May 2009
31 posts
“The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew...”
– George Bernard Shaw
May 31st
“If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things...”
– Zen proverb
May 30th
“There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The...”
– Albert Einstein
May 29th
“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson...”
– Unknown
May 28th
“The shell must break before the bird can fly.”
– Tennyson
May 27th
“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.”
– Dave Gardner
May 26th
“We do not see things as they are; we see things as we are.”
– Talmud
May 25th
“He is most powerful who has power over himself.”
– Seneca, Epistulae ad Lucilium
May 24th
“A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: ...”
– Unknown
May 23rd
“Real love is always fated. It has been arranged before time. It is the most...”
– Mike Mason, The Mystery of Marriage
May 22nd
“I am convinced that the species humanity embraces the double species man and...”
– St. Edith Stein
May 21st
“He sang the brightness of morning and green rivers, He sang of smoking water in...”
– Orpheus and Euridice by Czeslaw Milosz
May 20th
“Notice two steps in the relation of knowing and loving. At the beginning we can...”
– Fulton Sheen, p. 64 of Life Is Worth Living
May 19th
“The novitiate of marriage must necessarily embrace two elements: the...”
– Fulton Sheen, Three to Get Married, p. 215
May 18th
“True love. Is it normal is it serious, is it practical? What does the world...”
– True Love, by Wislawa Szymborska
May 17th
“The only ones who are truly beautiful are those who look beautiful when they...”
– Fulton Sheen, Three to Get Married, p. 103
May 16th
“In western lands beneath the Sun the flowers may rise in Spring, the trees may...”
– J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
May 15th
“For each of us the time is surely coming when we shall have nothing but God....”
– A. W. Tozer
May 14th
“He who thinks without speaking is just as bad as the person who speaks without...”
– Unknown
May 13th
“You know, in life you’re gonna get tempted to do anything and everything. I...”
– Jaci Velasquez
May 12th
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“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are...”
– Nelson Mandela, Inaugural Speech, 1994
May 11th
“Try not to be a person of success but a person of value.”
– Albert Einstein
May 10th
“[T]ension between the “desire for greatness” and the “small way of fidelity”...”
– Mother Adela Galindo, Spiritual Discernment
May 9th
“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though...”
– President Theodore Roosevelt
May 8th
“The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.”
– Chinese Proverb
May 7th
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
– Senator Robert F. Kennedy
May 6th
“When a distinguished but elderly statesman states that something is possible, he...”
– Arthur C. Clarke
May 5th
“A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.”
– English Proverb
May 4th
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
– Confucius
May 3rd
“If A equals success, then the formula is A=X+Y+Z, where X is “work,”...”
– Albert Einstein
May 2nd
“Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.”
– Dr. Henry Kissinger
May 1st