Mays Quotes (page 187)

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• new
• street
• change

When we're done with it, we may find—if it's a good novel—that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have been changed a little, as if by having meet a new face, crossed a street we've never crossed before. Ursula K. Le Guin

• personality
• may
• personal

Everyone must become their own person, however frightful that may be. Albert Einstein

• love
• strong
• may

Ah, love may be strong, but a habit is stronger, And I knew when I loved by the way I behaved. Peter S. Beagle

• good
• dead
• may

if you live you may yet have good fortune but all the dead are dead alike C. S. Lewis

• may
• resolving
• beings

You may be whatever you resolve to be. Stonewall Jackson

• new
• world
• may

We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away. Alan Moore

• learning
• smile
• may

Many undoubtedly owe their good fortune to the circumstance that they possess a pleasing smile with which they win hearts. Yet these hearts would do better to beware and to learn from Hamlet's tables that one may smile, and smile, and be a villain. Arthur Schopenhauer

• may
• wept
• wills

You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept. Khalil Gibran

• choose
• enough
• shadow

Virginia Wolf wrote, 'Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword.' On one side of that sword, she said, there lies convention and tradition and order, where all is correct. But on the other side of that sword, if you're crazy enough to cross it and choose a life that does not follow convention, 'all is confusion.' Nothing follows a regular course. Her argument was that the crossing of the shadow of that sword may bring a more interesting existence to a woman,... Elizabeth Gilbert

• jokes
• men
• may

The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke. Jane Austen

• faith
• heart
• may

Faithful heart may have froward tongue J. R. R. Tolkien

• women
• saying
• single

We can't stand it, to be alone. We cannot bear it, any more than the monks of old could bear it, men who though they had renounced all else for Christ's sake, nevertheless came together in congregations to be with one another, even as they enforced upon themselves the harsh rules of single solitary cells and unbroken silence. They couldn't bear to be alone. We are too much men and women; we are yet formed in the image of the Creater, and what can we say of Him with any certainty except that... Anne Rice

• passion
• world
• greatness

We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

• good deeds
• friends
• journey

HOROSCOPE: Today is a good time for making new friends. A good deed may have unforeseen consequences. Don’t upset any druids. You will soon be going on a very strange journey. Your lucky food is small cucumbers. People pointing knives at you are probably up to no good. PS, we really mean it about the druids. Terry Prachett

• knowledge
• science
• imagination

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination. Bertrand Russell