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 More Quotes by Lawrence Fagg More Quotes From Lawrence Fagg Years ago I heard the Indian Jesuit Raimundo Panikkar say: Expect Nothing. Lawrence Fagg jesuit expect-nothing years Ideals are great as long as they don't get in the way of what we want to do. Lawrence Fagg want long way Until we can sense a sacred quality in time we will not begin to have a fuller understanding of it. Lawrence Fagg sacred quality understanding I feel that the only true security I have is my capacity, however limited, to love. Lawrence Fagg security capacity feels We all have the right to be wrong and be loved just the same. Lawrence Fagg I think that an act of love is immortal; once tendered, it can never really be taken back. Lawrence Fagg taken love-is thinking Before I can accept someone's help, I must accept their presence. Lawrence Fagg accepting i-can helping The man who says that he does not deserve his wife is probably right, but not for the reasons he thinks. Lawrence Fagg wife men thinking I see a good marriage as being like two tall trees growing beside each other, each nourishing the grace of the other. Lawrence Fagg grace tree two On the whole I feel that life has treated me rather well, but I sometimes wonder how well have I treated life. Lawrence Fagg wells wonder sometimes I'm afraid my glass is no longer half full because I drank most of it. Lawrence Fagg drank glasses half 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 said cards 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 care dying years One of the small consolations of old age, if you are lucky, can be at least a partial recovery of innocence. Lawrence Fagg recovery lucky age Life is a process of continually reordering priorities. Lawrence Fagg priorities process life-is For some of us life is so fantastic we can't stand it. Lawrence Fagg fantastic life-is How unfortunate it is to be constrained by what people might say at our funeral or on our gravestone. Lawrence Fagg funeral might people 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 guilt real wish To insist that I am not forgiven is a kind of inverse arrogance. Lawrence Fagg forgiven arrogance kind How frustrating it is to be out-argued by someone you know is dead wrong but is more eloquent. Lawrence Fagg eloquent frustrating knows
