M Quotes
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“Maybe the worst reason to do anything. I got scared.”
Source: A Pause in the Perpetual Rotation
“Maybe the yogi is a parent who's a little more patient with their child, or a more compassionate coworker, or an understanding boss. Perhaps, they pick up a piece of trash that wasn't theirs, turn off a light when they're not in the room, or turn off the water while they brush their teeth, sensitive to the finite nature of our worldly resources. When we become mindful this way, there's a ripple effect. We inspire others to do the same.”
“Maybe their sorrow . . . should have brought the two men closer, but sorrow is unreliable in that way. When people don't share it, there's a good chance it will drive them apart instead.”
“Maybe then he would have understood her better, understood how suffering steals the aptitude for happiness from you. Maybe he would have been okay with her melancholy then.”
Source: And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges
“Maybe then I would submit to it's rigid ideals if I were recognized as worthy of experiencing them.”
Source: Easy Beauty
“Maybe then we will see the design of the two-minded creature
And know why half the world fights righteously for greedy masters
And the other half is nailing it all back together”
“Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!”
Source: Black Swan Green
“Maybe there are moments between any two adults in love when the age of one of them dissolves before the other's eyes, when the first refuge of the soul at its creation is laid bare and skinless as a sunbeam through a window. Innocence and vulnerability, two unmeasurable quantities...Perhaps that is the essence of the protection's intimacy, that it dwells in camouflage and justifies itself in stillness.”
“Maybe there are no endings
and yet
we feel things end
(as we feel the ground beneath our feet
and yet its solidity is, too, an illusion).
Maybe there are no beginnings,
as the inception of all is the energy source
which has been vibrating
for millions of years.
Then how do we feel so deeply
the power of beginnings
and endings
if they don't really exist?
Contradictory co-existing realities.
Not paradoxes.
Yes, contradictory.
Yes, both true.
Yes, all at the same time.
The complexity of existence.”
“Maybe, there are no good people. Maybe, there are only good decisions.”
“Maybe there are only atheists in foxholes. If the faithful truly and fully believe in a protective deity, why would they dive into a foxhole to protect themselves from the bullets whizzing by ? A part of their brain knows damn well that if they do not protect themselves, the bullets will hardly discriminate between those who claim faith and those who reject it.”
“Maybe there are only three kinds of stories: those we live, those we tell, and those that help our souls fly upwards to a greater life.”
“Maybe there are some people you can’t unlove no matter how hard you try. Maybe there are some people you stay connected to, because they’ve hurt you to your very core. You keep hoping that somehow the pain can be resolved if they finally do the right thing, but the right thing can never be done because it had to have been done in the past.”
Source: Love's Remains
“Maybe there are some things we were put on this earth not to know.”
“Maybe there are some traditional things, but they are more about the way the West packages the East.”
“Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.”
“Maybe there are times when an honest hatred serves us better than love corrupted by sentimentality, meretriciousness, sententiousness, cuteness.”
Source: Signposts in a Strange Land
“Maybe there are times when mystery is more important than knowledge. I realized that the white page is a magic box. Ultimately, the mistery box is all of us. Ubiquitous technologies. What comes next ? Mystery as catalyst for imagination.”
“Maybe there exists an inherent contradiction in our desires. Maybe this is the reason why we never feel contentment even after the fulfilment of our desires. Maybe we desire actually of a ‘continuous desire’ or persistence of a desire and not its ‘fulfilment’ as such.”
Source: Memoir: The Cathartic Night
“Maybe there in a set amount of crying your body needs to deal with any trauma. There’s a certain water-level of tears you need to shed until you can find acceptance or move on or whatever. And, if you don’t cry them out, they just catch up with you.”
Source: How Hard Can Love Be?
“Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”
Source: Lord of the Flies: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“Maybe there is a feeling that women get judged more about how they look and how they present themselves visually as opposed to what they are thinking and feeling. Especially as a female performer that happens a lot, and I think that is regressing even more, which I find really sad.”
“Maybe there is a single spot, just one, where living organisms are holed up. Maybe so, but if so this would be the strangest thing of all, absolutely incomprehensible. For we are not familiar with this kind of living. We do not have solitary, isolated creatures. It is beyond our imagination to conceive of a single form of life that exists alone and independent, unattached to other forms.”
“Maybe there is a sort of a sweet middle ground there, where you can do something with something with like 20 to 40 million and do something which is much more character driven, but still create a sort of visual spectacle around it. That is what I'd like to do.”
“Maybe there is an invisible world working behind our own, maybe words in the silence, maybe movements in what looks completely still. When every door is closed, maybe doors are opening that can’t be seen.”
Source: Beautiful Affliction
“Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world.”
“Maybe there is hope in the fragments, that what is lost can always be filled in by someone who knows.”
Source: The Realm of Possibility
“maybe there is more to a person than a body and a mind. maybe something else figures into the mix— not a soul, exactly, but a spirit that hints you might one day be greater, stronger than you are now. a promise; a potential.”
“Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.”
“Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.”
“Maybe there is no better novel in the world than Denton Welch's In Youth Is Pleasure. Just holding it in my hands, so precious, so beyond gay, so deliciously subversive, is enough to make illiteracy a worse social crime than hunger.”
“Maybe there is no good God. But there is definitely a devil, and his predominant passion is the religion of Protestant fundamentalists. I believe my country is beginning to resemble a theocracy. Using television, the evangelists raise appalling amounts of money which they then invest in the election of mentally disabled obscurantists.”
“Maybe there is no Heaven. Or maybe this is all pure gibberish - a product of the demented imagination of a lazy drunken hillbilly with a heart full of hate who has found a way to live out where the real winds blow - to sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky, and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind except falling in love and not getting arrested... Res ipsa loquitur. Let the good times roll.”
“Maybe there is no objective experience, but there is a certain way of interacting with all the subjective experiences.”
“Maybe there is no one perfect person and anyone you end up with will eventually make you think there’s someone better out there.”
Source: Waiting For You
“Maybe there is no peace in this world. I don't know ... But I know as long as we live we must stay true to ourselves.”
“Maybe there is no single self to speak of. Maybe you're a shifting collage of many different personas, each as authentic as the next. A kaleidoscope of ever-moving fragments, reflecting a thousand little impressions of the world around you, with flashes of different moods and vibrant clusters of quirks — but no broader pattern.
Maybe you have no true colors. You're not some finished painting, signed and sealed in varnish. If there is a “real you,” surely it’s the mess of paint on the palette: colors swirling and mixing and playing together, perpetually unfinished, searching and striving to make something new.”
Source: The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
“Maybe there is some Abnegation in everyone, even if they don't know it.”
Source: Divergent
“Maybe there is something special about my mother's spices---"
Do I tell him about all my fantasies? Nah, I'm living them now. I smile and get back to chopping up the tarragon, inhaling the sweet, grassy aroma. I let myself fall in love. I let myself float into bliss. I have my dream and it came with more happiness than I had ever imagined.
"Or maybe we just have the perfect chemistry," I say.
Through it all, Charles and I learned that letting go of negativity leads to happier futures (and better food and sex). As for Garrance, her work is complete; she's found happiness for Charles and me, her and my mother's plan all along. Magic? Some may say. But love is the greatest magic of all---and a required ingredient for everyone.”
Source: The Spice Master at Bistro Exotique
“Maybe there is something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt because it matters.”
“Maybe there is still some hope. If man is indeed made in the image of God, as I believed in the pre-Auschwitz days, maybe there are still some godly sparks left in men and some humanity in God.”
“Maybe there isn’t such a thing as fate. Maybe it’s just the opportunities we’re given, and what we do with them.”
Source: Cress
“Maybe there isn’t such a thing as fate. Maybe it’s just the opportunities we’re given, and what we do with them. I’m beginning to think that maybe great, epic romances don’t just happen. We have to make them ourselves.”
Source: Cress
“Maybe there isn't a God after all, maybe there's only a universe rotating by itself like a millstone.”
“Maybe there isn't a meaning to life. Maybe there's only a meaning to living.”
“Maybe there must always be two of us—our real selves and the ones we create to survive in the world as it is.”
Source: Ripe
“Maybe there never was a winning team, not really. Not when war was tanks and guns and trenches instead of laughter and innocence.”
Source: Yesterday's Tides
“Maybe there really isn't any such thing as mortality; life simply wears us out with love.”
Source: Kindness Goes Unpunished: A Longmire Mystery
“Maybe there really only was one singular white man staring down at the world from his official boots and his official vehicle and his official sunglasses hanging high over his official smirk.”
Source: Our Country Friends
“Maybe there’s a book in here that will tell me what to do when all the smart choices feel wrong.”
Source: What You Hide