Lawrence Fagg Quotes

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

  Lawrence Fagg

  Years, Expect Nothing, Jesuit

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

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  Lawrence W. Fagg (2009). “Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living”, p.45, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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

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  Arrogance, Kind, Forgiven

  Lawrence W. Fagg (2009). “Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living”, p.31, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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

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  Understanding, Quality, Sacred

  Lawrence W. Fagg (2009). “Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living”, p.49, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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

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  Capacity, Feels, Security

  Lawrence W. Fagg (2009). “Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living”, p.23, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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

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  Long, Want, Way

  Lawrence W. Fagg (2009). “Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living”, p.3, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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

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  Taken, Thinking, Love Is

  Lawrence W. Fagg (2009). “Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living”, p.60, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• 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.

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  Convince, Ifs, Convinced

  Lawrence W. Fagg (2009). “Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living”, p.16, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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

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  Helping, Accepting, I Can

  Lawrence W. Fagg (2009). “Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living”, p.29, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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

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  Men, Thinking, Wife

  Lawrence W. Fagg (2009). “Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living”, p.32, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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

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  Two, Tree, Grace

  Lawrence W. Fagg (2009). “Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living”, p.39, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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

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  Sometimes, Wonder, Wells

  Lawrence W. Fagg (2009). “Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living”, p.41, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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

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  Glasses, Half, Drank

  Lawrence W. Fagg (2009). “Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living”, p.38, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• 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.

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  Years, Dying, Care

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

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  Recovery, Age, Lucky

  Lawrence W. Fagg (2009). “Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living”, p.7, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Life is a process of continually reordering priorities.

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  Priorities, Life Is, Process

  Lawrence W. Fagg (2009). “Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living”, p.14, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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

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  Life Is, Fantastic

  Lawrence W. Fagg (2009). “Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living”, p.21, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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

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  People, Funeral, Might

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• 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?

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  Real, Wish, Guilt

  Lawrence W. Fagg (2009). “Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living”, p.27, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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

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  Frustrating, Eloquent, Knows

  Lawrence W. Fagg (2009). “Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living”, p.34, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• 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.

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  Play, Cards, Said

  Lawrence W. Fagg (2006). “Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living”, p.35, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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

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  Comfortable

  Lawrence W. Fagg (2009). “Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living”, p.39, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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