Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
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Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
May God in His mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may He lead us to Himself.
May the God of peace arouse in all an authentic desire for dialogue and reconciliation. Violence cannot be overcome with violence. Violence is overcome with peace.
Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time. I must continue to bear testimony to truth even if I am forsaken by all. Mine may today be a voice in the wilderness, but it will be heard when all other voices are silenced, if it is the voice of Truth.
You may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.
It may well be a sign of the decadence of the Church and the failure of Christianity that gifts have to be coaxed out of people, and that often they will not give at all unless they get something for their money in the way of entertainment or of goods. Giving which is real giving has a certain recklessness in it.
Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.
Do what is right, though the world may perish.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
I hope all of us may eventually be together in everlasting peace and bliss -- except the inventor of the # telephone .
It may take two people to make a really beautiful mistake.
If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.
When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.
May our prayers today, and every day, be from our hearts and with the focus of our whole being.
Live for an ideal, and that one ideal alone. Let it be so great, so strong, that there may be nothing else left in the mind; no place for anything else, no time for anything else.
There is a thing inherent and natural which existed before heaven and earth. Motionless and fathomless, It stands alone and never changes; It pervades everywhere and never becomes exhausted. It may be regarded as the Mother of the Universe. I do not know its name. If I am forced to give It a name, I call it Tao, and I name it as supreme.
Sometimes fairy stories may say best what's to be said.
Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
There are few professing Christians, it may be feared, who strive to imitate Christ in the matter of private devotion. There is abundance of hearing, reading, talking, professing, visiting, contributing to the poor and teaching at schools. But is there, together with all this, a due proportion of private prayer? Are believing men and women sufficiently careful to be frequently alone with God?
We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man
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