Lawrence Fagg Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Life is a process of continually reordering priorities.

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

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

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