L S May Quotes

I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful hault, 'won't go,' or, even worse, explodes in some innocent person's face.

in the very long run any success devours - and perhaps also corrupts.

It feels a long way up and down from zero.

There the door is always open into the “holy” — growth, birth, death.

For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was.

Routine is not a prison, but the way into freedom from time.

Is it perhaps the one necessity of love, that it be needed? And the one great human tragedy that it so rarely is?

Miracles cannot be explained, that is their miraculous nature.

Do we always make our freedom out of someone else's bondage?

when I am working I immediately feel hopeful.

About loving, I have little to learn from the young.

I feel often very close to the ecstasy and anguish which lie at the very heart of poetry - I am writing a lot.

Knowing reality is knowing that you can't lose it.

people in great trouble don't change to other people. They only change to themselves.

The War will leave none of us as it found us.

when you think you've got hold of a genius ... you can't be sure whether it's a spark of the divine fire or a mere flash in the pan.

And I wasn't a journalist any more than I was a trained nurse.

Some women choose to stay at home and be housewives. If they are happy with it, then it's a wonderful choice. But I know I couldn't do that. I couldn't be a housewife.

I do struggle with the fact that I don't have all the answers.

I started accessible GPS research in 1994 and the first version became available on a laptop in 2000.

It is quite unsettling looking into someone's eyes, especially when you aren't used to it.

I've got to read the 'Hunger Games' before I see the movie.

You have these 'hot towers', tropical storm clouds acting like chimneys to carry heat to the upper atmosphere.

Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.

When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.

There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.

Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?

It is infinitely safer to know that the man at the top has his doubts, as you and I have ours, yet has the courage to move ahead in spite of these doubts.

Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, and to demonstrate that they, too, are significant.

Lacking positive myths to guide him, many a sensitive contemporary man finds only the model of the machine beckoning him from every side to make himself over into its image.

Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow, to move ahead.

Forge in the smithy of your soul.

Unconscious insights or answers to problems that come in reverie do not come hit or miss... they pertain to those areas in which the person consciously has worked laboriously and with dedication.

The turtle only makes progress when it's neck is stuck out.

There is no meaningful yes unless the individual could also have said no.

Reason works better when emotions are present; the person sees sharper and more accurately when his emotions are engaged.

Our powerful hunger for myth is a hunger for community. The person without a myth is a person without a home...To be a member of one's community is to share in its myths.

If the will remains in protest, it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against.

What Kierkegaard said about love is also true of creativity: every person must start at the beginning.

Finding the center of strenghth within ourselves is in the long run best contribution we can do to our fellow man

They pursue meaninglessness until they can force it to mean.

We cannot will to have insights. We cannot will to have creativity, but we can will to give ourselves to the creative experience with intensity of dedication and commitment.

This is hard for parents to say genuinely.

Those we call saints rebelled against an outmoded and inadequate form of God on the basis of their new insights into divinity.

Artists do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being.

Everyone has a need for significance; and if we can't make that possible, or even probable, in our society, then it will be obtained in destructive ways.

We receive love — from our children as well as others — not in proportion to our demands or sacrifices or needs, but roughly in proportion to our own capacity to love.

Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being.

Joy is the effect which comes when we use our powers.

The creative process must be explored... as the expression of the normal people in the act of actualizing themselves.