy that flows into what you do, although it may be high energy, is very peaceful energy. It is not out of alignment with life."
Read quote
6 likes
"Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey only has one: the step you are taking right now."
Read quote
6 likes
"For tomorrow may rain, so I'll follow the sun..."
Read quote
6 likes
"In the camera business, you won't survive if you don't innovate. In the guitar business you may or may not. The guitars being sold were designed between '48 and '59, Gibson SGs in '61."
Read quote
6 likes
"You may not be winning, but this doesn't mean you are losing"
Read quote
6 likes
"If something happens once, it may never happen again. If it happens twice it most likely will keep happening."
Read quote
6 likes