Lawrence Fagg famous quotes

Years ago I heard the Indian Jesuit Raimundo Panikkar say: Expect Nothing.
-- Lawrence Fagg

#Years #Expect Nothing #Jesuit

We all have the right to be wrong and be loved just the same.
-- Lawrence Fagg

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Ideals are great as long as they don't get in the way of what we want to do.
-- Lawrence Fagg

#Long #Want #Way

Until we can sense a sacred quality in time we will not begin to have a fuller understanding of it.
-- Lawrence Fagg

#Understanding #Quality #Sacred

I feel that the only true security I have is my capacity, however limited, to love.
-- Lawrence Fagg

#Capacity #Feels #Security

I think that an act of love is immortal; once tendered, it can never really be taken back.
-- Lawrence Fagg

#Taken #Thinking #Love Is

If there were no nobodies, The somebodies would not have anybody, To convince that they were somebody, Except some other somebody, Who would not be convinced anyway.
-- Lawrence Fagg

#Convince #Ifs #Convinced

Before I can accept someone's help, I must accept their presence.
-- Lawrence Fagg

#Helping #Accepting #I Can

The man who says that he does not deserve his wife is probably right, but not for the reasons he thinks.
-- Lawrence Fagg

#Men #Thinking #Wife

I see a good marriage as being like two tall trees growing beside each other, each nourishing the grace of the other.
-- Lawrence Fagg

#Two #Tree #Grace

On the whole I feel that life has treated me rather well, but I sometimes wonder how well have I treated life.
-- Lawrence Fagg

#Sometimes #Wonder #Wells

I'm afraid my glass is no longer half full because I drank most of it.
-- Lawrence Fagg

#Glasses #Half #Drank

It is said that in life we must play with the cards we are dealt, but too often I have kept those cards too close to my chest.
-- Lawrence Fagg

#Play #Cards #Said

Everything I do or say will be forgotten in a few short years. Yet how amazing and wonderful it is that somehow I still care, just simply care about whatever I do, and will probably do so until my dying moment.
-- Lawrence Fagg

#Years #Dying #Care

One of the small consolations of old age, if you are lucky, can be at least a partial recovery of innocence.
-- Lawrence Fagg

#Recovery #Age #Lucky

Life is a process of continually reordering priorities.
-- Lawrence Fagg

#Priorities #Life Is #Process

For some of us life is so fantastic we can't stand it.
-- Lawrence Fagg

#Life Is #Fantastic

How unfortunate it is to be constrained by what people might say at our funeral or on our gravestone.
-- Lawrence Fagg

#People #Funeral #Might

How often have I tried just hard enough so that I can then say to myself that I tried with the real purpose of assuaging my guilt about something I did not wish to succeed in the first place?
-- Lawrence Fagg

#Real #Wish #Guilt

To insist that I am not forgiven is a kind of inverse arrogance.
-- Lawrence Fagg

#Arrogance #Kind #Forgiven

How frustrating it is to be out-argued by someone you know is dead wrong but is more eloquent.
-- Lawrence Fagg

#Frustrating #Eloquent #Knows

How much more comfortable it is to say 'Yes, and...' than 'Yes, but...'.
-- Lawrence Fagg

#Comfortable